Advanced Circuits

French studio follow up Viking Invasion with new puzzler.

News by GamesIndustry.biz Contributor

Published on May 20, 2010

Welcome aboard! Following the success of Viking Invasion on Nintendo DSiWareTM, BiP media is proud to announce the release of its second game, Advanced Circuits. It will be exclusively distributed on Nintendo’s handheld online shop. Whether you’re on a train, a car or a tank – are you ready to face a new challenge?

Established in 2004, BiP media is a French studio specialized in family games. In their second creation for Nintendo DSiWare™, you can test your skills of deduction in a completely original way! Advanced Circuits is a virtual board game in which you literally have to find a way to solve puzzles. Your goal is to connect the whole set of squares by drawing up track pieces with your Nintendo DS stylus. In order to give you a head start, some of them are already shown on the board at the beginning of each round.

Complete the circuits

Rules may sound simple, but the challenge is much tougher! There is only one solution to each puzzle. Solving puzzles equals to “the faster, the better”: you get higher scores if you complete the circuits in no time! In addition, the board gets bigger as you progress in the game. That means the first 4x4 game board you will come across is not likely to lie around… and may turn into a 144-squares board in the end!

The title offers two different modes for a long-lasting game experience, as well as other useful content:

• Challenge mode: 60 predefined game boards of increasing difficulty;

• Free Play mode: select the game board size and practice on any number of randomly-generated puzzles;

• 72 awards to unlock;

• Other features such as a tutorial, hints & tips, and even the solution if you feel like giving up!

Advanced Circuits is planned to hit digital shelves on May 24th 2010. The European release will follow shortly afterwards. If you feel curious, a trailer and a demo version are already available on BiP media official website:

www.bip-media.com/advanced-circuits

ABOUT THE GAME

Genre: Puzzle Game

Platform: Nintendo DSiWare™

Number of players: 1

Price: 200 Nintendo Points™

Publisher: BiP Media

Developer: BiP Media

Release date: May 24th (Americas), TBA (Europe including Australia)

Press contact: press@bip-media.com

About Nintendo DSiW are (Nintendo DSi Shop)

Nintendo DSiWare offers an ever-expanding collection of games and applications

exclusive to Nintendo DSi. From useful applications like the Nintendo DSi Browser to

bite-sized versions of your favorite games, there's always something new in store!

About Nintendo Points

With your Nintendo DSiTM or WiiTM wirelessly connected to the Internet you can access the Nintendo DSi Shop or Wii Shop Channel and start browsing. In the Nintendo DSi

Shop, you can turn Nintendo Points into Nintendo DSi PointsTM and redeem them for Nintendo DSiWareTM games and applications. In the Wii Shop Channel, you can turn

Nintendo Points into Wii PointsTM and redeem them for Virtual Console games, Wii Channels or WiiWareTM games. Nintendo Points can be purchased at retail outlets. They

can also be bought directly as Nintendo DSi PointsTM in the Nintendo DSi Shop, or as Wii PointsTM in the Wii Shop Channel.

ABOUT BiP MEDIA

Full name: BiP media

Activities: Video game and multimedia content developer

Website: www.bip-media.com

Contact: press@bip-media.com

BiP media is an independent French studio focusing on the development of innovative, high-quality casual games. Since its establishment in 2004 by two seasoned industry insiders, BiP has successfully developed many original PC and console titles across a range of genres.

ABOUT CREATIPS

Full name: Creatips

Activities: Marketing analysis, Elaboration of PR and marketing operations, Web design

Website: creatips.zallag.com (under construction)

Contact: press.creatips@zallag.com

Founded in 2010, Creatips is a sales and marketing support for independent video game developers. A dedicated team (marketing product manager, business developer, graphic designer) elaborates solutions to increase the visibility of games through many digital distribution channels. Creatips is managed by the French publisher Zallag.

Nintendo trademarks used under license. Nintendo DSiWare is onlyavailable through the Nintendo system

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