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Monster Valley

Help Poppy’s jumping monsters! App Store link (0,79 €)

We love Poppy, and we are happy they have a new small game for us. As usual in Poppy’s universe, this new game is easy, really nice and addictive.

The aim is to help monsters cross a valley by placing a bridge where they can jump. Well, I confess, I am not a great player, but it is not so easy as it sounds. From time to time a bird will drop an egg. If it reaches the right side, a new monster will be born!

All I can say: this is a just simple game that you will enjoy. I love poppy.

App Store link (0,79 €) and developer link: Poppy

Level with green wall

A logic strategy game with a good artificial opponent and a nice two player mode. App Store link (1,59 €)

The objective in Artilect is to move the grey circle to the red opponent’s base on the bottom of the game grid. When it’s your turn, you can make one move to the 8 surrounding nodes of the current position. This way you draw a connecting path. If you move to a node that has been visited before, you can make another move and collect extra points. You can not move on a path that has been taken before.

The single player mode starts with simple levels that introduces differend kinds of nodes. Later they start getting real challenging but never frustrating which is why I played Artilect for hours!

App Store link (1,59 €) and developer link: Atomic Cactus

Niklas Old

What will you look like, when your old?. App Store link (2,39 €)

This app generates an animated 3D portrait from a static photo and adds a slider that you can use to adjust your age!

Sounds unbelievable, but it really works. Your foto will be processed by an online service named Motionportrait. It will generate the animated version of the portrait. The face looks around and the eyes blink. Touch the screen and the face will look to your finger.

Using the aging slider will add wrinkles and stains to your face – a shocking effect!

App Store link (2,39 €) and developer link: Website

Grey Blocks

Guide the permanently bouncing Squareball through a horizontal maze and select different coloured blocks. App Store link (0,79 €)

The ball will bounce up and down in the centre of the screen inbetween the walls of a maze. You move the maze horizontally by either dragging it with your finger or tilting the iPhone according to the  control type you chose. You have to collect the green and blue blocks. If the ball leaves the maze through one of the holes in the walls you’ll lose a live. A real fun game with a sweet 8bit soundtrack. Check the gameplay video & screenshots after the jump!

App Store link (0,79 €), lite version and developer link: Drömsynth

Gameplay Video by Drömsynth:

colorbind

A beautiful well crafted puzzle app. App Store link (1,59 €)

Draw the paper “binds” with your finger and make sure they cover all the dots of the corresponding color. Simply rules and nice logical limitations make this game interesting and motivating. The solutions for all the levels look like nice handcrafted art. It’s totally worth the price so don’t you hesitate a second!

App Store link (1,59 €), lite version and developer link: Nonverbal

PositionApp

Find out which are the Top Ten Apps in your Country. App Store link (free)

You probably know ustwo cause they develop cool games like the famous .™ or ..™. Now they have something completely different for us.

In first line, this app is thought as a tool for developers and marketers. But of course, anyone can use it. For example, you can track your favourite App.  Or just discover what people all over the world are buying.

The app is not especially stylish, but the focus is on the information you get. It is interesting that you can circumvent theApp Store for this, and get the same results in a much more transparent way. Actually, PositionApp offers more than the App Store, like the top 300, instead of top 100, or the statistics for the past five months.

The app seems to be free only a limited period of time, so grab it now!

App Store link (free) and developer link: PositionApp by ustwo

Noise

A modular synthesizer in your hand. App Store link (3.99 €)

This synthesizer is not for the faint at heart, but for the rest, it is a great instrument.

I am for sure not the best person to review a music App like this. Note also that this is not an easy App, so if you are just curious or have no idea about synths at all, you’ll probably be frustrated with Jasuto Pro. But don’t forget: you won’t get such a powerful modular synthesizer for 4 euros anywhere else. I will not describe all what Jasuto does or can. It would require to much space. Take a look into the Jasuto site for detailed info on how to use it.

It’s good to see how different developers explore the iPhone capabilities in different ways. It is clear that this App embraces the iPhone as a full-fledged computer. The amount of work invested here is amazing. And I can’t wait to see it on the iPad, which many see as a bigger iPhone. It is indeed interesting how our way of thinking about computers has changed in the last years, and how Apple has contributed to it.

App Store link (3.99 €) and developer link: Chris Wolfe

See some of the noise you can get out of Jasuto Pro in these two videos:

iPhone

Brick up your life! App Store link (free)

With this small toy, you can transform your pics into LEGO bricks. Nothing more, nothing less.

This simple App lets you take photos and convert them into images made of LEGO bricks. Or you can just pick photos from your albums and do the same. Touching the screen will change the colours in a nice wave effect. And you can save your best creations in the photo album, so you can send them by mail, or post them in your blog.

Of course the App does it good. The wave effect is nice and makes the App not so plain. In the end you could ask yourself “Is that all there is?”. But the point here is more how a (free) App is a new way of marketing a product. Using an App for promotion is a clever and user-friendly way of circumventing usual publicity channels. And with the iPad coming soon, I’m sure this kind of Apps will proliferate.

But back to the fun, if you need a template for your next LEGO creation, give it a try.

App Store link (free) and developer link: The LEGO group

Rotating spikes

Tilt the iPhone to move a puck through amazing mazes. App Store link (0,79 €)

This game works a little like the well known labyrinth app. But there are some major differences. The maze is not limited to the screen size. It extends to the upper screen edge. By tilting the iPhone left and right you’re moving the puck left and right and by tilting up and down you’re actually moving the maze while the puck stays in the vertical centre of the screen. This way, there is much more space for a different kinds of obstacles and other gameplay elements.

What’s best about the game is the level design. The levels are diversified and entertaining. All of them introduce new obstacles or combinations of them. This way a new challenge is always ahead.

While the graphical style of the game is dark and heavy the difficulty level is surprisingly fair and easy. The puck reacts smoothly and because of a shield you’re allowed to do mistakes without losing a life immediately. Also the collision detection is generous. The graphics are well crafted and clear in detail.

Some people might say, that ten levels isn’t much, but there’s a bonus level which even offers a whole new graphical style and all new challenges. I think the depths of the game is perfect for the device and because of the density of the level design it’s always fun to play a level again. If you want you can also rise the difficulty level.

So for the price you definitely can’t go wrong with this game. Give it a try!

App Store link (0,79 €) and developer link: 1337 Game Design