Developer: Press OK Entertainment
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4
Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.88 out of 5 stars
Feed Al offers physics based puzzles – a genre about which I’m sure you’re thinking, “oh great, another one.” The true selling point here is twofold, though. First of all, it’s from the guys who made Finger Physics, which has to be good news. Second of all, it offers a rather funky location-based high score system which goes on to help you within the game.
The actual game is pretty good fun. It’s down to you to get a small globe from one side of the screen to the other while collecting stars along the way. You can make the globe bounce off structures through the use of moveable objects which can then divert the globe into the path of the collectible stars. Collect stars, earn points. Simple stuff but fun. Some levels add a further twist by locking the end of the level, forcing you to ensure you hit the key along the way. Other oddities are abound too such as some platforms instantly wiping you out, some platforms can be destroyed and others affecting the way you bounce. Rather than work on a level by level basis, everything is seamless which makes a pleasant change.
It’s all good, solid physics based fun and that fact alone makes for a satisfying experience. Throw in the location based high score system, PlacePlay, and things become that bit more interesting. PlacePlay homes in on your location and allows you to have local leaderboards. Placing high on your local leaderboard offers you points which can then be used to buy boosts to help you in the rest of the game. These boosts aid you by providing things like a wall to stop you falling to the side, lock removal tools and more. They’re not essential for success but they help you a treat. The idea of competing with people locally is great, although I suspect due to where I live, I won’t have much competition. In big cities though, it’ll be immensely satisfying to top the leaderboard.
Feed Al is really good fun. It offers a quirky appearance with a great leaderboard concept within PlacePlay, as well as satisfying puzzles to complete. It’s really worth a look. It’s almost certainly going to hook you.
As a person that works on a computer for a living, I will have to cop to sometimes lacking a smidgen in the social norms and common sense department. Though I am no social ignoramus, there comes a time when a person that you are conversing with is harder to read than a left turn sign from the cockpit of a race car. It is moments like this that having a app to do the heaving lifting for you might be a handy aid. Thus, the Mind Scan Camera was born.
Never again will you be left scratching your head over confusing body language, because the development team over at BlueFinger, Inc. has developed an innovative emotion analysis technology. With recognition for up to ten different emotions, all you need to do is import an image into this handy little app and it does all of the rest. In another awesome perk of the software, they even added in a beta version of their real-time scanning software for no additional cost! Here is a video that promotes some of the key features:
Okay, I am going to level with you, this may not be the most cutting edge piece of software that ever graced the App Store, but it sure is neat. Impressive as the tech may be, it is pretty evident that the functionality will be gimmicky at best. That said, there is quite a bit of fun that could be had at another person’s expense, using a entertaining toy like this.
If nothing else, Mind Scan Camera could make one heck of a conversation piece at a party. “Why hello there beautiful lady. What seems to be troubling you? How did I know that? Let me show you this neat app.” The rest is history, just be sure that you name your beautiful nerd/supermodel hybrid children after me.
Give the app a download. Who knows? It might just change your life!
Developer: East Coast Pixels
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4
iPhone Integration Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.67 out of 5 stars
MobileMonet manages to be both useful and fun to mess around with. Not bad at all for an inexpensive photography app. Unlike other photography apps, MobileMonet doesn’t try to do everything – it focuses on just one thing and does it extremely well.
Load a photo into the app by either picking it out from your photo album or taking a snap directly, and get to work. MobileMonet generates a black and white sketch of your image thus allowing you to restore color whether you wish. This can make for some fantastic effects as you can see in the screenshots. You can bring color to the focus of the photo such as your child or pet for example, or bring out the red of a car and leave the rest of the photo black and white. It really does look good, and it’s very easy to do.
It’s a simple matter of moving your finger across where you want the color to appear, just like a brush. The more you brush an area, the more depth is added to that area and its coloring. You can adjust how vibrant and bright the color is as well as the line intensity and how grey and black you want the image to look. If you change your mind about something, an undo button is always on hand making things easier to experiment with.
Facebook, email and SMS support is included so you can directly send your photos from within the app. It would have been nice if Twitter integration had been included also though.
MobileMonet is a very simple app but one that produces fantastic results for very little effort. I was truly impressed by some of the results I garnered and I’ve got a real urge to put the 500 or so photos in my album through the system, just to see how it looks. Give this app a shot, you won’t be disappointed.
I have longed for World of Goo for the iPhone and then the iPad for literally years now. Hard to believe it’s been that long. The model of the game has just seemed perfect for a touch interface. Having played through the game three times on three different platforms (Wii, PC, Mac), I just wanted more. My PC is packed up. It’s loaded down with so much anti-virus software it can hardly be used anymore. My Wii has, like most Wii consoles, an inch of dust on top of it. And my Mac, well when I sit down at my Mac I see I have 1,000 unanswered emails. Makes me feel too guilty to play World of Goo anymore. I want it on my new cool device of choice, the iPad!
Well that day has finally come. 2DBoy were kind enough to send us a final build of the World of Goo for the iPad. And I’m in heaven. I had to stop playing long enough to finish this preview, but after this is done, I’m right back to it.
World of Goo for the iPad is the full game that you know and love. But what about if you’ve been living under a rock. What is the game about? Well, it’s a physics based puzzle game. One where you build structures out of these interconnected goo balls.
You start out not really knowing what the story is. You are just presented with a silhouetted world, the World of Goo. On the first level of Chapter 1 you are presented with a simple structure and a few goo balls roaming around. Your task is to help these goo balls escape via a vacuum tube at the top of the screen. To do this, you need to build a structure by dragging these balls, making connecting points, and thereby building structures that the free roaming goo balls can travel on.
Sounds harder to understand than it really is. It’s pretty easy to get a handle on once you have played a couple levels. Take a look at the following video and it will all make sense.
Seems simple enough, right? The difficulty does ramp up considerably. And alone the multiple chapters and levels you’ll encounter new types of goo balls. Some float, some are rubbery. All produce new challenges.
For a little background on the game, take a look at this promo video produced by the filmmakers behind Indie Game: The Movie, an in production movie about indie game developers.
World of Goo has something so many games are missing, personality, finish. It’s a great game, and it’s great to finally have it on the iPad. World of Goo in all it’s gooey glory releases on December 16th for the iPad at $9.99.
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The actual game is pretty good fun. It’s down to you to get a small globe from one side of the screen to the other while collecting stars along the way. You can make the globe bounce off structures through the use of moveable objects which can then divert the globe into the path of the collectible stars. Collect stars, earn points. Simple stuff but fun. Some levels add a further twist by locking the end of the level, forcing you to ensure you hit the key along the way. Other oddities are abound too such as some platforms instantly wiping you out, some platforms can be destroyed and others affecting the way you bounce. Rather than work on a level by level basis, everything is seamless which makes a pleasant change.
Load a photo into the app by either picking it out from your photo album or taking a snap directly, and get to work. MobileMonet generates a black and white sketch of your image thus allowing you to restore color whether you wish. This can make for some fantastic effects as you can see in the screenshots. You can bring color to the focus of the photo such as your child or pet for example, or bring out the red of a car and leave the rest of the photo black and white. It really does look good, and it’s very easy to do. 
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