The problem was that the iPhone technology at the time wasn’t so hot at pushing polygons. Given the company’s financial situation, it was imperative that it use as much as possible from its work on Super Hind. Unfortunately, that was proving to be a bigger challenge than anticipated. The type of game was obviously a great fit for the audience. Seeing this success helped spur Mountain Sheep on. MoreGames’s iDracula combined slick 2D art with straightforward gameplay and was an immediate success when it hit in early 2009. It wasn’t long after that that the idea for Minigore was born.Īs luck would have it, a few months into the development of Minigore, another twin-stick shooter was released on the platform.
As he downloaded games on the device and played around with it, he saw real potential in the platform and felt that was where Mountain Sheep should switch its focus. Right around that time, Timo Vihola purchased an iPhone. The team prototyped over a dozen ideas but couldn’t settle on one. The PlayStation 3 had started to shake off its initial slump and there wasn’t as much competition on its online shop as there was on Xbox Live.
Initially, they thought about making an action game for the PlayStation Network service. Knowing the next shot would likely be the last one, the Vihola brothers planned it cautiously. Just one game into its life, Mountain Sheep was in big trouble. Most of the staff had to be let go, leaving just the Vihola brothers as active members of the team. In hindsight, it’s perhaps not surprising that Super Hind underperformed compared to expectations. On top of that, Super Hind only saw release in European markets, which further narrowed its chances of success. Development took a considerable amount of time and money, and when the game finally released in 2008, the Western market for the handheld console wasn’t in terribly good condition.
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Its first game was a PlayStation Portable game called Super Hind, which saw players taking control of an attack helicopter in rather impressive 3D landscapes. Mountain Sheep was founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2006 by Jouni Mannonen and brothers Timo and Kimmo Vihola.
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