Description
GoatUp is easily the best goat-related platform game on iOS.
Your goal is to raise a family - as high as you can! Kiss billy goats and eat grass to get kids. Keep jumping to lead your flock as high as you can.
On the way you'll encounter various enemies, pass through zones inspired by the history of platform gaming, and collect hundreds of unique bonus items.
This simple and fun game will keep you coming back for one more go. Controls are, as usual for Llamasoft games, amongst the best on iOS and offer excellent touchscreen controls for left or right handers, or tilt-and-touch controls, selectable as you prefer.
GoatUp is OpenFeint enabled and a global leaderboard is maintained for both OpenFeint and GameCenter.
What's New in Version 1.011
Fixes rare bug that could give infinite invincibility.
Control improvements.
Customer Reviews
Stark raving genius
GoatUp is Llamasoft’s first ever platform game, is arguably their most accomplished iOS title to date, and is just outrageously good fun.
I loved some of the old 8-bit platform games on the C64, and have also been a long-time fan of Jeff Minter’s work, but given Minter’s often stated disdain for the genre the chance of combining the too seemed rather slim. Yet here it is. It could have been made just for me.
Its a universal app with alternative controls that suite both iPhone/iPod and iPad, and which you use to control a mummy goat. If you kiss a billy goat, and then eat some grass, you’ll get a kid (along with a dreadful-in-a-good-way Minter pun), which will then follow you around. These can occasionally prevent you from dying (you loose a kid if you bash into an enemy, rather than killing yourself), and can be used to knock enemies off their platforms. It does make sense when you play it, honestly!
Once the basic mechanic is established GoatUp then mucks around with it - allowing you turn the tables on enemies for short periods of time, introducing collapsing platforms, exploding bridges, magic mushrooms that play havoc in a typically Minteresque way the visuals and so on.
Along the way GoatUp makes references to many of the classics of the platform genre - Canyon Climber, Miner 2049er, Manic Miner (the pastiche of Manic Miner Spectrum soundtrack made me laugh so hard I lost all my goats the first time I saw it) and so on. As such the game has much more variety than Doodle Jump, for instance. It also avoids the pixel perfect positioning that defines many platform games in favor of sheer exuberant fun.
Stark raving genius basically. I suspect I shall be intermittently playing it for as long as I have a functioning iThing.
Addictive, fun and well tuned
My first Llamasoft game was GridRunner for the VIC and down the years I've played many of their games. I've not loved all of them (Mama Llama I'm looking at you) but there have been some out and out gems like Ancipital and Batalyx.
GoatUp is the first iOS Llamasoft game that has really clicked with me (my middle aged eyes and reflexes struggling with the shooters). The controls are perfectly set up, the tilt and touch for the iPod is perfect, not once have I felt that the game's controls were responsible for my death. I think this is what you get from a game written by a coder with decades of experience.
The game itself is addictive, initially I thought I'd put it away quickly as I struggled to get through the first level, but sticking with it I'm getting much better at it and seeing the variety that later levels brings does make you want to have another go.
Although the graphics are definitely old-school, they are well done with the swelling abdomen of your mother goat a nice touch.
Definitely swallowing too much of my time now and well worth the price. If you've failed to get on with Llamasoft's other games give this a go, it's different and really well-executed.
Crazy Retro Magic
If you are familiar with any of the classic home computer games from the eighties then there is probably a reference to it I. This crazy fast action jumper.
This is no platformer in the traditional sense of the word, this is a jump fest with magical sounds that are as mesmerising as classic sprites.
Reminds me of a Manic Miner v Nebulus with a indiscrete affair with Chuckie Egg. Yet with all the old school homages we have a truly original mix of jumping, collecting, high score teasing, colour fest!
Get it if you remember any of the above games, the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 or if you just want fun arcade style gameplay without the fuss but with all the style!
- £1.49
- Category: Games
- Updated: 17 September 2011
- Version: 1.011
- Size: 9.9 MB
- Language: English
- Developer: Llamasoft Ltd
- © (c) 2011 Llamasoft Ltd.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
