Osmos 2 – Free update. Play against the developers!

Osmos 2 has been released for iOS and is a free update.
Introducing multiplayer and iPad retina support.
And for this weekend you can play against the devs (until our batteries run out). I’ll add all the Game Center names here as things progress.
I am =  OsmosDev_Mat
Dave Burke = OsmosDev_Dave
Andy Nealen = OsmosDev_Andy
MULTIPLAYER:

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Osmos: Tips for a Long and Happy Life

Osmos is just like real life; you float around absorbing biophobes, trying to avoid getting pulled into a giant sun; and just like real life, some tips on sub-nuclear physics and orbital mechanics would probably come in very handy. These tips will help you progress from being wonderfully average, to a little better than average.
Osmos [...]

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Osmos wins Apple Design Award 2011

Another woah! for Osmos and Hemisphere; Osmos has won the Apple Design Award 2011!
There were twelve winners, just three in each category of iPhone, Mac, Student and iPad, which was Osmos’ category.
Eddy from Hemisphere attended to pick up his award of Apple hardware and metallic cuboid that glows when you touch it. We look forward to seeing [...]

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Osmos: End of Year Awards

What a year Osmos has had! No1 in the iOS App Store and Apple’s iPad Game of the Year(!) as well as the PC/Mac/Linux version selling 250,000 copies in a week in the Humble Indie Bundle just before Christmas.

Hemisphere Games, the creators of Osmos, have posted some of the end of year awards it has [...]

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Osmos: Apple’s Game of the Year for iPad!

Woah x10. Apple has just announced the four winners of the prestigious apps of the year 2010, and have selected Osmos as the iPad game of the year 2010. Congratulations to Hemisphere Games!

Steve Jobs does all his re-entry calculations using Osmos for iPad.
Osmos includes music from Gas and High Skies (free MP3 downloads)

Also, coincidently Osmos (iOS) [...]

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2B or ≠ 2B… Universal

Eddy Boxerman from Hemisphere Games has written a very interesting post on the dilema of creating universal apps for the App Store…

When Apple first announced the iPad, including information on its App Store and Universal Apps, we began asking ourselves should we go “Universal”, or release two separate builds? This is a question that every [...]

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Mat and Eddy Osmos Interview at CDM

Eddy Boxerman, the main man behind the ambient game Osmos and myself (Mat Jarvis) have been interviewed by Peter Kirn at his Create Digital Music blog. We cover such topics as the evolution of the game, gravitational mechanics, and the Osmos soundtrack.
Visit CreateDigitalMusic.com to read the full interview (music physics space in perfect fusion)
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