For the last five years TerrorBull Games have published board games - specifically satirical and subversive board games. Last year we met a French vegan anarchist and artificial intelligence specialist and things took a turn. David Partouche suggested we make an iPhone version of our international cult hit 'War on Terror'. We chuckled because programmers had approached us before with the idea but then realized it was a bit too difficult, telling us it just wasn't possible. I'm pleased to say David has just proven those other programmers it can be done.
On the 25th November 2011 we launched War on Terror the app. Forbes tempted fate a few days prior to this by publishing the article 'Will Apple Ban The 'War On Terror; iPhone Game?'. But so far, so good (just to clarify, this means we haven't been banned yet). This little electronic baby of ours has been a joy to work on, we've put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it and I hope it shows.
The game is an absurdly addictive and wickedly satirical strategy game of global liberation. Imagine a darkly comedic alliance between Risk, Monopoly and Settlers of Catan and you're halfway there.
Our good friend Rob Taliesin Owen created the amazing music and all the sound effects which bounce beautifully around in your skull. And as a special treat, as if Rob's music wasn't enough, we managed to cap in hand, crowd fund cash for licensing a song by Jarvis Cocker. So you get a bit of Jarvis too.
Andrew Sheerin , the brains behind the whole operation, is not only the designer of the game itself and all of it's addictive game play, his legendary work load extends to graphic designer, video maker, writer of wit within the game and all round publishing machine. He's looking forward to some sleep, I think sometime next year. Maybe. It was a joy for me to see my illustrations boing around the screen and add an inky element to the game. It was great to work on drawings knowing they would be animated which I hadn't done before. A particularly rewarding set of illustrations went to form the 'Torture School' where I had my wicked way with Andrew, David and myself in a credit page like no other I've seen. If you've got an iPhone and get to play it, be nice to us. Within reason. Andrew even did all the colouring in of my drawings, which I don't usually let others do. Trust is a beautiful thing. The crazy man says he's simply a pixel pusher, everybody who works with him knows better than this. and knows no one better to know.
If you fancy you can watch the teaser trailer here, and our official trailer here. It's even got a real life horse in it. So it's a work of art in itself. Fellini would be proud of that trailer. And here's our TerrorBull Games web page with a few more details to put you off the game. But if you've got this far, why not just go to the Apple store and buy the thing? Terror has never been so globally available.
