BOVINEDRAGON UNVEIL IPHONE TRASH-COLLECTOR GOMI

I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for Bovinedragon’s free iPhone platformer Trace [AppStore] and its mix of MS Paint naivete with frankly excellently done draw-your-own stick-figure action/puzzling, so I was pleased to note this morning that they’ve updated their site with new details of their upcoming title Gomi. (Japanese for ‘trash’), the game finds its hook in an environmental motif that sees you reclaiming the world from, so far as I can tell, polluters, industrialization, and… baby seal clubbers?

Though critics will now truly have a game to lambast as the iPhone’s low budget Loco Roco (Rolando having proven itself sufficiently self-standing), the clearly unabashed lifting and downgrading of its style, along with its dash of Katamari and even just a hint of Mario Galaxy‘s island-hopping reassures me that they know precisely what they’re doing, and could end up creating something quite nice.

Gomi [Bovinedragon Software]