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JellyCar surprised a lot of folks with its sudden appearance and bouncy automotive hijinks. So much so that it spawned two well-received sequels. Now JellyCar 3, the most recent of the bunch, has a free trial. Just in case the dollar seems a bit too steep.
Now the incredibly frugal, or those without access to electronic funds (i.e. young-uns) can sample 10 of JellyCar 3‘s levels for free. That’s 10 levels of “squishy goodness” for the same price as lunch when someone else is paying. Of course, if a player were to find the size-adjusting, wiggly, loopy, special ability-having, secret exit filled, car-customizing extravaganza to be irresistible, it’s not exactly super-expensive.
So why not give JellyCar 3 Lite a try since it’s free? It’s not going to cost anything but a bit of time, and chances are it’ll be considered time well spent. I mean, the original was a lot of fun, right?
JellyCar 3 Lite
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-09-07 :: Category: Games
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Run Dog Run Review
By Jason Wadsworth on September 13th, 2011 Our Rating: :: DOG TIRED iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
This running and platforming game is as simple as they come.
Price: $1.99 Version Reviewed: 1.4 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3GS
Graphics / Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Game Controls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Gameplay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Replay Value Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.13 out of 5 stars
Anyone who has spent much time playing iOS games or purusing the iOS games catalog in the App Store is well aquatinted with the running platformer genre of games that made popular by games like Canabalt or more recently, Jetpack Joyride. These are typically very simple games in which the player controls a character that automatically runs forward from one side of the screen to the other. They player then taps the screen to make the character jump (or move in some way) in order to avoid obstacles or jump over pits.
Run Dog Run works in essentially the same way. The player touches the screen to make the dog jump while it runs from left to right along a path of floating islands, the goal being to stay running as long as possible without falling off of the islands. The longer the player holds down their finger, the higher and longer the dog will jump. Players can also double jump, which comes in handy when a previous jump has been miscalculated. Flying in front of the dog on the left hand side of the screen is a bird. This bird will randomly drop eggs which the dog can pick up. These eggs will either speed up or slow down the dogs run, or decrease the amount of gravity which will cause the dog to jump much higher than normal. These pickups are necessarily beneficial to the player because they will often make it harder to execute successful jumps, but they do add some variance to the gameplay.
Run Dog Run is a very simple game, even for a running platformer. The dark, brooding, and almost creepy environments, while gorgeously designed, don’t vary much. The game’s visuals are the high point of the game, though. If the same amount of attention had been given to the gameplay the game may have turned out much better. The dog’s jumps seem very inconsistent as do to the touch controls. This makes it very hard to land jumps successfully. The game looks great but unfortunately it doesn’t play well enough to merit much praise.
run dog run
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Buy Now:$1.99
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Itchy feet? I know the feeling well and it’s not because of poor personal hygiene. Sometimes it’s just nice to get away from it all and discover new lands and cultures. It’s not always as simple as that though which gives an app like TripColor a dual purpose.
For those unable to travel, it’s an app that enables users to browse the blogs of people already on their journeys. Glorious photos can be added to keep everything about the app attractive to look at while a location function means it’s easy to see the path a traveller has taken. Users can browse a variety of different travel blogs but the real benefit stems from keeping track of a friend or family member who’s going on a trip of a lifetime.
That’s where the other purpose comes into play. For the user who’s planning a journey away, not only can they show others their journey but they can keep a diary of all their adventures to look back on at a later date. It’s a pretty neat idea and clearly more fun than using an all purpose blogging tool, with the added benefit of being able to blog without an internet connection.
At the grand price of nothing, this is surely the ideal time to give a different kind of social blogging app a try?
TripColor - Social Travel Sharing and Travel Blogging
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-09-03 :: Category: Travel
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The critter-launching, match three (or more) semi-classic Snood has been something of a mainstay on PC as well as a number of portable devices for some time now. People really like to match colors and clear shapes, I suppose. Just in case there are any folks out there who have avoided this game due to a lack of funds, it’s worth noting that Electronic Arts has decided to release a free version. So no more excuses, really.
Now anyone with an iOS device and a soft spot for flinging critters at other critters of the same hue and watching them cease to exist can try out the oddly-named classic for absolutely zero cost. This isn’t a handful of levels, either. Snood Free contains over one hundred puzzles and five different difficulty settings; much more content than an average “Lite” version. Some concessions had to be made in order to give players some reason to possibly want to buy it (note: it’s a dollar), including ads and the inability to play any multi-player games, but the overall single-player experience doesn’t suffer for it.
Match-three (or more) junkies don’t have any more excuses. They, and anyone else who’s interested, can grab Snood Free on the App Store right now for… well, for free.
SNOOD FREE
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-09-08 :: Category: Games
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Googly eyes on everyone, for everyone!
On This Episode:
Host Carter Dotson talks about Tiny Heroes with Simutronics’ David Whatley and Nathan Lutz. They discuss the concept of the game, what went into the various defenses the game employs, how they had to design the game’s various levels for maximum playability, and what went into the art style of the game. Namely, lots of googly eyes.
Who We Are:
Host: Carter Dotson
Guests: David Whatley and Nathan Lutz, Simutronics
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Turntable.fm, the site that lets you create your own DJ avatar and play music in front of a virtual room of friends or just random folks. If you haven’t used the website, it can be a lot of fun. Specialized rooms can be created, you can invite friends, save favorite songs, and give feedback to the DJ. When you become the DJ you can choose what song others hear. Here’s how the developers describe the experience:
turntable lets you play music together with your friends and other people online. Each DJ takes a turn playing a song and the entire virtual room hears the song. You can vote on whether the song is awesome or lame and if it receives too many lame votes, it gets skipped.
turntable is also truly social. You can chat with people in your room or fan your favorite DJs so that you can find them later. Help people discover new great music or just sit around and listen to the best curated music experience online.
Grab it now and let us know what your favorite room is.
Turntable.fm ~ play music together
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-09-12 :: Category: Music
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Gamers on the iOS platform have seen their share of tower and castle defense games of late, but Clueless Ideas wants them to try just one more – Magic Defenders.
Set in a fantasy realm with hand-drawn art, Magic Defenders features fluid character animations, unique spell animations, three different game modes, leveling up elements, acheivements, Open Feint integration, and a plan to continually add new heroes as time goes on. The story is simple: the Orcs have overtaken the village the hero lives in, and are on their way to the castle. Only the Hero can stop them with his unique abilities and powers.
The video alone is worth a look:
Magic Defenders
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad Buy Now:$1.99 Released: 2011-08-17 :: Category: Games
Still not sure this is their thing, skeptical and money conscious gamers can try their hand at a Lite version of Magic Defenders, for the amazing low price of free. The Lite version has ten waves of Orcs to defeat with one hero and one map – sure enough to give anyone a good sense of whether the game is interesting enough to drop $2 on, right?
Magic Defenders Lite
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-08-29 :: Category: Games
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Last week, NBC announced that their NBC app for the iPad now offers full episodes to, in effect, mirror the functionality of the NBC.com website. In addition, new features such as watching video clips, playing games and scrolling through photos were added to their companion iOS application, NBC Live. The company hopes to bring the social viewing experience to its fans through, obviously, a company branded app.
“We are thrilled to offer our fans full episodes via our NBC.com app. Now the app truly reflects the deep fan experience that we have created online at NBC.com,” said Vivi Zigler, President, NBCUniversal Digital Entertainment. “And our fans are going to love the latest update to the NBC Live app which now offers them more content, better access and a unique social television experience.”
The NBC app and NBC Live app are available for free from the App Store.
NBC
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-06-21 :: Category: Entertainment
NBC Live
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-04-08 :: Category: Entertainment
Not to be outdone, both TNT and TBS have also added support for full episodes, though they still are tied to app users needing to authenticate as cable subscribers. The apps, for both iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch, offer
- Full Episodes of TBS/TNT Series (after authenticating) - Series Episode Guides - Clips and Behind-the-Scenes Video - Show Schedules with Reminders - GetGlue, Facebook and Twitter Integration
TNT for iPad
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-09-08 :: Category: Entertainment
TBS for iPad
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Buy Now:FREE Released: 2011-09-08 :: Category: Entertainment
While this may not be as earth shattering as the news from NBC, you can bet that we are witnessing a new paradigm in television viewing. Apparently, being able to create and control their own portal to their own television content has these companies, and no doubt others to soon follow suit, creating the cable-cord-free future we have all wanted from the outset. While the TNT and TBS offerings still require at least a financial link to cable television companies, the NBC announcement leaves no doubt that TV as we know it is changing forever.
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DrawRace 2 Review
By Carter Dotson on September 13th, 2011 Our Rating: :: SOME DRAWBACKS iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
DrawRace 2 is RedLynx’s sequel to their original line-drawing racing game, now with better graphics, more courses, a turbo mechanic, and online gameplay.
Developer: RedLynx Price: $0.99 Version Reviewed: 1.01 Device Reviewed On: iPod touch 4
Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Game Controls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Gameplay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Replay Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.63 out of 5 stars
With DrawRace 2, RedLynx has returned to one of their first iOS titles, DrawRace, with a sequel that brings shinier graphics, new gameplay mechanics, and new online modes to the original’s “line-drawing meets racing” gameplay mechanic. Similar to the original DrawRace, players must draw lines around the race track in order to determine the racing path. In order to determine speed, players must draw the line faster or slower depending on the speed they want to travel. AS well, there’s now a turbo boost that charges up as players brake and round corners.
The online multiplayer aspects are wonderful. There’s a World League mode that features four race challenges that cycle every 24 hours. Players try to raise their skill level by beating the times of at least two players who have higher skill ranks and faster times than them. This asynchronous multiplayer represents the strongest replay value aspect of the game, even more than the lengthy campaign mode. There’s also the ability to create custom leagues with Game Center friends to race the best time against them. However, the game doesn’t list Game Center friends who have played the game, just all friends, and it can be very annoying when the game endlessly prompts that notifications can’t be sent to Game Center friends who haven’t played the game.
On the smaller iPhone/iPod touch screens, this game is very difficult to play, as there’s just not a lot of finger room to draw accurate race paths, especially on more challenging levels. Those who have an iPad would do well to play the HD version instead of this one. Cornering is a very, very difficult art to master, and skidding out of control on tracks is a very challenging hump to get over. It takes a lot of the fun out of this game at times, as it feels like even going slow around corners leads to messing up entirely. It just feels like I’d rather play a real racing game than to leave myself up to the mercy of line-drawing.
Between the detailed visuals, great amount of content, and the peerless asynchronous multiplayer features, there’s a lot to like about DrawRace 2. However, the gameplay mechanic leaves a lot to be desired. It may just be a matter of whether it ‘clicks’ with people. It never quite clicked for me, and while I can appreciate the work that went into the game, I find it difficult to recommend, though it’s not a terrible risk at $0.99 for the iPhone/iPod touch version, and the asynchronous multiplayer is intriguing enough on its own.
DrawRace 2
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Buy Now:$0.99