The just-released casual space game, Project 72, is the result of what four guys from Venice California were able to accomplish in as little as 72 hours, and surprisingly, the results are quite impressive.
As the story goes, the guys at Dogtown Studios, a subdivision of Moyo Studios, the publisher of quite a few iPhone apps, sat down to discuss what project they should take on next. At first they came up with challenging themselves to make an iPhone game in as little as seven days, but since they had previous game development experience, they decided to try and accomplish the feat in only three days, or 72 hours.
Project 72 officially started at 8:00 PM on Tuesday, January 5th and finished up on Friday, January 8th at 8:00 PM. The team was able to complete and submit the game in the allotted amount of time, and what you see in the App Store is the result. But unlike most games of this time limited nature, Project 72 is rather polished and fun.
Project 72 will have you guiding a rocket ship through space in order to go the furthest distance without running out of fuel or getting sucked into a black hole. The environment contains asteroids, UFOs, satellites, and space debris, all of which can slow you down and even take down your ship, so you must try to avoid them at all costs while collecting rocket fuel. Power-ups such as shields and nitro boosters are scattered around space to aid you in your mission as well.
The game is entirely accelerometer controlled, so tilting your device from side to side simply steers your ship. The game also features an online leader board to compare your distances with the rest of the world.
Project 72 is now available in the App Store for $.99.
To have a chance at winning a promo code for Project 72, simply hit that green retweet bottom near the bottom of this page or retweet this post from your favorite Twitter app before 11:59 PM PDT tomorrow night (January 26th). We will then search the Twitterverse for all of the retweets and randomly choose a lucky winner. The winner will be notified via Twitter, so please be sure to follow us so we can send you your promo code via a direct message.
Non-Twitter users and those of you who want to increase your odds of winning can leave a relevant comment below before 11:59 PM PDT tomorrow tonight to have a chance at winning the other Project 72 promo code.
Feel free to participate in the giveaway via either or both methods. If you end up winning multiple promo codes, just give one away to a friend or co-worker. This giveaway is only open to U.S. iTunes account users.
I’d like a copy!
They finished the game in just 4 days? Now that’s what I call good developers. I think they really outdid themselves with this game. It looks cool.
Impressive. Like to see a review on this soon.
Also what is this, seventh giveaway so far this week? D:
It is quite impressive to finish an app this fast with according to appadivce, good quality gameplay. I would love to try it out
looks like fun!
It sure looks fun. I hope I win the promo!
I would like a promo code for this app, it looks pretty interesting. I think that it’s pretty cool that your having that high score contest too! wish I could participate, oh well.
Thanks for the comments!
Check out the Project 72 high score contest where you can win $1000 and custom T-shirts.
http://www.dogtownstudios.com/contest
/Rasmus
A chance for a free game and 1000 bucks!
By the way, retweet says tweet too long.
Take out the “RT @appadvice” from the beginning.
pick me!
Awesome. I’m about to start building my first iPhone game … so games like this really inspire me. Thanks for the post. I’d love to win a promo code.
neat
i would like a promo code! this game looks very interesting and great for 72 hrs!
I love this site I want that code so badly
all that in 72 hours is an AMAZING feat!
Nice gay i woder how addictive is I WAnt that app
Thanks for the good reviews AppAdvice!
thanks for the chance to win!
I cant wait to try this game it looks really cool!
Thanks for the good review it REALLY want to try this utility!
Thanks to the DEV and AppAdvice for such a great site! I would love a chance to try this game.
Yay I should make a game called project 48
I retweeted for comp, i removed the word “can” at the start to make it short enough.
nice game
Sounds like a fun project. I wonder if they had filmed the entire process to see if they had previously thought of the idea/mechanics/etc of the game or not.
@Harrison Ford: 4 days = 96 hours. This was completed in 72 hours, or 3 days. Even more impressive.
I did a game called Project 1. Didn’t go too far as people complained about seeing only the game title splash screen and no gameplay content. Hey, what do you expect for one hour’s worth of work? I am not EA!
Game me, plz!
So far, the reviews at the App Store are all five star. I might buy it if I doesn’t win. Really amazing they could make that game in only 72 hours!
Seems like developers are really starting to experiment with the time limit on making apps. First it was Super Ramen Brothers, now this! Awesome! I’m all for it!
This game looks pretty good there’s no way I could make a game that good in that amount of time. And of course I would love to win a copy.
There should be a competition for best game developed in the least amount of time.
fly it all the way here to the UK!
I’m just curious what an ambitious dev team can come up with in 72 hours. I’d love to win a copy.
The game look realy polish for it only taking an 72 hours to make
let me have one, please!
I’m just fascinated by the game, 72 hours is such a short amount of game and the game looks like it is so polished. It takes a great developer to accomplish a great game and an even better one to complete it in 72 hours. Virtual pat on the back to the developers.
I love this little game!
Sorry I couldn’t wait for the promocode, its like doodle jump but better, I cant put it down – HELP!
Me please