A new genre of apps are fast emerging that might fast change the scenario of gaming altogether. These are games that change the definition of games by being specially reliant on the array of features that the iPhone UI provides.
We are talking about games that use all the features of the iPhone – visual, audio and tactile - watch, listen, shake, tilt, tap and swipe.
The "Ultimate Thumb Fighter" is a game that falls under a fast emerging genre of games (like Punch-o-meter or Re-act) that are completely dependant upon using the multiple physical features of the iPhone screen space.
Gameplay: The Read More...
In a time when arcade means all of boom, bang, slam, antimatter and solar escapades it is a pretty welcome break to see the flat, slosh world of platypus and clay explosions. The game scores on the classic Mac cult and in bringing the flat and pulpy word at its best interaction phase, the touch interface.
The pulpy, mashy world of the Platypus game is a real treat and it also highlights the potential of the iPhone’s interface as a gaming platform.
As for the pure gameplay it has lot of pluses of which defending peaceful Mungola from the swarming Collosatropolans is Read More...
The Cronk caveman app is a prime example of what you can do with the iPhone if you are really imaginative.
The idea behind the app is simple. You just gotta use your tapping skills to save Cronk, the caveman’s house from direct demolition under the crumbling avalanche of rocks.
Just tap on the similar colored rocks and help Cronk save his dear house.
However, not all the rocks are menacing. There are some special rocks in this imaginative world that help you as well.
Gameplay: Putting a simple concept of tapping to break a series/chain, but applying that in a pre-historic sort of Read More...
Link letters using the multi-touch user interface of the iPhone to trace the words hidden within the puzzles and earn points. Also earn hefty points whenever you can create longer words by using the hidden digitized and lexicographic links.
What’s more. scramble the letters by shaking your iPhone. The app also has a very queer number/scoring structure.
Gameplay: Easy to pick up, but really difficult to master. At initial levels the game is pretty easy. But once you enter the more difficult levels the game also becomes suitably intriguing with “timed” tiles and the “buzzwords” at the bottom of the screen. And Read More...
Christmas is just around the corner. And why shouldn’t you play Santa for a while? That seems to be the philosophy behind creating this application.
Concept: Enter the misty, mazy night of Christmas and Santa’s map. The gameplay is simple. Enter each of Santa’s 12 town just by tapping on one of the 12 Santa towns. Delivering gifts is a tap and tilt based color-matching exercise. Tap on the blue, green, red and yellow stars to drop the gift in the houses with corresponding colors. The timing of the taps need to be precise as there is a certain number of Read More...
The fantasy world of Legend of Wizards was voted as the best game for the Windows Mobile by Pocket PC Magazine. And now this game has been ported this game to the iPhone platform as well.
Let’s look, what is in it first:
The theme: A strategy-based game hat ports you to the myriad world of the mythological Orions. In this fantastic world of connected islands –i.e. –the Orions- you will be battling the Orion Lords, fire with fire, or should we say magic with magic. As the game description goes:
You must battle the Orion Lords defeating all that stand in your Read More...
May be to celebrate the 10,000 apps mark and help the searchers in navigating through the mazes of the App Store, Apple has come up with a new idea for the holiday season. They have put up a new section at the iTunes that displays the top apps (in terms of popularity) of 2008 at the App Store. The top 120 apps are there. A small chunk of the 10,000 strong brigade.
The categories chosen are:
Top Overall, Top Games, Top Entertainment, Top Utilities, Top Social Networking and Top Music. All these are organized under two categories – Top Paid Apps at Read More...
Another new week starts at the ever happening App Store. And the "app"alanche continues. Here is a quick rundown of the latest and most interesting new arrivals.
1. Games: Pinch n Pop (iTunes link): A pretty original game with a great splash of color to refresh you. The idea is simple. Push, flick and squeeze your way to fun. Keep pinching to keep the population of self-replicating squirms under control as well as maximize your score with well-timed power-ups. In short, an arcade avatar that is splashed with colors.
2. Healthcare and Fitness: iStayFit (iTunes link): This app in the Healthcare and Read More...
Trace is an innovative concept game where iPhone/iPod touch users create their own trajectory towards the goal in 6 different worlds and 120 different levels. The game is free and comes with innovative music for every level.
Trace is a multi-world, multi-level game sans the endless dazzle of graphics in a gaming space where graphics sometimes threatens to rule over the core content. Trace is a refreshingly new and brilliantly simple game where you interact with the game to chart your own creative trajectories while trying to trace a way to lead a bright red button towards its goal.
How do Read More...
The most popular app category in the App Store is games. For a good reason. Games are perfect for showing off your iPhone, since they make great use of the touch-screen and the accelerometer--and of course they are fun and highly entertaining too.But which is the best game among these? Our IFP team looked around the App Store to see if we could find the best game. But most games become popular on release and then fade away, just looking at the "top games" list would be no good.
We also decided against the game reviews by users in the App Read More...
App name :Hangman
App Category :Games
Price:Free
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Developer : JamSoft
iTunes Link : Click to download
Play with letters and get yourself hanged if you guessed it wrong for 11 times to make out the correct word? The Hangman word guessing game is a merciless, but addictive iPhone game.
Hangman is a word puzzle game. The screen displays all the 26 English alphabets from which you have to make out the right word. A very simple game where you need to do is tap on one letter at a time and fill the spaces on top with the right letters to make a word.
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Category: Game ( Dev. Digicide) Price: $1.99
File Size: 3.9 MB Download Here (iTunes)
Lexitron brings tangibility with textuality. This multilingual word puzzle game challenges you to create words out of the six letters that come out when you start your app and shake the iPhone. Figure out the possible set of words from the letters with at least one six letter word.
Features:
1. Available in English, French, Italian and Spanish
2. More than 80,000 unique English puzzle games.
3. More than 30, 000 puzzles in other languages
4. Automatic saving ofthe users progress.
The game itself is weaved around the usual parameters. High score is based not just on your Read More...
