Hungarian game developer Private Moon Studios released their award-winning FMV adventure game Yoomurjak’s Ring for iOS devices. The title is a point-and-click interactive-movie adventure, first published internationally for PC in 2009. The slightly different iPad and iPhone versions are now available in English on the AppStore.
Yoomurjak’s Ring was the first game in the developer’s Jonathan Hunt Adventures series about an American journalist investigating mysterious events in the past. The game is set in a picturesque Hungarian town called Eger, allowing a virtual stroll in the historical town center with a 360-degree view built of over 800 panoramic photographs. This feature has been fully preserved in the iOS versions.
In porting the game to iOS, it had been a priority to keep the intriguing storyline, the atmosphere and all the challenging puzzles, while reducing game size. This was achieved by some simplification, such as streamlined footage and dialog system eliminating the original Hungarian voice. At the same time, apart from the enhanced resolution, new features in the iOS versions are easy-to-use interfaces, an optional tutorial and a hintbook to make gameplay easier and attractive to a broader audience.
The original PC game received a number of awards in its homeland, including a first prize in interactive storytelling. Private Moon Studios released Yoomurjak’s Ring iOS after a two-year work on the second PC sequel of Jonathan Hunt Adventures: MIAZMA or the Devil’s Stone (in Hungarian). They have plans to create further sequels based on the series of Jonathan Hunt stories, co-authored by game developer Pierrot (Tamás Z. Marosi).