Love Doctor Who and
puzzle games? Try Doctor Who Legacy the new free to play game app available on
iOS, Google Play and Kindle.
Game
Description
Team up with your
favourite Doctor and head back through time – revisit your favourite episodes
from the TV series and build a team of your favourite companions and allies
including Clara, Rory, Amy, River, Sarah Jane, K-9 and dozens more, each of
which has their own abilities to help you solve the infinite number of puzzles
you’ll face.
Face the Doctor’s
greatest enemies! Crush Daleks, destroy Weeping Angels use puzzles and
abilities to take down The Silence, Headless Monks, Peg Dolls, Spoonheads and
many more in this brand new BBC Doctor Who gem gaming saga!
It’s quite an addictive
game with the endless levels and strategy needed to defeat the enemy, the play
is split into season starting with season 7, each season has a series of levels
in which you meet the characters and from corresponding TV Series. As you progress through the levels you earn
new Characters, Costumes, Time Crystals and Time Fragments. The time crystals
can be used to buy items or continue game play, the time fragments are used to
level up your characters.
You can purchase the
time crystals but it is not essential as you can progress through the game
without making this a truly free to play game. Add the fact the creators value
the input of the fans, regularly give away freebies and are always on hand to
answer questions and queries makes this game unique in many ways.
Useful
Tutorials to help beginners are available on YouTube I use TheAdiposeTV
Gems and how best to use
them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tY-EEuwmEE
A basic guide to
characters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBt5i8KnWw
Another
good site full of useful information on characters and levels is the Doctor Who Legacy Wiki page that is edited by
dedicated players
I recently spoke to
Susan Cummings, Executive Producer asking her a few questions about the game
and its creation.
Where
did the idea come from for Doctor Who Legacy?
At the start of last
year Tiny Rebel was looking for their next game project. We wanted to make a
mobile game since that whole area was new to us, and we wanted to make a game
based on a universe we loved. We started talking to the BBC and we found out
that it might be possible to get the rights to do a game based on Doctor Who, a
series we were (and are) passionate fans of. We discussed many different types
of games we could build around the Doctor Who universe, but we wanted something
very specific – a gameplay framework that would encompass the entire history of
the show, all the great characters, locations, and something which could be
extended over time. We were huge puzzle games fans (we had designed and
produced a puzzle game together earlier in our careers), and it was an area we
were happy to jump back into.
How
long did it take to go from the idea to the available game?
We worked through
February on the original design concept, we pitched to the BBC early March, the
game development started in April, and we released the first version of the
game in very late November. From November onwards we have been working on
version 2.0 which comes out in 2 days (April 17th).
Did
you expect it to be such a huge hit with the fans?
We didn’t expect the
reception we received – we’re thrilled that fans love the game as much as we
do.
When
you approached the BBC with your idea what was their initial reaction and
do they have any say in which characters and episodes you bring in?
The BBC have been
incredibly supportive at every step. The game concept we pitched to them
originally was very close to the game we shipped, and they understood, and
supported, the vision from the very first day. We send ideas and lists of
characters to them occasionally, they send thoughts back, and collaboratively
we come up with the episodes and characters who finally appear in the game.
How
long does it take to get permission to use the characters?
It depends, and varies
dramatically. Some take days, some take months to be cleared. We can never
guess – it happens when it happens =)
The
characters we have seen so far are from the New Who with a few from Classic Who
will you be incorporating any more of the classic Doctors, companions
and aliens?
We plan to push much
more heavily towards “classic” Doctor Who in the upcoming seasons. Season 4 is
being planned around having 3 (very) classic episodes, and we want to continue
that in further seasons.
The
game is split into seasons how long does it take to create each season and how
do you decide which characters to put in?
The first thing we do is
to break down seasons into appropriate episodes – some episodes work better as
levels in the game than others, so we use those as a starting point. From there
we work on a general flow for the seasons, which characters we want / are
appropriate, and after we sketch out a chunk of gameplay we start to go back
and fill in the gaps. We try to get the “more important” characters from the
universe first.
You
brought us Captain Jack and Ianto Jones soon followed will you be bringing us
Gwen Cooper and maybe the rest of the Torchwood team? (I would love to see
Toshiko Sato and Dr Owen Harper).
Absolutely! Gwen
Cooper has officially signed off on joining the game, so we’re planning to have
her in during (or before) season 4. We would love to do a Torchwood
specific side story to the main game which incorporates not just the whole
Torchwood Three team, but the more Torchwood specific aliens and themes.
We
have Sarah Jane Smith are there any plans to bring in Luke and the other characters
from The Sarah Jane Adventures?
We’re not just huge fans
of Doctor Who but the whole of the “expanded universe” as well. We would love
to dive deeper into the Sarah Jane universe, in the same way as we would love
to do more with Torchwood.
It
had been mentioned you were trying to bring the game to Facebook are you any
closer to achieving that?
We’re very, very close
to having a completed Facebook version. Our goal is to have it live a couple of
weeks after Season 5 is launched and is stable (so within the next 2 or 3
weeks).
Every Thursday from 8pm
– 10pm UK time tune into www.twitch.tv/theadiposetv where fans gather to talk
through the game, share ideas, watch live game play, question the and have the
chance of receiving free items for the game.
Website: www.tinyrebelgames.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/doctorwholegacy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorWhoLegacy
Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/drwholegacy/
The game was
co-developed by Tiny Rebel Games and Seed Studio and published by Seed Studio,
under license from BBC Worldwide.
"Doctor
Who Legacy is a exciting strategy game based in the Doctor Who universe. What
starts off as a simple 'match 3' gems game quickly develops into a complex mix
of character selection, perks, targeting, bosses, special attacks and more!
There are over 40 hours of gameplay and a huge variety of characters and
enemies from the modern and classic era. The company has an excellent ethos of
not using energy systems or 'pay to win' but a far more friendly - 'pay for
quick unlocks' which is refreshing, moral and a model that other companies should
follow. I do weekly live shows with the creators of the game so come and get
involved in the community!" AdiposeTV
Interesting stuff - roll on season 4
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