'Alto's Odyssey' creator teases 'Laya's Horizon' game coming to Netflix

Toronto-based game developer Snowman has a new game coming. The team known for creating the soothing snowboarding  Alto series teases its upcoming title called Laya's Horizon. There really isn't much we can glean from the new video teaser, except we see a beautiful seaside village in the mountains and a caped character we assume to be Laya. What we do know is the game is coming to Netflix, which offers mobile games as part of its subscription. Laya's Horizon will be the second release on the platform following Lucky Luna. 

Snowman hasn't shared a release date yet. But these collaborations with Netflix aren't the developer's only foray into mobile game subscriptions. There is an updated version of Alto's Odyssey available on Apple Arcade.

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'Alto's Odyssey: The Lost City' to come to Apple Arcade with exclusive new content

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Fans of Alto's Odyssey: The Lost City would love this news. The game is coming to Apple Arcade with exclusive content on the game streaming platform. The gameplay is still the same. You will follow Alto and friends as they snowboard across the Lost City. You're once again tasked to find the secrets of the Lost City, but now there will be a "new and unique biome with special hidden challenges, layered among the classic Alto's Odyssey experience long-term fans know and love."

Source: Engadget

‘Alto’s Odyssey’ is coming to Android for free starting next week

After a bit of a wait, game developer Snowman is finally bringing Apple Design Award winner Alto’s Odyssey to the Android platform. It took a while but the game will be launching for free on Android starting July 26^th. Its iOS counterpart will still cost $6.99 on iOS even after the Android app goes live. But this is because Snowman has to adjust how it markets the game on Google’s mobile platform. Snowman has heard from other indie developers how hard it is to get App Store-level sales on Google Play if they release a paid game out of the gate instead of employing a free model with ad support.

This method has worked for Snowman’s previous game Alto’s Adventure, which has been downloaded 36.5 million times on Android and has 647 billion play sessions. Even now that the game is over two years old, it still logs an average of 13 million sessions per day across 1.5 million devices.

Source: Engadget