Winners – Readers’ App Awards 2015!

Most Visually Impressive

Comic Battle
Comic Battle will lead you through an intergalactic battle. You can choose your team and train them with any combination of over 60 abilities. Build strategies and characters. Challenge players around the world in real time battles. After each battle a unique comic is created that shows the battle. Share your victories in comic form!

“The combat animations are right out of the pages of a comic and make for uniquely entertaining gameplay.” – Jeff Rames

“Beautifully illustrated and engaging artwork.” – Michael Briscoe

“This game was really pretty and there was clearly a lot of attention paid to the menu system and battles themselves.” – Luke Parham

“Ever wanted to battle comic book characters? With Comic Battle, you can! This game is really beautiful, just like playing a comic come to life.” – Joshua Greene

• Author: Josip Petric @JoPetric
• Most useful tutorial: iOS Games by Tutorials
• App Store Link: Check it out!

Grand Prize Winners

I saved the best for last. These two were selected by our judges as the best app and game this year. I present our two Grand Prize Winners!

Best Reader’s Game

Lastronaut
Lastronaut is one of the last humans on earth, running for their life to board the final rocket leaving the planet. And its simply beautiful.

Running in an adrenaline fueled haze with rockets and shotguns abound, you’ve got to dodge everything the sentinel army can throw at you. New weapons fall from the sky as gifts from the heavens to help you fight your way to the last rocket.

“This game is super fun and reminds me of Jetpack Joyride on steroids. I’m a big fan of pixel art, slow motion effects, overpowered weapons, and special effect “juice” and this game has it in spades!” – Ray Wenderlich

“Beautiful graphics, an array of awesome weapons, and addictive side scrolling gameplay make this game a lot of fun. Slow motion explosives make it epic – if you’re the type of person that looks at explosions.” – Jeff Rames

“Retro, faced paced, and beautiful, packed with lot’s of juice. I love this game!” – Michael Briscoe

“This was easily the most fun game. It also just had the best look and feel. A lot of games have a cheesy or half done UI but this game felt like something straight from my Super Nintendo.” – Luke Parham

“Astronauts battling flying tanks using shotguns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers? What more do you need!
The graphics are absolutely beautiful and the game play is really well done. Did I mention laser guns?!” – Joshua Greene

• Author: Darrin Henein @darrinhenein
• Most useful tutorial: How To Build a Monkey Jump Game Using Cocos2d 2.X, PhysicsEditor & TexturePacker – Part 1
• App Store Link: Check it out!

Best Reader’s App

Paste
Copy and Paste as a longtime feature on Macs hasn’t changed much over the years. Paste is a powerful clipboard manager for your Mac that teaches your computer some fancy new tricks.

Paste saves a history of all the things you’ve copied for later. A simple keystroke shows everything you’ve copied in a beautiful fullscreen interface. You can select individual copies to paste them or even share them with other applications You can search your history by content, type, and application it was copied in.

“This is the best clipboard utility I’ve used – it’s integrated and simple while streamlining the task of finding what you need in a large clipboard history.” – Jeff Rames

“This app solve’s a problem I only had a notion was there. Being able to look back through your copy history any time you want is awesome and stops me from having to flip back and forth through windows when looking for something that used to be in my clipboard.” – Luke Parham

“Don’t you hate it when you’re editing something, frequently copying-and-pasting, and accidentally replace a copy you needed? This won’t ever happen again with Paste: get as many copy-and-paste slots as you need. The interface is easy to use and searchable history is a nice feature.” – Joshua Greene

• Author: Dmitry Obukhov @paste_app
• Most useful tutorial: Swift Language Highlights: An Objective-C Developer’s Perspective
• App Store Link: Check it out!

That’s All Folks!

Congratulations to all our winners! All winners get a free PDF of their choice from our site – we’ll be in touch to arrange delivery.

I’d like to thank all our judges who helped me make these difficult picks. And of course thanks to all our readers. We couldn’t have built this amazing community without all of you. Your awesome apps are why we write reviews at all. Looking forward to your apps in 2016!

Don’t forget, if you’ve made an app or game using our tutorials, we’d love to review your app too! Please submit it for next month.

As always, it was a load of fun playing with your apps and getting to see our tutorials in action! Its been another terrific year for apps and we can’t wait to see what you submit next year. Have a Merry Christmas!