FTUE: Futurama: Game of Drones

hello and welcome to Pocket Gamer busies youtube channel my name is John Jordan and today we're doing our first time user experience play this is let me play a game for the first time thus it being the first time user experience that's kind of gives it away really and so the game we're looking at today is the new game from Luger two-wheelers a German developer best known for some match three games diamond dash being one of them some of the other games hidden hidden object games as well but I'm the game looking at now as we can see here is a match game but as we can see it's a little bit different looking like that's more than 3 be matching their match for game as you can see from the rest of the screen it is uses the future are my character so futurama was the animated series that the creator of The Simpsons Matt growling made after he made the symptoms not quite success was the simpsons but i'm like a bit more cult i would i would guess it's a described as

so anyway we'll swap these drones to do our match for and there we go so this is obvious very much the tutorial we're not even a proper kind of gameplay mode really they're in this car little kind of widdle sandboxie thing max group to forward rent okay so we get the idea with matching groups of four favorite more moves in simulation that's quite a nice way of doing the tutorial so the tutorial is kind of set up to these you're not playing the game but this is a tutorial this one's a little simulation so there we go right in and we have the Sparky little characteristics and fries brains this is fri obviously i guess the interesting thing with futurama is using it to make a game is how strong is it is a brand for people they actually is it globally and Mopsy i guess in North America in Europe there are certain group of people who've watched it i can't say i watch loads them i have watched some of them

or i can remember who fry and bender and the other people are i'm sure i'll be told where they are okay toxic benders the star ruin his knee crazy crazy robot foul mouth drunkard as all robot should be ok so I think when people said there's going to be futurama game everyone was very excited when it was the head it was a match full game they were a little less excited wonder how that was going to work knowing a little bit about how rural works i spent a lot of time this was not time prototyping games so they've had I think a few different not attempt is wrong word but they designed a few different games using the futurama IP so they probably tried many different types of the game genre types and they come up with match this match for us being the one that seems to work best it's very difficult when you have an IP there's Austin from ways you could do it I mean obviously the simpsons has been that

kind of like a kind of almost like a city builder and very similar to the family guy has a very similar game iea there's the simpsons and a fox and tiny code through the family guy game and they've been pretty successful but that would it's not the kind of game we would make at least they're kind of that i guess a little bit built their reputation on being quite creative so let's see how so we're going to go through this get a bit more tutorial izing again swap the line drone deliver line home what we're doing either so that's somewhat can walk a powerup okay so match five drones to get them so we kind of seeing this and tell me what to do cuz I'm stupid okay so got the line drom so oh now that one is going to get you to run cattle catchphrase so what can i do if i do that one is that going to take everything out here there we go so we could kind of start to see that's

not match for is it okay so i'll do that one where's the match ball it was difficult to do Oh obviously in tutorials like this you shouldn't be made to look too stupid especially when your video in them there's not as much for laying it that's me 50 little line so oh there we go to the big one wasn't Wow okay delivery complete so the whole point of future army then the characters being a intergalactic delivery company that's why it's all but delivering the elk three stars that's thanks down to this does the rovio three storing everything naughty the one thing you're getting not

getting here is the sound which is look will be IP driven I'm sure so interesting we go into this I'm going to look at you the UI is kind of interesting so we can see a bit about there's a if you look down the bottom there's a Facebook Connect so we can use that but everyone uses Facebook to them to kind of get their friends involved in look at high schools and what kind of stuff and also the Select booster at the moment this is so you have to get to a certain level mini level 38 level 16 these boosters which which all wrong Carlos Fandango so we get that something kind of bid to build up on we can see if it a target and the work delivers no right there a top there's the kind of traditional way that it's always been with with match three games there's a life so about five lives if I can't complete a mission in the set amount of moves a whole loser life and then there's this soft currency or maybe hard currency let's have a look these don't work because I'm not know it's grayed

out that's not not flee that is equally not an available for me but okay normally spend money to buy some more things boosters and suchlike create six matches rip a bomb drone SWAT the bond around 42 explodes it to the reason and if it just blows everything up around it okay it makes sense so I guess we can't be kind of seeing um how will goes try to do something a bit different with match 3 I mean I guess candy crush and all those cut you know those games have created a massive audience people who know that do a certain type of match 3 in so it's quite hard to innovate and obviously kind of the powerup things are the things you innovate on so how you can do that in it in not so much was it I me use the pair up boom-boom-boom-boom-boom making me look really good wonder if good news

everyone's gonna start to get bit boring huh yeah we get a clear the campaign boom boom boom so I get my three stars again makes it look easy isn't it more bender so you go let's do level for it to play too many more of these and kind of know what the situation is going to be like seven drain scratch efficient down so the guess it's get it interesting that getting this tutorial it's kind of going through these different power-ups to reach to everything go okay so it's going to take everything out of that color on it on the map where are we now come on me hand

and that one obviously though in this situation very much to learn the tutorial it seemed very easy I guess another interesting thing to see will be where the people who like futurama are the kind of people we maybe everyone does like match match games it's kind of an easy thing to do it's been you know there's been the casual match stuff like candy crush and has been the more hardcore like the puzzle quest types of putting a match

meaning lot of games would put the kind of matching and dynamic in with RPGs and such like I just guess the biggest thing i think we all know wiggle put together a game they know and then stare match game to just be whether the match dynamic works well with the audience that likes and futurama that's the big thing too for them to kind of a not sure worry about but that's the big kind of unknown in this case so i think we'll leave it there in terms of this being our first music spiritual not played gonna play the whole game week I've seen theme what's going on this in the basics we've seen pretty polished as we'd expect from Wooga you know really nice flow really nice UI from what the same producers of the license so and I could make good match game much as we can tell from playing four levels mostly a lot of it comes down to when you're playing level 101 and whether you're still excited to play level hundred and two but i'm saying what i'm working for that for that and we'll obviously keep playing the game and get a bit further

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