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[monoRAIL]

Heat Shield is my first iPhone game. I developed it using the Torque 2D engine from Garage Games. This is my first commercial game made with Torque, up to now I've been making freeware shmups.

Features:

• A unique combination of tilt and touch based gameplay not possible on any other platform.
• 10 Missions on different planets and moons in our solar system.
• 6 real spacecraft, each with unique handling.
• Tutorial mission teaches you how to control your craft and complete mission objectives.
• Online leaderboard.

Trailer on YouTube:





Screenshots:



Website:

http://blackmarketgames.com/heatshield

Click here to get Heat Shield on iTunes ($1.99)

[evktalo]

Looks really good, and I like the subject matter. May your game prosper! How was the development experience with Torque 2D + iPhone?

--Eino

[moi]

Wow , awesome concept and graphics. I would buy this game ASAP if I had an iphone.
Well done man

[Lynx]

Pretty sharp!  I'm curious about how it felt to develop with Torque 2D as well.  I played with the 3D engine once a long time ago and felt it was too complex for my skill level at the time.

[monoRAIL]

I found developing an iPhone game with Torque to be quite difficult - not because Torque is hard to use, but because it's not really optimized for iPhone and so the performance is not good yet. I was originally going to port Go Beryllium to iPhone, you can see how far I got in this video:





As you can see the framerate was less than stellar. My only options at that stage were to remove lots of bullets and enemies (no way), convert 90% of my script to C to speed up the game (not an easy option as I'm not an experienced programmer) or switch to a new game design that would run faster on iPhone, so I picked the third option.

[Lynx]

Ah, the old performance bug-a-boo!  Did you use Torque2D's LUA for the script then?

No iPhone here, otherwise I'd check it out.

[AdamAtomic]

Buying this tonight, looks cool!  Needs more shakeycam.

[Kneecaps]

A definite purchase from me!  Not only because it's a cool concept with (seemingly) great execution, but because you made friggin' Go Beryllium (which I can only beat on easy as of now).

[monoRAIL]

Lynx - Torque uses its own scripting language - Torquescript, not Lua. It's a C like language with some limited object orientation built in. My entire game is written in script. To get better performance you can convert parts of your game to C, but I just didn't have the time, or the knowledge to do that this time around.

AdamAtomic - camera shake was on my wishlist - but it turned out to be harder to implement than I'd anticipated so it got dropped.

Kneecaps - glad you like the concept :-) And speaking of Go Beryllium, some freak called Bill has scored 1557, that's almost 400 points above everyone else. I've no idea how he did it. http://cokane.com/games/beryllium/highscores.php