BADLAND 2 ARRIVES TO ANDROID!

Since the end of last year, when BADLAND 2 was first unveiled on iOS, the epic sequel has been one of the most awaited mobile games for the Android users. Now, Frogmind & Cheetah Mobile have together made the expectation a reality by officially launching BADLAND 2 on Android! This game keeps everything you loved about the first BADLAND and steps it up to the next level with even more stunning graphics, awesome new features and more engaging gameplay. And it’s now available for FREE on the Google Play Store!

Google Play link: Download BADLAND 2 for FREE

In BADLAND 2, players are thrown into Jungle, Frozen, Inferno, and Infinity, which are different periods of time within the BADLAND world. You are still able to clone your character, change its size, and manipulate its speed. This time you also get to transform into a rolling ball and survive many new elements such as liquids, flames, frost, magma and also AI characters. One of the key differences from the first BADLAND is that the sequel allows you to fly & scroll into all four directions for a more explorative, immersive and adventurous gaming experience.

The model is very similar to the Android version of the first BADLAND: free to download + you can unlock the game with a single purchase of $3.99 / 3.99€ / 2.99£ or you can play without paying by watching some ads. There is no energy bar or in-game currency.

So, DOWNLOAD the game now and begin your EPIC JOURNEY!

As always, we are more than happy to hear all your feedback to keep improving the game with new content and features.

BADLAND 2 out now on iOS App Store!

BADLAND 2 is out now on iOS App Store!

The Sequel to Apple’s 2013 iPad Game of the Year Expands the Series in All Directions With New Features

 
App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/badland-­‐2/id1007120869

We are happy here at Frogmind to announce that our secret project, BADLAND 2, was just minutes ago released on iOS App Store!

The side-­scrolling, action‐adventure sequel grows on the award-­winning world of BADLAND in even more stunning beauty with levels that extend and scroll in all directions. Fly and survive through new elements, such as liquids, flamethrowers, frost, magma, water and searing light. Fall down deadly rifts, fly to any direction, and race and jump along the surfaces to safety as an all-new charming, rolling character. The game’s immersive audio design and high-­quality, atmospheric visuals pull players into a truly stunning world of beauty, wonder and danger.

BADLAND 2 features a single-­player campaign with unique, physics‐based challenges, as well as online stages for competing against friends in seasonal, globally ranked, asynchronous multiplayer events. More content for both modes is coming soon after launch through free updates. As with the first BADLAND, which has been updated for dozens of times, the launch is just the beginning.

We have fine-tuned the intuitive, easy-to‐grasp controls of BADLAND 2 for precise manoeuvring amidst the traps and puzzles on the journey. We have also added support for 3D Touch on iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, allowing for incredibly accurate touch sensitivity while flying. Home screen quick actions allow fast access to single-­‐player and online modes, and iCloud progress synchronization is available across linked iOS devices.

BADLAND 2 is out now on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices for $4.99 / 4.99€ / 3.99£ on the App Store.

As always, we are more than happy to hear all your feedback to keep improving the game with new content and features.

App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/badland-­‐2/id1007120869

 

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition Available on Seven New Platforms

The Clones have been released onto Xbox One, PS4, PC/Mac/Linux (through Steam), PS3 & PSVita. Wii U is coming in July. Check out the launch trailer below:

The GOTY Edition builds on the strengths of original game with revamped controls, lots of content, local multiplayer awesomeness for up-to-4 players and with enhanced Full-HD visuals. Experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before – redesigned for consoles & PC.

The GOTY Edition in a nutshell:
– Revamped controls using analog stick and buttons. Full directional control over your character(s).
– Lots of content: 10 to 15 hours and 100 levels of single-player story, 100 co-op levels, 17 multiplayer versus levels.
– Enhanced Full-HD visuals
– All versions support up-to-four-players on a local multiplayer awesomeness. Play the whole story through together with your friends and family or see who’s the last Clone standing in the multiplayer versus mode!
– PlayStation versions support Cross-Buy (single purchase for all 3 platforms) and Cross-Save (game progress is synched between the PS3™, PS4™ and PS Vita versions)

Check out some of the reviews:
TrueAchievements.com – “Contains hours of fun” (8 / 10)
GamingTrend.com – “The multiplayer mode is fantastic” (8 / 10)
WeGotThisCovered.com – “Deliciously difficult” (8 / 10)
SpieleTipps.de – “Highly recommendable” (85 / 100 & the Joystick Award)
IGN Hungary – “Impressive” (9 / 10)
NoContinuesMedia.com – “Perfect for the Vita” (9 / 10)
WhatsYourTagBlog – “Awesome!” (8.5 / 10)
Games969.com – “Challenging, fun and darn addictive” (9.5 / 10)
Video – Rooster Teeth shows how to play co-op!

Clones have a tough time in their natural habitat as you can see from this documentary (shot within the actual BADLAND forests):

So be sure to check the game out and join to #SaveTheClones. They need your help!

For the latest news, check out & follow on the BADLAND’s Facebook page.
If you are a Steam user, get the game from Steam .

Badland – Game of the Year Edition

Hi everyone!

Today we have B I G news for an indie studio: We are bringing BADLAND to eight new platforms! BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition will bring the game with improvements onto PS4, Xbox One, Windows, Mac, Linux (through Steam), Wii U, PS Vita and PS3. So a pretty EPIC console & Steam launch is coming this Spring!

When BADLAND was initially released in 2013 on iPad, our goal was to create a console-quality game for tablets. Frogmind was just a team of two at the time, without the resources to enter the console market, but we always dreamed of bringing BADLAND also to consoles and Steam. Thanks to its success on tablets we can finally make that dream reality in scale. Feels good to be able to tell all the fans who have asked for a specific console/Steam version that it is coming soon.

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition is redesigned for the consoles and Steam. It builds on the beautiful, hand-painted graphics of the original with enhanced Full-HD visuals. But the biggest change is the gameplay. We knew that one button control would not be the optimal experience for consoles or Steam. We tested several alternatives and ended up expanding the controls with the analog stick and triggers. The Steam version supports both using controllers and/or keyboard (with multiple keys). With the new controls, the player has a lot more freedom – he can fly backwards and control the speed of his flying. This type of control felt best to us but it broke a lot of puzzles and levels that depended on the player to be able to do less. The solution was to modify every level in the game to accommodate the more expressive control scheme and that’s what we ended up doing. It wasn’t the easiest thing but it needed to be done and it was worth it. The console and Steam versions feels very much at home on the consoles. The multiplayer mode suits living room playing really well with multiple controllers and it feels great to be able to be more tactical in it with the new controls.

The Game of the Year Edition features over 4 times more content than the original did when it was launched. It has over 15 hours and 100 levels of single-player story content and 100 co-op and 27 multiplayer deathmatch stages in an up-to-four-person local multiplayer mode. And did I mention that it looks awesome from a large TV and feels very much at home on the platform. If you saw the console/Steam version first, you would not suspect that it wasn’t initially made for them.


   

We have joined forces with two other indie studios to bring about the ambitious eight platform launch. Blitworks, an awesome studio behind bringing Fez, Spelunky and Bastion among others onto new console platforms is helping on the console side and Frozenbyte, the studio behind the beautiful Trine series, is helping with QA, publishing and marketing. Together, we’ll bring the new line-up out in time and in awesome quality.

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition will be released in Spring 2015, exact date and price are to be announced later. For the latest BADLAND news, please visit www.badlandgame.com, or follow along on BADLAND’s Facebook page , where you can enter to win exclusive prizes during our launch announcement campaign.

If you are a Steam user, check out the game’s preview page on Steam and be sure to keep posted (+ get an awesome feeling by showing your support) by following the game / adding it to your wish list.

More info

http://www.badlandgame.com/Badland_new_platforms_announcement_Jan29th.docx
http://www.badlandgame.com/Badland_new_platforms_announcement_Jan29th.pdf

BADLAND Celebrates 20 Million Players with ‘DAYDREAM’ Update

Our Game of the Year -winning atmospheric hit game, BADLAND, is celebrating Christmas and its 20 MILLIONTH player (please see the infographics below) with a brand new “DAYDREAM’ level update (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiEf2NzBxMw&hd=1). The update is available for all mobile platforms: App Store, Android, Windows Phone & BlackBerry.

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Featuring, 10 new single player levels, 30 new missions and 5 new achievements- the ‘DAYDREAM’ pack also includes SNORF’s (one of the multiplayer characters in BADLAND) journey through some of the more bizarre parts of BADLAND. It brings the number of single player levels in BADLAND to a FULL 100 LEVELS!

In wishing our fans the happiest of holidays, the new DAYDREAM content is FREE on the App Store for a limited time and at launch discount on Android.

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Badland players of the top 10 countries:

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2015 will be the most epic BADLAND year yet and is already far in the making as we are working on multiple BADLAND games! Stay tuned for more BADLAND news!

And if you haven’t yet,
Download BADLAND:
App Store
Google Play
Windows Phone Store
Amazon Appstore
BlackBerry World

Let me introduce you to Chico Mello, one of the best BADLAND players in the universe!

Life is good sometimes and occasionally we find top notch BADLAND players who really put their mind and soul to it. We got a chance to interview Chico Mello a.k.a “<|-|!<0” , the #1 player in the world with 3282 clones saved.

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Doomsday Evil level played by Chico Mello

Ok lets start this!

1. Tell me something about yourself?
I’m from Brazil and I’m 24 years old.

2. How did you hear about Badland?
Saw it on Apple Store and it was Apple’s birthday or something so I was able to download it for free.

3. How long have you been playing Badland?
I’m not sure about this one, but it’s definitely for more than a year.

4. Favorite level?
I love them all, but if I have to choose one I would say “Shields”

5. What feature would you like to add to Badland?
I always loved the idea of playing the multiplayer online, not on the same device. But I know that’s almost impossible due to the amount of information Badland levels have and it would be very hard to keep things in sync, so more levels is the only thing I can think about since the game is perfect. Maybe a different powerup or levels with water on it. A kind of “boss” would be cool too, a living creature of some kind, maybe the crazy bunny that we see on the background.

6. Hardest achievement?
“God Status” – Complete the level Flaw with the chained character. Or completing all levels with one try.

7. Hardest one try?
EVIL

8. Hardest mission?
I will go with “Collect all powerups on Accelerator”

9. Any special magic trick you used to beat those hard Doomsday levels
through? Do you have some kind of a training program to beat those hard
Doomsday levels? :)
No training, just getting use to controls sensitivity and the level itself, it gets easier each time. (Not easy only easier)

10. Do you play Multiplayer mode or Co-Op mode? If you do, what was the funniest thing that happened?
I did but alone, in what Lunartic like to call “2 Thumb Madness”. So the funniest thing is the actual gameplay with two fingers, your brain goes crazy and sometimes you confuse left with right.

11. Your tips to other players?
Don’t give up, Badland is all about perseverance. You have to be prepared to die in the end of a level, right when you were about to complete a mission or save a lot of clones, and being able to start over and overcome frustration.
And also information, which you can find at badland.gamerz.co. I discovered some things there that took the game to a whole new level.

12. You are awesome at Badland! What is your secret?
Love, I just love Badland and saving clones.

13. Greetings to the Badland team
Congratulations to you all for creating not only one of the best, most creative game of all times, but also for creating art. I can’t even begin to understand how the ideas for creating the levels come to your awesome minds, it seems like you guys had a little visit on the future and come back with those fresh ideas and beautiful creations. I just hope you are all working on more even if you all deserve vacation for a lifetime already.

Thanks Chico Mello and good luck for your further struggles with BADLAND. May the Clones be with you!

BADLAND goes COOP, Doomsday and turns one year old

Wow. Lots of stuff happened since last blog post. I guess that has kept us too busy to update this blog. Our apologies for the lack of updates. We are totally alive and hands full of new stuff related to BADLAND!

Latest update, update number #15, brought the awesome cooperative mode to BADLAND. Now you can play the modified Day I levels together with your friends similar to the regular multiplayer. Only this time you are not playing against but for the common good.

COOP in action:

The update before in April brought the Doomsday Level pack with 10 hardcore levels. These were designed especially for our hardcore level loving fans. April 4th was also the first anniversary of BADLAND. Awesome year behind, and even more awesome year ahead of us. Exciting times!

Doomsday levels in action:

BADLAND has also received a lot of new awards and nominations. To name a few, BADLAND won the Grand Prix award in IMGA, best tablet game in the Webby Awards, Best Mobile Game in the Satellite Awards and received three nominations in the BAFTA. And finally, one of the coolest award BADLAND received during the past six months was the App Store iPad Game of the Year 2013 by Apple itself.

Btw, lots of exciting new things happening in the BADLAND world as well. Too early to talk at this point still. Stay tuned :)

BADLAND Now Available on Android With a Generous Free-To-Play Model

BADLAND is out on Google Play for Android phones and tablets. With 80 levels of single player action and 21 levels of local multiplayer, it now offers an equally solid amount of entertainment also for the Android players.

Get it!

BADLAND for Android is the first version of the game to use a friendly, flexible free-to-play model. The player can choose to play the first 40 levels for free, with no commitment other than to watch a video trailer from time to time. The free content also includes four multiplayer levels. However, there are various ways to purchase additional content in the game. Making any of the purchases removes also all ads:

1) Premium pack. Full unlock of all content and features.
2) “Day II” pack. The second 40 levels of the game.
3) Multiplayer. 17 more multiplayer levels and 3 multiplayer characters.
4) No ads. Removes all ads from the game.

There is also a link to a ‘coming soon’ online store in the game. The shop will open the second week of December and players will then be able to order real world BADLAND goods such as phone cases, T-shirts and posters.

A Kindle version of BADLAND is also coming soon. Keep up with the latest good news from BADLAND by following the game on Facebook www.facebook.com/badlandgame and Twitter www.twitter.com/BadlandGame.

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Badland - Day II Night
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BADLAND Halloween update and competition

BADLAND just received a Halloween update with a Halloween themed multiplayer characters and a brand new multiplayer level!

The update is completely free so just go to App Store or BlackBerry World and download the update:

We also started a Halloween competition where you can go crazy playing the multiplayer mode with your friends. Check it out at our Facebook page.
BADLAND - Halloween competition

BADLAND out now on BlackBerry World + an introduction!

BADLAND is now available on Blackberry World!

BlackBerry Z10, Z30, Q5 and Q10 users can now join the journey and play through all the 70 hauntingly atmospheric levels of Badland.

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Badland on BlackBerry Z10

It is thrilling to get the game in front of new users. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Feel free to give us any feedback about anything.

Many of you have been asking also about the Android version. It is getting closer every day. We are hard at work on making it happen rather sooner than later but there is no specific date yet.

I would also like to take this opportunity to personally greet all of you Badlanders and introduce myself. I just joined the two brilliant guys of Frogmind. I will be helping them on the operational and marketing side and ensuring they have more time to work on their art, which is making the games. One of the reasons I’m here is also so that we as Frogmind can spend more time communicating with all of you. I’m hoping we get a good dialog going and can add more value for you also through supporting the games on the social media side. Please join us on the Frogmind journey, which is only in the beginning!

Thanks for all your awesome support and feedback!

Cheers,
Teemu Mäki-Patola
COO & CMO / Frogmind

Ps: Don’t forget to join the second prize winning campaign on our Facebook page starting tonight! Like BADLAND at www.facebook.com/badlandgame for more details.