Ice Cap Games and SMarcade team up to bring Kevin Smith's popular characters to the Apple App Store
SAN DIEGO, July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ice Cap Games today announced the launch of two iOS games in collaboration with SMarcade, a division of SModCo, featuring Jay & Silent Bob, the popular comic duo from the films of world-renowned director Kevin Smith. Jay & Silent Bob in Let Us Dance and Jay & Silent Bob in Too Fat to Fly were developed by Game Team One and Powerhouse Animation, and are currently available for download from the Apple App Store for both iPhone and iPad devices.
Jay & Silent Bob in Too Fat to Fly is a challenge-based physics game, where players assist Jay in launching Silent Bob through various environments such as a shopping mall and the streets of New Jersey. Through the completion of challenges, players have the opportunity to unlock special features and upgrades, including new costumes for Jay and Silent Bob. Players can also unlock the extra content by purchasing virtual coins within the game. In celebration of the games launch at San Diego Comic-Con, Too Fat To Fly also features special edition downloadable character skins of "Zombie Jay" & "Zombie Silent Bob." Too Fat to Fly is available for $0.99 on the iTunes App Store.
In Jay & Silent Bob in Let Us Dance, it's breakdance party time with two of New Jersey's favorite residents. Jay's got the moves, and Silent Bob brought his classic boom box full of funky tunes. It's up to you to keep the rhythm and help Jay prove to the rest of Jersey that he's King of breakers. Let Us Dance is a match-based rhythm game, challenging players to match colored-button presses to the beat of the music in an effort to prolong Jay's acrobatic dance moves. The game comes with three unique styles of music, and provides addictive gameplay like only the View Askewniverse can. Jay & Silent Bob in Let Us Dance is now available on the iTunes App Store for free.
"Ice Cap's mission is to produce high quality, premium titles for mobile and web platforms. We're excited to partner with SMarcade and help bring the popular characters Jay & Silent Bob to the mobile gaming market," said CEO Steve Felter. "These games are fun, beautifully crafted, and feel like a natural extension of the characters into a new medium."
SMarcade is a division of SModCo, a multi-platform production company that creates television, film, games, online-radio and digital content, all based around talk. Chatter. Lip-flap. The last one only sounds dirty.
"Now, I can finally play with myself and not get bad looks for it!" says Kevin Smith. "Thanks to SMarcade's Ken Plume, Ice Cap, Powerhouse and Game Team One, I'm no longer Too Fat To Fly."
Let Us Dance and Too Fat to Fly were built using GameSalad Creator, the popular game creation platform that enables developers to publish games to iOS, Android and HTML5. Both games are available now in the iTunes App Store. Let Us Dance is available for free while Too Fat to Fly is currently priced at $0.99.
ABOUT ICE CAP GAMES
Ice Cap Games is a publisher of premium mobile and web content, focused on top tier quality games that benefit from sophisticated distribution, monetization and optimization strategies. Ice Cap Games supports both established brands and independent developers by leveraging its proprietary distribution technologies and expertise in designing, distributing and monetizing successful mobile and web games.
ABOUT SMARCADE
Airlines-challenged indie film loudmouth Kevin Smith started a conversation back in 2007: a podcast named SModcast. Since then, the conversation has grown into a SMedia empire of sold out international live shows, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books.
The SModCo banner encompasses the SModcast Network of podcasts, SModcast Pictures, SModcast Internet Radio (SIR), SModcast Internet Television (SIT) and SMarcade. Current projects include: the Hulu Original series Spoilers; the AMC series, Comic Book Men; SModcast Internet Radio with 6 million downloads currently across the network every month; SModcast Pictures, in an exclusive distribution deal with Phase 4 Films, releasing up to twelve films per year under the newly created, "Kevin Smith's SModcast Pictures Presents" banner; SModcast Internet Television (SIT); TOUGH SH*T, the New York Times Best Seller, detailed the story of SModCo; and "Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie" is the first SModCo animated feature length film.