Readers’ App Reviews – October 2012
This is a post by Reader’s Apps Reviewer Ryan Poolos, an iOS Developer and founder of Frozen Fire Studios. Checkout his latest game, Cyborg Livestock. Checkout his latest website, iHelp. You guys have been very hard at work making a ton of awesome apps and games. We had over 60 submissions this month! This month […] By Ryan Poolos.
Speed Kittens
“…if you have ever seen a kitten on a jet pack you’ve probably noticed how clueless they can be when it comes to ace fighter pilot aviation.”
Speed Kittens is a squad of jet pack ladden kittens on a mission, protect their milk from zepplins!
No one knows why Fat Cat Meowski the Fifth passed the Hover Milk Act of 3586 AD, but it calls for all milk to be strapped to zepplins and fly around forever out of reach. Until jet packs were invented of course!
Aim your floating kittens like rockets and take down the zepplins and end the milk tyranny once and for all!
- Author: Marcus Schwab @SpeedKittens
- Most useful tutorial: How To Make A Simple iPhone Game with Cocos2D
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Swipe Bomb
This game has one purpose, pick up bombs and drop them in the safe zone.
This simple additive game can put your reflexes to the test as the screen fills with multicolored bombs waiting to blow. Use all your fingers to grab as many as you can for combos.
Four maps and a bonus round will keep you occupied long before you run out of bombs.
- Author: Joey Hengst @studdervof
- Most useful tutorial: How To Drag and Drop Sprites with Cocos2D
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Tipsy Meter
Often wonder if you’ve had one too many?
Well Wonder no longer, Tipsy meter can help you and your friends measure your addiction while making hilarious comments about your issues along the way (trust me, I know from experience) :]
Using a stabiliy test to check your hand eye coordination and a walking test to see if you can handle a straight line. Tipsy meter takes full advantage of the accelerometer in your pocket to determine just how much you should be texting your mom tonight.
And of course, no app would be complete without the ability to share your embarassing problem on Facebook and Twitter! :]
- Author: Abdul Azeem @abdul_azeem
- Most useful tutorial: iOS 5 by Tutorials
- App Store Link: Check it out!
War7
War7 is a unique strategy game where you drop numbered disks onto a 7×7 grid.
The disks are destroyed if the row or column contains that disk’s number of disks. Gray numberless disks appear at the bottom over time. Blowing up a disk near them one will crack them, a second time will reveal a hidden number underneath.
Survive as long as you can with three challenging game types. Including an awesome multiplayer where you and your opponent are fed the exact same disks. To make it even more intriguing, you can hurl powerups at your opponent to mess with their strategy, opening even more stategies!
May the best strategy win!
- Author: Kaan Dedeoglu @kaandedeoglu
- Most useful tutorial: How To Make a Simple Multiplayer Game with Game Center Tutorial: Part 2/2
- App Store Link: Check it out!
WordFiends Free
Race against the clock to create as many words as possible in this tile based word building game.
Simply drag your finger to connect tiles and form words. the bigger the word the more points you’ll get. Play again Facebook friends, random strangers, or other friends with Wordfiend accounts in turn based multiplayer.
Keep an eye out for any bonus tiles to boost your score and send your opponents packing! Don’t forget to brag on Facebook and Twitter after!
- Author: Ngoan Nguyen @wordfiends
- Most useful tutorial: Apple Push Notification Services Tutorial: Part 1/2
- App Store Link: Check it out!
U.F.Oinkers
I just lost so many bets its not even funny… flying pigs are here.
In this physics based game your goal is to make pigs fly by dragging them into sets of wings. But you’ve got to be careful, the chain bridge is very flimsy and can only hold so many fat pigs before it breaks!
You get to collect food along the way to keep you pigs happy and gain extra points. But don’t let it sit, we all know how food in the back of the fridge looks after a few days so eat it fast!
Oh and watch out for zombie pigs, that is all.
- Author: George Tonev @SerendiBits
- Most useful tutorial: How To Debug Memory Leaks with XCode and Instruments Tutorial
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Honorable Mentions
Here are the apps that didn’t get reviewed. Remember it wasn’t a popularity contest or even a rating contest. Forum members got priority among other factors. Your apps were great and I’m sorry we didn’t have time to review them all!
Where To Go From Here?
That’s it for October! Keep up the awesome work everyone. And if you’re reading this thinking, “I wish I could build a great app/game”. You’re in luck! Check out our free Tutorials! What are you waiting for, I want to see your app or game next month!
As always, it has been hard to pick which apps to showcase. In the end priority was given to active readers and forum members. This column isn’t a ranking or contest. We only highlight the apps to point out our readers, who have put in a lot of hard work on these apps – and it shows! Be sure to check out the honorable mentions to see the rest of the awesome apps!
If you are a reader of this site and would like to be considered for this column, click here!
I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with next month! :]
This is a post by Reader’s Apps Reviewer Ryan Poolos, an iOS Developer and founder of Frozen Fire Studios. Checkout his latest game, Cyborg Livestock. Checkout his latest website, iHelp.