Gift your friends an exciting Space experience this Christmas, for FREE!

December 13, 2012 in Games, What's New

Who says you can’t celebrate Christmas in Space with your friends? Now you can even do it for FREE with Galactic Phantasy Prelude Christmas Edition! Send them this fun game as a gift here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/galactic-phantasy-prelude/id561459499?ls=1&mt=8

In Galactic Phantasy Prelude Christmas Edition, you turn your cool spaceship into funny Santa Claus and shoot your enemies with snowballs and colorful ribbons. Let’s have fun and enjoy Christmas in this visually stunning galaxy. Moreover, it’s all for FREE for a limited time!

Besides downloading and enjoying the game yourself right away, you can spread the joy by sending the game as a gift to your friends. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to gift the app to others:
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57336902-285/how-to-gift-an-app-from-the-app-store/

Share the fun and show your friends you care about them. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Galactic Phantasy Prelude – game hints

November 15, 2012 in What's New

How to check my game progress?

To check your game progress, simply tap the “log” button on the top menu bar and check the latest entry for your next destination.

In the log menu, you can also return to the previous plot point by tapping the “restore” button. This function can only be used inside starport. Although you can fight the previous story boss battles freely with the rollback function, these battles will not reward you special items if you have already fought them before. Unlike starting a “new game” in the title screen which removes your previous game record, using this function will not affect your possessions (e.g. ships, items, money and credits) of the current game.”

How to survive battles?

To increase your chance to survive battles:

1. Know your enemies: those that are substantially weaker than you are marked with a grey flag, those that are about the same level as you are marked yellow, those marked red are ones that you should consider to avoid.

2. Use Defense Matrix (DM) and Repair Ship. DM is a protective shield that blocks all incoming attack and it can get recharged when turned off. Repair Ship recovers your ship’s SP instantly during battles.

3. Add a wingman ship to your fleet which attacks your enemies and shares some damage for your flagship. Simply build a new ship in the shipyard and assign it the wingman ship in the “fleet” menu in a starport.

4. Use your most powerful ship as the flagship. You can change your flagship with the “swap” button in the “fleet” menu in a starport. Also see “how to build a new ship” for more information.”

How to avoid battle?

1. If you do not want to engage in battles with certain pirates, hold the “turbo” button at the lower right corner and enter the nearest starport or stargate quickly.

2. During battles, you can escape by clicking the “escape” button at the upper left corner and wait for 10 seconds.”

How to make money?

Tips on earning money in the game:

1. Rob the transport ships. They are weaker than other pirates.

2. Accept missions in the Information Center. You will be rewarded with money or equipment. Equipment earned in missions are often better than those found in the shops.

3. Pick the easier missions such as trailing (colored green in the missions menu) that do not involve battles.

4. If you have a transport ship, you can take the smuggling missions (colored purple) that require a large cargo hold.

5. Trade goods between different markets to profit from price differences. (See also “What is Golden Route?”)

6. Sell or recycle unneeded equipment, goods or ships.”

How to build a new ship?

To build a ship:

1. Go to the shipyard and check what ships are available there. You can see what materials, blueprints, and how much money is required to build the ships there.

2. Choose a ship and click the “build” button to build the ship.If the “build” button is unavailable, either you do not have the blueprint, materials or money required or the level of the shipyard is not high enough.

3. You can build more sophisticated ships by leveling up the shipyard. Simply tap the blue arrow icon next to the level of the shipyard UI and invest money to upgrade it.

How to get blueprint?

You need a blueprint to build a new ship. Blueprints can be acquired in battles against pirate groups like the Blackbeard, Elhibor, Babyface Syndicate, Qayzan Fighters and Dralomee Defenders. The stronger the pirate fleet you encounter, the greater the chance you can obtain better blueprints. Besides robbing pirate fleets, you may also purchase blueprints in the blueprint store by credits.

How to get Materials?

Materials can be purchased from the mining plant of any starports.

What is Dock and Wander?

In the outer space, when you get close to a planet, there are two options: “Dock” and “Wander”.

1. Tap “Dock” to enter the starport directly for repairing and equipping your fleet.

2. Tap “Wander” to explore all the planet’s facilities such as the starport, market, information center, shipyard and mine plant.

What is Golden Route?

A Golden Route is a path indicating that if you buy specific goods from certain starport and sell it in another starport, you earn a decent sum of money. You can get the hint of golden routes from the “Golden Route” menu. Note that your desired goods may not be available if the level of the market is not high enough.

What if I cannot complete the mission?

If for some reason you cannot complete the current mission (e.g. not enough cargo hold to load the goods, or the opponent is too strong), you can abandon your mission without penalty. After abandoning a mission you can freely accept another mission. You can take the same mission again at any time later.

Types of ships

There are five types of ships that can carry weapons. Namely (from smallest to biggest) Frigate (FG), Destroyer (DS), Cruiser (CS), Battleship (BS) and Battlecruiser (BC). Bigger ships have higher Structure Point/SP and more equipment slots for mounting weapons, support devices or add-on parts.\nTransport Ships (TS) are a special ship type for loading a large amount of trading goods. They cannot be equipped with weapons.

Galactic Phantasy Prelude – Version 1.1.0 Released

November 15, 2012 in Games, What's New

We are pleased to announce that the latest update of Galactic Phantasy Prelude is released. The major changes are:

- Improved loot rates of ship blueprint and game money
- Improved loot items for the story battles
- Enhanced the map to indicate starport facilities
- Doubled ships available in each factory
- Enhanced battle tutorial
- Added a hint page to guide you how to proceed the game
- You can tap and hold to fire repeatedly
- Defense Matrix will be turned on automatically when it is fully charged
- Fine tuned the sensitivity of joystick
- Add a function to go back to previous story states
- Added shortcut buttons for the UI in starport
- Enhanced the UI market and factory: all items for sale will be shown, regardless of the facility level.
- Bug fixes on request gameplay

Galactic Phantasy Prelude – Why isn’t it just point and shoot?

October 30, 2012 in What's New

We all love space shooters. Get into the cockpit, pick up the controller, simply move around and shoot. You count on your reflexes, you act before you think, you don’t spend time making decisions, you just follow the path, point and shoot and yes it’s a lot of fun!

Well, until you feel tired of casual gaming and you’d rather truly live the life of a space adventurer.

Galactic Phantasy Prelude to fit the bill. (just released on AppStore, at only USD0.99 for a limited time)

In Galactic Phantasy Prelude (GPP), you’re doing just that; live the life of a space pirate and choose your own path. At first glance it’s not as easy as other space shooters you’re used to, but who would ever believe being a space pirate is easy? Mind you, once you get started there’s no turning back, it’s going to be highly addictive.

Unlike most of the other games on iOS, GPP is targeted at serious gamers who don’t just want to kill time but are really looking for an experience. GPP is not about simple single-path casual gaming, but it actually lets you choose how you want to live your life as a space pirate. It’s an open world with a mix of many game systems. In GPP you can

- engage in real time action battles
- progress in the main storyline and uncover the secrets gradually
- pick up numerous side quests under different categories
- build and customize six classes of spacehips, from small frigates to huge battlecruisers
- fit your ships with 2000+ different equipment in 20+ types
- rob any spaceships in the outer space
- trade goods and discover 30 golden routes that can get you rich quickly
- recruit crew members for your fleet
- level up starport faciliites

Why serious gamers?

iOS has always been regarded as a platform for simple and casual gaming. Why would there be a constant barrier for serious gamers? We believe, on the contrary, the touch interface and the gorgeous screen iOS devices offer would provide a great foundation for us to build high quality gaming experience for everyone.

GPP might not have as short a learning curve as ordinary space shooters, but what GPP offers is a free open world environment where you can explore the entire Universe, and you can decide how you want to proceed in your life. You really immerse yourself into the game world and you start to believe you’re a space adventurer.

Why open world?

Simply put, GPP’s open world design makes GPP no longer a game. GPP is an experience.

With an open world, you’re not told to follow a straight path. Well, it’s just like in real life you’re going to explore the world a bit and seek your own path. As a space adventurer you can make a living by trading commodities or you can go all the way out and rob those trading spaceships. In combats, you can fit your ships with all the different types of equipment to align with your battle strategies. You’re free to make all those decisions.

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Galactic Phantasy Prelude announced

October 16, 2012 in Games, What's New

Moonfish Software is glad to launch Galactic Phantasy Prelude (GPP) on Apple’s AppStore on 29th October 2012. To celebrate this great milestone of the company, GPP is now available for only $0.99 for a limited time.

For more video clips of Galactic Phantasy Prelude, see our YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/MoonfishSoftware

Galactic Phantasy Prelude is a brand new action adventure game with super high-quality graphics and music. The game is powered by a newly designed game system. It represents a full year of hard work dedicated by our team of gaming professionals.

Features

- Innovative full-action battle gameplay; reflexes and tactics are equally important.

- Mix and match 2000+ pieces of equipment on your ships to suit your own style.

- Engage in exciting battles or go trading and smuggling; you decide how you earn your living.

- RPG-style open world gameplay; roam freely and challenge various missions.

- Main storyline + hundreds of missions + trading and robbing freely = 50+ hours of gameplay.

- Think you’re the only pirate out there? Beware, robbers sometimes get robbed, it’s a “real” world afterall.

- Upgrade starport facilities so you can trade more items, build more advanced ships, and unlock missions with great rewards.

- Discover the 30+ golden trade routes and enjoy some big money trading deals.

- Console quality graphics on all iOS devices; well optimized for high-end devices like the iPhone 4/5 & iPad with new shaders and various kinds of full screen special effects.

- Facebook and Game Center integration; Enjoy gaming with your friends!

- A whole new gaming experience, at only $0.99 for a limited time with our special launch promotion.

Introducing Playroll, a new way to enjoy your social life

September 20, 2012 in What's New

As Blitz Global’s technology partner, Moonfish Software is proud to announce the launch of Playroll on Apple’s AppStore.

Playroll represents a new genre of social apps. It gives you personalized recommendations on the best things to do with your friends. Be it a hidden boutique cafe, an indie music concert or a deep sea fishing trip, you can invite your buddies or get invited easily and enjoy the experience.

Playroll recommends only the most relevant events to you according to timing, your preferences and social relevance. You won’t miss a ticket sale anymore as Playroll tells you about the right event at the right time.

Moonfish Software is proud to be Blitz Global’s technology partner. We’ve been working closely together to perfect the app’s design, implementation and infrastructure.

Playroll is now available on AppStore at http://itunes.apple.com/app/playroll/id526949107?mt=8

For more information about Playroll, visit the Playroll website at http://www.playroll.me.

Galactic Phantasy wins HKICT Awards 2012 Best Digital Entertainment Gold Award

April 10, 2012 in What's New

We are delighted to announce that Galactic Phantasy has won the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2012: Best Digital Entertainment (Entertainment Software) Gold Award, as well as the Best Digital Entertainment Special Mention (New Start-Up Company) Award.

Comments of the Judging Panel:

“Although “Galactic Phantasy” is a mobile game, the high quality can meet the level of console games. It leaves a long-lasting impression. This production contains extremely realistic and gorgeous in-game graphics which showed the professionalism of the production team. It also brings gamers a fresh experience on mobile platform. The judges are glad to see this kind of style and high quality mobile games which originally created by Hong Kong creative professionals. This gives a great encouragement to Hong Kong creative industry.”

「太空幻想」雖然為一流動遊戲,但質素卻達到電腦遊戲的水平,令人印象深刻。擁有像真度極高的華麗畫面與出色的電腦圖像,反映出製作團隊的專業水平之餘,更帶給玩家全新的手機遊戲體驗。作品設計吸引及嶄新,具原創性,後繼產品具一定市場潛力。評審團很高興看到這類型質素的手機遊戲是全由香港製造,對香港創意產業具有鼓舞作用。

Commenting on the winning of the awards, Anthony Law, Director of Moonfish Software said “It’s a great honor to win these 2 awards. I’d like to thank the judging panel for their kind words on Galactic Phantasy, and to thank the Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Association and Hong Kong Productivity Council for organizing the Best Digital Entertainment Award. It’s a great encouragement to our whole team, who’ve shown their perseverance and drive for excellence in creating Galactic Phantasy. Last but not least, I’d like to thank the Hong Kong Science Park for their support with the incubation program. With their support we’ve been able to really focus on what we do best: to create and innovate.”

Announcing our new names: Moonfish Software & Galactic Phantasy

January 3, 2012 in What's New

We’re glad to announce new names for our company and our flagship product.

Sunfish Studio Limited is now Moonfish Software Limited.

Galaxy Pirate Adventure is now Galactic Phantasy.

Our new website domain is www.moonfishsoftware.com.

Despite the name changes, we here at Moonfish Software will keep creating great products and providing excellent professional services to our customers.

GPA media coverage in Hong Kong

November 4, 2011 in What's New

We are glad that Galaxy Pirate Adventure has recently drawn the attention from some local media in Hong Kong.

See the full article on www.pctech.com.hk.

Sunfish Studio interviewed by iFanzine.com

October 19, 2011 in What's New

iFanzine.com, the no. 1 source for unbiased and in-depth reviews of iOS games, has just conducted an interview with us.

See full article on www.ifanzine.com.