I don’t have many games on my iPhone and iPad, but I enjoy sitting down and play something every once in a while. I loved Canabalt, I bought Real Racing when Firemint introduced Retina Display support, I was a die-hard Orbital fan. Oh, and I download the eBoy game, too.
A few days ago I bought a new game in the App Store, Removr.
The guys over at Mutant Games surely know what’s wrong with the App Store. Games about farts, zombies, Chuck Norris. Hitler references, unicorn jokes, more zombie games. This is exactly what’s wrong with the App Store.
And it’s coming all together in a single iPhone game.
You never really think about all that goes into the development of game trailers for iOS. I can understand big game developers like EA having access to superb materials, and I never considered that solo or small-team developers would spend too much on camera and video equipment. Leave it to RazorianFly and the folks from Majic Jungle Software Blog to give us some insight.
You know what’s wrong about to-do lists? They’re boring. Ok, maybe all your to-do stuff is boring - but wouldn’t it be great if it was actually fun and enjoyable? Like, you can’t wait to wash dishes or get that meeting report done.
Epic Win app for iPhone aims at being your ultimate source of Getting Things Done combined with some good role playing.
Many think that Nintendo should start developing games for the App Store, instead of focusing on challenging Apple. I’m one of those too, mainly because I’d love to have some Super Mario on my new iPhone.
Still, it’s not going to happen.
We’ve mentioned Ngmoco’s first iPhone 4 game two days ago, and boy it looks beautiful. The killer feature it’s not how it looks, but how it works.
Aves is a new game engine entirely based on web technologies. It will be used to build 2D / 2.5D videogames running in every browser with modern CSS, HTML and Javascript web standards. It will handle viewports automatically, and - being based on web technologies - the developers promise Aves games will run just fine on the iPad and other iOS, Android and WebOS devices.
But it doesn’t stop at building games with HTML. It’s got some great API stuff we should all look forward to:
“So again, what are action surfaces? As you know, the whole Web 2.0-Idea is actually about sharing and exchanging data using APIs. We have thousands of those in the web today and you can integrate data from Flickr, YouTube, Twitter or Google Maps on your website today by adding a few lines of code.
Guess what? Now you can integrate all those into your games with a mouse click!
If you want to display certain photos from Flickr on an object like a TV-Set you simply tell the Aves Engine that this particular object should have an action surface attached to it and that you want to fill this surface with some data.”
It’s very promising indeed. Check out the official page here, and the demo video after the break. We’ll keep you posted about this.
