​Welcome to the latest Doctor Who: Legacy Newsletter!

Greetings Whovians!  

I'm sure we don't have to remind you that the premiere of Season 8 of Doctor Who is this weekend and that means the launch of Season 8 content for Doctor Who: Legacy!  Read on for all the details!

What to Expect this Weekend!

This weekend, Deep Breath, the first episode of the new Season 8 of Doctor Who will premiere on Saturday worldwide.  Sunday morning, at 11 am pacific (safely past spoiler concerns), the Doctor Who: Legacy team will release Deep Breath in the game.

• Deep Breath will be found in a new Season 8 button in the Specials tab.
• There will be an Easy, Medium, and Hard version which you can choose based on your level and the amount of challenge you want.
• The drop, which we are not announcing in advance, will be awarded to you on first successful completion of the level, regardless of chosen difficulty.
• There will also be a new Expert mode level coming at the same time which, as always, will be extremely challenging and only for the most experienced players.  The reward however, which is guaranteed on first successful completion, is well worth it, I assure you!
• At 12 noon pacific, we will be on Twitch for our weekly broadcast at a special date and time. Join us at www.twitch.tv/theadiposetv to talk about the new season of the show, the new content in game, and to receive a promo code that will unlock the very first of the Season 8 costume series - this one is for Jenny!  Everyone on twitch will be able to claim the code!  And if that wasn't enough, BBC Worldwide has provided us some Doctor Who Quiz Books and novels to give away to some lucky winners!

Subsequent weeks will be similar though we are hoping to begin to release on Saturday night instead of Sunday morning -- stay tuned for more info on this!

August 18, 2014 Media Alert

Indie Publisher Tiny Rebel Games announces huge expansion to award winning Doctor Who: Legacy Mobile and Facebook game, groundbreaking tie-in with the upcoming season of Doctor Who

Tiny Rebel Games and Seed Studio are thrilled to reveal their unprecedented live plans for the upcoming 8th season of Doctor Who and to announce that version 2.3 of the game, entitled The Hunt For Greyhound One, is now live on all platforms.

• When the new season of Doctor Who premiers this weekend, fans will find new content released each week which will incorporate new enemies, allies, costumes, and set backgrounds.
• The release of Doctor Who: Legacy 2.3: The Hunt For Greyhound One finds the incarnations of the Doctor banding together in their efforts to fight the Master. Joining the Doctors in the latest update is the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), along with the much loved classic ally, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, as well as Rose Tyler, Wilfred Mott, Ace, Idris, the Third Doctor’s trusty car Bessie, and even the Whomobile!
• Doctor Who: Legacy recently surpassed one million installs across supported platforms.
• Doctor Who: Legacy recently was named #1 Best Brain and Puzzle Android Game of 2013 by Bestappever.com.

“When we launched Doctor Who: Legacy back in November, we couldn’t have imagined the amazingly engaged and supportive fan community that it would inspire” says Lee Cummings, Creative Director at Tiny Rebel Games. “We are so thrilled and honored at the privilege the BBC has allowed us in supporting the upcoming season of the show with the 12th Doctor and his allies on their new adventures. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on with our fans!” adds Susan Cummings, Executive Producer of Doctor Who: Legacy.

In coordination with the release of a new level for Doctor Who: Legacy, a special livestream will take place at 12pm Pacific on Sunday August 24th on Twitch. For joining us on Twitch, viewers will be the first to receive a new costume for Jenny – the very first costume Doctor Who: Legacy will release for Season 8! Viewers can watch the Twitch livestream at 12pm PDT on Sunday, August 24th here: http://www.twitch.tv/theadiposetv

The Hunt For Greyhound One is now available globally as an update to the game on all supported platforms including Amazon Appstore, Google Play, iTunes, and on Facebook.

Doctor Who: Legacy is the award winning puzzle RPG launched in late 2013. Join the Doctors from throughout the 50 year history of the show, as well as your favorite allies, and see how you match up against the Doctors’ most formidable foes. 

Update 2.4

Update 2.4 is coming next week!  

This is a relatively small update BUT it does include some.....ahem......aesthetic changes as a result of the launch of Season 8.  

Also, it fixes issues some players have had with the Daily Login Bonus and miscellaneous bug fixing.

BBC America 'Scavenger Hunt' on iTunes and Google Play

To celebrate the upcoming launch of Season 8, we've teamed up with BBC America to include promo codes within the descriptions of some of the available episodes of Doctor Who on iTunes and Google Play.

A careful eye will find codes to unlock various Doctors and costumes.  Codes are only usable on the platform you find them on -- in other words iTunes codes work only on iOS.  Google Play codes are only usable on Android.  

Enjoy!

The Game That's Kept Me Sane Waiting For The New Doctor Who

by Mike Fahey, Kotaku.com

"Late last year when we were first introduced to Peter Capaldi as the next regeneration of the Doctor we were also introduced to Doctor Who: Legacy, a companion collecting puzzle game from Tiny Rebel Games. It's come quite a long way since then.

Like the popular Puzzle and Dragons, Doctor Who: Legacy is a game about collecting color-coded creatures and using them participate in match-puzzle battles. Unlike Puzzle and Dragons, Doctor Who: Legacy isn't all about paying for rare monsters. There are no ads in the game, just a simple, understated store, politely clearing its throat when you wander over and mentioning that, should you be interested, there are things for sale. It's one of the very best examples of free-to-play." 

Read more at Kotaku!

The DWW Interview: Susan and Lee Cummings – Doctor Who Legacy

Excerpt:

"One of the problems with console development is that budgets, teams, scope, have gotten MASSIVE. There are console games where you have multiple producers who each deal with just one aspect of the game. From a holistic standpoint, it is just impossible, on a team of hundreds, to really feel like you have your arms entirely around what you are developing. We wanted the opposite experience. We wanted our hands in every aspect of this game from development through to publishing and marketing and tech support. Everything. People email support and they hear back from the executive producer, the creative director, or from the technical producer in Taiwan. That’s really cool in my mind. And we’ve never had this sort of direct dialogue with our fans. Where on a moment to moment basis we can throw out a question on Facebook regarding what ability a new ally should have and within an hour over a thousand people have given us their opinion. And an hour later, the game has been updated.

But the values our past employers taught us – Rockstar in particular – was a fierce protectiveness of game design. That what is best for gameplay is always what is best for the game. That obsessive attention to little details matter and get noticed by the player."

Read more over on Doctor Who Worldwide!

Did You Know?

Hardly a day goes by that we aren't announcing something and it can be hard to keep up with the news.

Did you know?

• Tom Baker, the much revered Fourth Doctor, has signed on to the game and we are currently working hard to get his image perfect.  
• Kylie Minogue, known to Whovians for her portrayal of Astrid Perth, has signed on too and is on the drawing table.
• Rose Tyler's first costume is currently in the works and based on fan voting, we're starting with the Union Jack t-shirt.