Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer

May, 2007

Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer was the first game published by eastasiasoft, an affiliate of leading online retailer, Play-Asia.com. Developed by SideQuest Studios, it is a high-definition, two-dimensional, arcade-style shoot 'em up with strong visuals and classic fun gameplay.

The official website was developed with the Joomla! CMS. A variety of custom-built extensions were developed, including a game-tracking extension to authenticate users, allow real-time messaging and provide hi-score lists within the game.

Registered users are provided with a custom-built gamer-tags, friend lists and a variety of statistics.

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Landing: offered news, context-sensitive side-boxes, access to screenshots and one-click newsletter subscription News: full-featured articles, providing the latest information to subscribers, users, and gamers Teasers: prior to release, teasers were released to the public. In this particular instance, unobtrusive Javascript was used to add zoom-like features to a screenshot of the game, so as to explain various interface details Profile: each registered user has access to a profile which provides a lot of interesting functionality, including friend lists, messaging and gamer-tags (with top scores and rankings!) Leaderboard: a hi-score and a ranking leaderboard was maintained, which was also available in-game