Genre: Indie Action Arcade
Platform: PC, iOS, and Android (more coming soon)
Price: $1.99
Contact Greg@dumbandfat.comto request promo codes.
Sling It! is fun & casual slingshot/shootemup game in which you wreck hordes of smoke-spewing robots by breaking them down piece by piece and using their debris as a weapon against them!
In the future, Pollutnik robots have blotted out the sun and created an eternal winter. That's where you come in; with your trusty sling-ship, you can catch shattered pieces of enemy robots and use them as ammo! This sequel to the classic Pollushot features even more robots, shots and levels than the original. Now with powerups! Catch wrenches to restore health and make the game last forever... or power up your shots with crazy abilities!
The game also features a soundtrack comprised entirely of classical music, arranged by members of the video game music performance group Beta Test.
Greg "Banov" Lobanov took on the moniker of Dumb and Fat Games in 2010, after working on and publishing indie games for over 5 years. He had gained notoriety amongst indie developers with his early freeware title Assassin Blue in 2009, made in his spare time in high school. He worked on several small games after that, then released Dubloon in 2010, a large-scale freeware role-playing game about pirates. Later that same year he released Escape from the Underworld, a freeware Metroidvania with tight game design and a story told through gameplay.
His first big commercial success was with the mobile app Pollushot, published by YoYoGames in 2011. A fun-to-play and innovative slingshot-shooter game, it has been purchased more than 20,000 times between the iTunes app store and Android marketplace.
With the success of Pollushot behind him, Greg hunkered down and started work on his biggest project to date, Phantasmaburbia, starting from Dubloon as a basic framework. The game centers around a group of modern teenagers who battle an army of ghosts that have invded their suburban homes. It took a year and a half of continuous effort to make, balanced precariously with college classes at Drexel University. Phantasmaburbia launched on October 31, 2012, to excellent reviews and reception but very few sales. Sling It! marks the developer's hope to come back from nothing.
