Local mobile gaming company, Thoopid, has been working on the highly-addictive smartphone game, Snailboy, for most of 2013. As was expected, they’ve knocked this one out of the park. No wonder they’re tipped to become the ‘Rovio of Africa.’

Snailboy is a physics based puzzle game with rich graphics, killer sounds and over 40 levels of intoxicating game play. The company that made it, Thoopid, is owned by partners David Moffatt, Mark Tomlinson, Simon Spreckley, Larry Katz and Rw Liebenberg. You’ll recognise a few of those names from the multi-award winning powerhouse digital agency in Cape Town, Hello Computer. That’s some serious street cred, right there.

Listen to this, from Ventureburn:

High-quality games are not something you readily associate with Africa or South Africa’s gaming scene. Sure there are a lot of gamers, and they all love to play high-quality titles, but it’s a young and small scene on the development side.

A startup based in Cape Town, Thoopid, is out to change all of that with its upcoming mobile game Snailboy, a game so beautifully animated, brimming with life and character, we’d go so far as to call it the Angry Birds of Africa, not least because Snailboy controls similarly to Angry Birds’ ‘catapult’ mechanic.

Read the rest of that article: Could Thoopid be the Rovio of Africa with upcoming Snailboy game.

One review even thought Snailboy was a movie rather than a game:

When I saw the trailer for the first time, I think I was watching a DISNEY movie trailer. It made me so excited to see the actual movie. Unfortunately, my thought was wrong. It’s a puzzle game… Yes, buddy it’s a game… A game which developed by Thoopid, indie developers from Cape Town, South Africa.

Snailboy is an unique physics based puzzle game. Wait… did I just say physics? Don’t worry friend, this one absolutely not an angry bird game. The game might uses ‘catapult’ concept, but definitely not an angry bird game. That has been a long time ago. Now, it’s time for a snail to prove his existence as a hero.

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Exactly! And that’s why we’re super excited that the game is finally available in the iTunes app store. CLICK HERE to get it.

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