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* The game's opening title screen contains several alternating captions, most of which are based on those from the show.
* The game's opening title screen contains several alternating captions, most of which are based on those from the show.
* There is shown to be a tunnel known as [[Handbasket Road]] that connects the New New York sewers directly to Robot Hell.
* There is shown to be a tunnel known as [[Handbasket Road]] that connects the New New York sewers directly to Robot Hell.
=== Continuity ===
* The bio on Fry's Twitcher profile lists him as "[[Near-Death Wish|Clippy winner]], [[My Three Suns|emperor of Trisol]] (retired), [[The Beast with a Billion Backs|tentacle pope of the world]]".


=== Alien-language sightings ===
=== Alien-language sightings ===

Revision as of 10:17, 11 March 2016

Game of Drones
Written byDave Grossman,
Jonathon Myers,
Patric M. Verrone
[1]
Developed byWooga
Platform(s)Mobile (Android / iOS)
Genre(s)Puzzle [2]
Mode(s)Single player
Rating(s)PEGI 12 [2]
Title referenceThe T.V. series Game of Thrones
External links
Official website
Additional
Transcript Pictures

Game of Drones is a Futurama match-three puzzle video game [2] developed by German-based video-game developer Wooga [1] and the second Futurama video game, after 2003's self-titled console game. It was announced on 8 July 2015. [3] The title was revealed on 23 November 2015. [1]

Gameplay

The app is a puzzle game that plays in the same way as Candy Crush Saga, where drones (coloured icons) on a tiled board must be matched via color by four or more to remove them from the screen. Special super drones can appear that give the player an advantage, such as the ability to destroy an entire row of drones, or to explode all of the drones in a specific radius. Each character also has a special ability that is charged up and can be used to clear the board of many drones. Later levels include challenges such as boxes that must be destroyed by removing drones next to them, and pizza boxes that must reach the bottom of the screen. Levels are completed when the player removes a certain number of specific drones, destroys all the boxes onscreen, succeeds in getting all of the pizza boxes to the bottom of the screen or a combination of the three.

Players are only given a certain number of moves per level. If they run out of moves, they must either give up and lose a life or use in-game currency to gain a few more moves and keep trying. A maximum of 5 lives are permitted at once, and it takes 30 minutes to regain a single life. A free life can be quickly gained by watching a 30-second-long ad.

Boosters are also eventually made available to the player, which must be bought using in-game currency. In-game currency can be purchased using real world money (microtransactions). An alternate way of gaining in-game currency is by spinning the Wheel of Robots (which requires the player to watch a 30-second-long ad), which can reward the player between 1 to 5 units of currency. Other bonuses include unlimited lives for either 5, 10 or 15 minutes. The wheel can only be spun once every 10 minutes.

Plot

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The game's story is told through a series of interactive comic book pages, which are unlocked by progressing further into the game.

In 3015 at the Planet Express headquarters, Professor Farnsworth reveals to the crew that he has invented delivery drones due to negative customer feedback. The professor then teaches them how to deliver the drones, which requires matching them up via colour (this is because they "tend to wander off unless they're in a group"), then sends them on a delivery to Luna Park. Meanwhile, Mom spots the drones and becomes suspicious, so she send out a MomCorp spy drone to investigate.

After the crew defeats the spy drone, Mom decides to initiate "Operation Unfair Competition", and sends out an army of box-carrying drones that work under a new program known as "Momazon Primo", which comes with "free shipping that you pay for". Realising that this could put Planet Express out-of-business, the professor decides that they'll compete by including food-grade pizzas with their deliveries. Whilst on the moon, the crew stop at the hydroponic farm at the request of Bender, who quickly tries to come up with an excuse for why he wants to go there. Once at the farm, Bender purchases illegal moon ferrets from the hydroponic farmer.

After making drone deliveries across the moon, the crew must battle Zapp Brannigan. Upon defeat, Zapp boards the Planet Express ship (whilst Bender desperately tries to hide his moon ferrets) and requests that they deliver him to the DOOP headquarters, which has been taken over by Neutrals. The Neutral President claims that they came to power lawfully when the vote resulted in an exact tie. Zapp battles with the President, resulting in the HQ activating its self-destruct mechanism. The headquarters are destroyed, and Zapp flees the scene in an escape pod. Leela suggests the crew should lay low for a while, so Bender decides they should go to Mars Vegas.

Whilst exploring the casinos, the crew come across the Robot Mafia. The mafia demand a cut of any business the crew do there, threatening to harm them if they do not pay up. Bender ends up keeping one of the drones as a pet, naming it Rusty, and meets up with Joey Mousepad to sell him his moon ferrets. Since this qualifies as business within Mars Vegas, the mafia demand their cut of the profits, despite Bender selling the ferrets to one of the mafia's own members. Bender explains that he already spent the money on a sweater for Rusty and offers it to them, however, they tell him to get their money within five levels (levels being Martian hours), otherwise, he will be clamped. Failing to pay up, Bender then battles and defeats Clamps.

The Donbot considers their debt forgiven, but warns them to leave at once. Unbeknowst to the crew, Clamps removes the ship's brakes. Still on the run after accidentally destroying the DOOP headquarters, the professor buys the crew new identities: Fedgewick (Leela), Thrundle (Bender) and Crotchmonitor (Fry). Later, the ship approaches the Planet Express hangar back on Earth, but as a result of the sabotaged brakes, it crashes straight through the floor and into the New New York sewers. Leela notices that there are no mutants anywhere, when suddenly Leg Mutant thuds agains the windscreen of the ship. Leg Mutant tells them that Mom has forced all the mutants into sweatshop labor at the Momazon Primo warehouse. Enraged, Leela announces that she is going to save her parents (and maybe the other mutants, too).

After word of Mom's mutant sweatshops is leaked to the media, she pretends to have been unaware of the slavery, and vows to punish anyone responsible. However, she also argues that the sewer unemployment rate is now 0%. Behind the scenes, it is revealed that Mom is using brain slugs to keep the mutants under her control. The crew capture all of Mom's drones in a huge net and crash it directly into the Momazon Primo warehouse, freeing her parents and the rest of the mutants. Trying to figure out a way to get rid of all of the drones in the net, Fry suggests they dump them in Robot Hell. With the ship's brakes still damaged, the gang enter Robot Hell and crash directly into a soundproof seal which contains Calculon.

Meanwhile, the Robot Devil isn't pleased about the pile of MomCorp drones dumped everywhere. After calling the MomCorp helpline and attempting to cash them for a deposit, Mom tells him that the Planet Express gang are responsible for making the mess and that all of their drones have robot souls.

To be completed...

Additional information

Trivia

"The cracks in your mobile display are not part of the game"
  • The game features its own built-in Twitcher page, which lets the player view "twits" from characters in the show.
  • The game's title is a reference to the T.V. series Game of Thrones.
  • Drones were previously referenced in The Beast with a Billion Backs and "Fun on a Bun".
    • In The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender asks if the crew can't send a robotic drone into the anomaly.
    • In "Fun on a Bun", Zapp controls "a revolutionary fleet of unmanned drones" (with men in them).
  • In "Simpsorama", which aired roughly eight months before the game's announcement, the professor, while in 2014, tells Fry, Leela, and Bender to find out why people in this time period would ever pay for freemium games.
  • The drone prototypes were made using part of Fry's brain.
  • According to the hydroponic farmer, cuteness is a crime on the moon.
  • Fry has a copy of a book titled "Poker Book System", written by Borax Kid.
  • The Compulseez booster is a new addition to the products of the Futurama universe. According to the product's Twitcher page, it is unknown whether Compulseez are candy or medication; and they are produced by the same company who make Def-Con Owl Traps.
  • The game's opening title screen contains several alternating captions, most of which are based on those from the show.
  • There is shown to be a tunnel known as Handbasket Road that connects the New New York sewers directly to Robot Hell.

Continuity

Alien-language sightings

    Time: Seen in the "Going To Hell" comic cutscene (chapter 4 part 3)
    Location: Wooden sign at the entrance to Handbasket Road
    Language: AL1
    Translation: PAVED BY THE GOOD INTENTIONS CONCRETE COMPANY

Twitcher

  • The following usernames are used by the show's characters, businesses and products on the game's Twitcher app:
    • Fry - @pfry837902
    • Leela - @turangaleela
    • Bender - @IPFreely
    • Professor Farnsworth - @proff
    • Amy - @TheRightWong
    • Zoidberg - @FishLiver
    • Zapp - @gladiator45
    • Cubert - @karthagthebold
    • Dwight - @MightyDwight
    • Calculon - @TheRealCalculon
    • Robot Devil - @soulowner
    • Joey Mousepad - @robomofo
    • Hydroponic farmer - @MFProduce
    • Leg Mutant - @kickinit
    • Neutral President - @username
    • Slurm - @Slurm
    • MomCorp - @MomCorp
    • Channel √2 - @chroot2
    • Fishy Joe's - @FishyJoeHimself
    • Compulseez - @Compulseez

Levels

The game's levels are broken into different locations taken from the show. The following locations are used in this order:

Boosters

Boosters that aid the player are eventually made available. There are 2 types of boosters, some that are activated before starting a level and some that can be activated during a level.

  • Pre-game boosters:
    • Fishy Meal - Begins a level with one each of a Line, Bomb, and Prism Super Drone.
    • Super Slurm - Begins the level with a fully charged character power.
    • Compulseez - Organizes Drones by color at the start of the level.
  • In-game boosters:
    • Doomba - Automatically cleans and vaporizes 4 areas of the board, targeting level objectives.
    • Special Doomlivery - Immediately places 5 Line Drones on the board for maximum doom convenience.
    • Spheroboom - Brings localized doom to a tiny, hexagonal area of space.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Fox Digital Entertainment and Wooga announce partnership to create Futurama game. (Wooga Blog.) 23 November 2015. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Futurama: Game of Drones - Android Apps on Google Play. (Google Play.) Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  3. ^ Carter Dotson (08 July 2015). A 'Futurama' Mobile Game is Coming, Just Shut up and Take my Money. (Touch Arcade.) Retrieved on 09 July 2015.