Bearbushkas has been released today for iPads worldwide. The game is a local multiplayer experience where up to four players battle each other on one iPad; each controlling a Soviet bear cosmonaut in a matroshka-shaped spaceship armed with missiles and lasers. Multiplayer matches are action-packed, intense and over in a few minutes. Bearbushkas is available in English for only 1.99 €/$.
About the game: Welcome to Russian Bear space! Добро пожаловат! We have vodka, we have beautiful space ships. And we love to fight! Join us, choose a pilot, mount a ship and battle up to three bear brothers in tight ship-to-ship matches. We are all comrades here but a little fair competition can’t hurt, eh?
Gameplay description:
The basic mission of every player is simple: Shoot all enemies! But instead of destroying another ship directly, a shot places a target marker on it, then a missile leaves the base to chase the marked spaceship. Players always have to try to strike a balance between attacking and getting rid of enemy missiles chasing them. Each player has a button for steering left and a button for steering right in his corner of the iPad screen. Pressing both buttons at once means “shoot”. That’s it. Great fun, yet simple as throwing an empty vodka bottle at a brick wall.
Features:
•Designed from the ground up for local multiplayer fun
•Up to four players on one iPad simultaneously
•Game design and controls tailored for iPad
•Beautiful hand-drawn cartoon graphics
•Bears dancing the Kozachok
•Players can practice solo against the AI
•Three uniquely designed scenarios
•Dozens of characters and special items
“We love local multiplayer games, having had so much fun in our childhood with Bomberman or splitscreen Mario Kart. We feel this experience has been largely replaced by online multiplayer these days, so we decided to go for this niche with Bearbushkas,” says Tobias Lott. “Our goal was to design a game that brings the spirit of those classics to the iPad but works perfectly with touch controls.”