Today we are bringing you a review of the iPhone game Bobby Carrot Forever. For almost 5 years now, mobile gamers have been hoppin’ around with Bobby Carrot. Now FDG Entertainment has ported Bobby Carrot 5 to the iPhone OS under the title Bobby Carrot Forever. The AppSmile Team has been spending quite a bit of time with this impatient little rabbit. Here are our impressions.
First of all, the Bobby Carrot series consists of puzzle strategy games that will certainly put your noggin through the ringer. The goal of these adventures is to guide Bobby around each level while collecting carrots, avoiding traps and obstacles, and in the end finding the magic exit. For the iPhone, FDG has implemented three control methods to move Bobby around. They are explained in the built-in video tutorials but basically involve 1) swiping your finger in the desired direction, 2) touching the screen in all 4 sides, or 3) using a virtual D-pad. Personally, we opt for the finger swipe method.
FDG has thought this game through in terms of menu designs, character development, and instructions. Upon entering the game, you are presented with a help screen that walks you through every single item and obstacle. This is essential because tons of items can be gathered and some obstacles are overcome only using particular tools. For example, Bobby can employ a riding lawn mower to plow down weeds and access blocked sections of a level. First though, he needs to have obtained a gas can to activate the mower. In addition, certain areas can only be traversed once before they trigger a trap that prevents return. These and other features present quite a challenge. If you have a short attention span, Bobby Carrot Forever may quickly frustrate you. On the other hand, if you’re up for a workout, Bobby Carrot will keep you busy for some time.
There are 6 worlds to explore – each presumably containing a golden carrot. Obtain all 6 and get the Memory Paintbrush. An approach we found handy is to zoon out to get an overview of the entire level. Then plan Bobby’s moves in your mind to make sure you don’t put him in an inescapable position. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself hitting the Reset button constantly.
We think FDG has created a quality character in Bobby Carrot over the years, and we’re glad to see he made his way to the iPhone. AppSmile has been informed by FDG that the App Store will see more iPhone games under the Bobby Carrot moniker soon. They are porting all the classic Bobby Carrot games to the iPhone starting with chapter 1 by the end of March.
Want to get a head start? Give Bobby Carrot Forever a try.
Here’s our AppSmile List of Favorite Game Elements:
* Extensive instructions with an invitation to email the developers with questions
* Appealing artwork with high quality look and feel
* Menu access within the game – sounds simple but you’d be surprised how often this is left out
* Several levels within each of the 6 worlds
* Bundled video tutorials
* An array of control options
What Frustrated the AppSmile Team:
* Difficult game play situations early on requiring lots of level restarts
* It took us “forever” to find our way through World 1 Level 2
* No checkpoint available to begin from when restarting a level
* Jerky panning when trying to view an entire level
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The iTunes App Store is loaded with puzzle games. In fact, this was primarily the first game style to arrive when the App Store went public. So, the question is – can anything noteworthy still be created in the puzzle game genre? If you have your doubts…you need to check out Ancient Frog. Ancient Workshop brought out this ambidextrous amphibian on February 11, 2009.
He hopped on to our AppSmile iPhones this week so we’ve had some time to poke around with him.
The point of Ancient Frog is to manipulate your toad just so for him to catch a fly that’s right out of reach – and probably driving him nuts! Drag the hands and feet (or are they paws?) with your finger. The tough part is that you can only move one appendage at a time and there are designated locations to place them. Moving one hand to a certain place may prevent you from moving a foot to another place later. So, much thought and planning is involved in deciding how to get to the fly. Check out our game play video below to see what we mean.
When you start the game for the first time, you’ll be presented with instructions. These explained a lot and can be found if you ever go back to the first level. Kinda confusing, but it works.
Ancient Frog boasts 100 levels and 6 different frog species. This will keep you busy for a while since the puzzles get increasingly difficult. There isn’t a time limit, thank goodness, but Par is provided in each puzzle. Par means the number of moves it “should” take you to get to the fly.
The frog renderings are beautiful and the movement is realistic. You should be impressed with the sound effects. They put you right in the middle of the Amazon.
Our AppSmile team anticipates that this game will be hoppin’ to the top of the iTunes Apps list in no time.
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Our AppSmile Team is suffering from the winter blues here in icy Detroit. So when we can pick up our iPhones and enjoy the virtual sunshine while racing wave runners, we’re all over that! And that’s the whole point of Aqua Moto Racing. Resolution Interactive launched Aqua Moto Racing into the iTunes App Store on February 21, 2009 and it’s been selling well ever since.
This games is all about customization, web connectivity, and full-throttle racing!
Customization
Users are presented with a choice of up to 5 Profiles to customize. The Profile screen displays that user’s number of Trophies Collected as well as his or her total progress in the game. You can also choose your Appearance (Rider color and Vehicle Color).
Under the Options tab on the Main Menu, players can vary the Master Volume, SFX Volume, Music Volume, and Input Sensitivity.
Web Connectivity
When you create a new Profile, you can create an account with Resolution Interactive. Then you can choose if you want your stats uploaded to their server and displayed on the Rankings tab of the Main Menu – pretty cool. Resolution has also informed AppSmile that they are seriously looking into a Wi-Fi multiplayer feature. Hopefully they will have this done by the next AMR upgrade. Cool!
Full-Throttle Racing
All right, now to the good stuff – Racing! Races take place in Championships and Time Trials. There are 6 Championships that test your skill from Beginner Stock (easy) to Pro Open (hard). Within each Championship are a number of race courses. You need to get first place in one Championship in order to unlock the next. Championship wins gain you points that can be used for tuning you watercraft. Once you successfully complete a Championship, those courses are also unlock and available to race in the Time Trial section.
Steering is accomplished through the accelerometer and your watercraft’s acceleration is controlled automatically. You’ll need to get steering down pat as buoys have to be passed on the left and right to guide you through the course. Sharper turns can be made by touching the screen’s left side (brake). Push the right side of the screen to boost your watercraft past opponents. Raise your Boost levels by properly passing buoys. Another way is by performing mid-air tricks. Just quickly tilt the iPhone up when jumping to activate Stunt Mode. There are six different stunts you can perform. Tap the bottom of the iPhone screen to get a rear view. Don’t hold this too long or you’ll get disoriented. Just hold it long enough to see where the other racers are behind you. This comes in handy since AMR doesn’t display a overview map.
The reaction of your watercraft while racing as amazing. You’ll think you’re actually on the water. The graphics are also outstanding. Resolution dotted all the i’s when they designed in water reflections, waves, splash effects, and virtual buoyancy. The racer interaction also deserves another “well done.”
The iPhone is quickly becoming the mobile gamers’ device of choice. And that’s because of games like Aqua Moto Racing.
AppSmile Favorite Features:
One of the few water racing games for the iPhone OS
Realistic game play
Superb graphics
Lots of options and customization
Future updates coming…
Great Music
AppSmile Recommended Improvements:
Cannot override game music with iTunes music
Include multiple watercraft types to choose from like stand-up Jet Skis
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Toki Tori has been hunting for his unborn family for almost 10 years now! Actually, more than that if you count his days as Eggbert. What’s been his major hold-up? You! That’s right, he needs you to help him – and soon you’ll be able to do just that on your iPhone! You’ve probably at least heard of Toki Tori if you’re a Wii fan. The game just made its debut on Wii last year, but it’s been around a lot longer than that on the Game Boy Color platform. Now he’s coming to your iPhone and AppSmile.com has gotten preview of what he’ll be doing there.
Developer Two Tribes is porting this famous little chicken to the iPhone sometime this quarter of 2009. We’ve had a chance to play around with Toki Tori and think you’re gonna love him!
Toki Tori is a platformer style puzzle game. The goal is to find and collect all of his un-hatched siblings while working your way through each world. Sound easy? Once you get into it, you’ll find there actually is quite a bit of strategy involved. You see, Toki goes where you tell him, but he can’t overcome certain obstacles without the use of items. Items are obtained as you graduate to different levels. Some items can only be utilized at certain times, while others can only be used once. Use them wisely, or Toki Tori will get stuck and will have to restart the level. Levels get progressively more difficult and in some there is only one route to collecting all the eggs.
As in the Wii version, the game has four worlds with multiple levels in each: Forest Falls, Creepy Castle, Slimy Sewer, and Bubble Barrage. All worlds contain similar game play but have unique environments, enemies, and soundtracks.
We can tell this Two Tribes is very close to release because the graphics and music are incredibly refined. Toki Tori has highly rendered visuals that will convince you that this is no run-of-the-mill app. In fact, they will definitely challenge the Nintendo DS hands down. The menus are well designed and each level provides you with pointers on how to proceed successfully. You’ll even be presented with opportunities to learn how to use items.
We can’t wait for Two Tribes to release Toki Tori to the iTunes App Store soon. Until then, that little guy will have to wait for your help finding his family (unless you’ve got a Wii). Keep checking back at AppSmile.com as we’ll let you know when we find out more news. In the meantime, checkout our video preview of Toki Tori on the iPhone.
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It’s been 15 years since IBM released the Simon, the world’s first smartphone, to the public. Smartphones have since evolved into bona fide pocket computers with lots of processing power and slick user interfaces. And they’re not just for business users anymore, with recreational users flocking to Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s recent Nseries releases.
With these shifts in the smartphone market, the terminology used to classify these phones is becoming insufficient, and possibly inaccurate. There is certainly debate about whether the iPhone is a smartphone or glorified iPod with a built-in phone. buy cell phone online
A similar shift is occurring in the feature phone category as the traditionally low-end phones are beefed up to appeal to consumers who want more than voice and text functionality in their handsets. There appears to be a new battleground forming, where feature phones and smartphones are competing for the same customers.
DEFINING THE SMARTPHONE
The definition of a smartphone is changing. Early models like the Simon were sold as phones with built-in PDA and modem functionality. Even now, Sprint’s Web site segregates “PDA/Smartphone” handsets. But industry analysts says it’s the smartphone’s operating system (OS), allowing users to run third-party applications, that sets it apart.
Analyst Neil Strother of Forrester Research sees the ability to access the Web and download apps, a large storage capacity and a qwerty keyboard as other features common to a lot of smartphones.
And it is exactly these features that are becoming more common in the feature phone market. The LG Voyager and Motorola Krave have Web and e-mail access, touch screens with qwerty keyboards (the Krave’s is virtual) and microSD card slots capable of storing 8 GB.
According to John Jackson, vice president of research at CCS Insight, there may be a proliferation of these types of feature phones. “Smartphones are generally more expensive and in today’s economy, when people have smaller budgets, they will look for a phone that walks like a smartphone and talks like a smartphone, but has a lower price tag.”
In fact, Jackson believes that the term smartphone is already redundant. “Do you really care [if you are buying a smartphone]? As long as you can update your Facebook status.” So what naming conventions will be used? “There may be an entirely different lexicon. Product names could reflect the utility that it supports.” Anyone for a Facebook phone?
Ira Frimere, Nseries project manager at Nokia, puts an emphasis on the need for smartphone features to be integrated with services. Nokia’s mechanism for this service is Ovi.com, which allows users to share photos, buy music, view maps and back up contacts directly from their phone. “There will always be a market for voice-only, text-only or even Web-only phones, but we think that the convergence of features with services is popular with our customers, so we’re moving in that direction.” buy cell phone
This is the AppSmile review of the game Bounce On for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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If you have been looking for a side-scrolling platformer game for your iPhone or iPod Touch, you should be very happy with Bounce On!
Team Phobic released Bounce On to the iTunes App Store on December 20th, 2008. While the initial release left a lot to be desired, Team Phobic has been loyally updating the game ever since. With these frequent updates, Bounce On is quickly becoming one of our favorite iPhone games here at AppSmile headquarters.
So what’s the game all about?
You play as a bouncy ball that has gotten lost after falling out of a pocket. Your goal is to make it through 30 Levels (so far) and find your home safely.
Bounce On makes your trip home quite a bit of fun. You will encounter well-designed enemies, power-ups, and free lives along the way. Collect diamonds throughout each level to gage your skill. Team Phobic has also provided a thumping soundtrack. The music is good and shuffles between 2 songs in each world. We hope more are on the way. It would be nice if Team Phobic included a unique song for each level.
Game control is intuitive and responsive. The accelerometer is used to move left, right, up, and down and touching the screen makes the character jump. We love that the developers allowed the jump height to be controlled by how long you touch the screen. Great feature. Jump to avoid enemies and advance through different stages of the board. You can also jump on enemies to defeat them.
With a lack of worthwhile platform-type game in the App Store, Bounce On will instantly be compared to the current king Rolando. Actually, we think Bounce On gives Rolando a run for it’s money. While Roland gives a more professional graphic experience, Bounce On stays truer to a side-scroller and you might find the controls less frustrating.
Let’s run down our favorite features…
Great Features:
* 4-song soundtrack is polished
* Pleasing graphics and Over World
* Lots of power-ups and additional lives well placed throughout boards
* 2 15-level Worlds and more to come!
* Well designed characters
* Excellent controls
* Addictive game play
* Lots of updates from Team Phobic
Weaknesses:
* Only 4 Songs
* When active your main character is expressionless
* Only a handful of sound effects
* No points for defeating enemies
* Lack of big bosses at the end of each World
When Team Phobic released Bounce On they offered 15 levels in one world. Soon World 2 was available as a free update providing 15 additional levels. Now the developers are promising World 3 sometime in March. We can’t wait!
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Sway is a new kind of iphone game. If you’re a gamer like us and you’re looking for something new, you should definitely consider this game.
After much anticipation, Illusion Labs released Sway into the iTunes App Store on February 25th, 2009.
The story’s main character is Lizzy the Lizard, a resident of a fictional place called…you guessed it, Sway! The evil character, Wiz, has destroyed the land and now your job is to help Lizzy find her friends somewhere in the Galaxy. Once you save Lizzy’s friends (such as Ninja Man, Stitches, Box Boy, and more…) they become unlocked and then can join in the swaying.
Here at AppSmile, we haven’t seen any other game for the iPhone that has controls like this. Illusion Labs takes a chance by introducing a new type of game control. Hopefully, it’s not to polarizing for their casual gaming audience. Character movement is accomplished by swiping your thumbs across the screen. This swings the character around as you progress through each level. Don’t let go of the screen too long or you could fall to your doom! Admittedly, there is a learning curve to the control scheme. If you don’t have the patience to learn it, you’ll get frustrated quickly. But the controls can be learned rather easily and then it’s up to you to master them and save your buds. If you need help, a tutorial video is included.
The game’s replay capability is enhanced by the addition of medals which gauge how you did in each board. Is it worth it to collect all the stars for a higher metal, or just manage to make it through the board? You decide. Either way, Sway provides you with an opportunity to go back and do better next time.
Interestingly, Illusion Labs has altered the finger swipe reaction of each character, so its worth is to unlock and try them out.
It’s clear that these developers spent a lot of time and effort on the graphics and movement of the game (more so than the storyline). The characters are very doll-like and it’s as if you can almost feel them in your hands. The textures are well implemented creating a handsome experience.
If you want an iphone game that will show off your prowess to your friends, Sway sounds up your ally.
Here’s a run-down of what we like and dislike about the game…
AppSmile Favorite Features:
* Control experience like no other on the iPhone
* Amazing animation of character movement
* Music matches character and overall game feeling of cuteness
* Multiple characters to unlock and control
* Wonderful menu UI design
What AppSmile wants fixed:
* We would like to see a broader soundtrack (so far one song spread across all levels)
* Better character development (these guys look great but it would be nice to know them a little better)
* No enemies during game play – only obstacles
* More levels please
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All the rumors have finally died down and many skeptics have tightened their lips, the video player does support video format now on its newest generation. Video playback capabilities have made it a complete multi media equipment, but not all formats are supported just yet. So if you want to put your mp4 in your iPod you have to make sure that they are in a supported format.
But don’t worry, you can convert your movie into the supported format so you can still upload and watch it in your media player video. The Converter media player Video is a very good video converter suitable for your video player and its needs. It offers a simple and comprehensive way on how to convert all of the popular video formats to iPod video, like transforming AVI to iPod, Mpeg to media player and WMV to iPod. Not only that, this also features the ability to transfer audio files with WAV, MP2 etc. to iPod supported with mp3 configurations.
All the conversions procedures are very speedy and simple to do. And the product of this video conversion is supported by the iPod system requirements and configurations so you can enjoy watching your favorite movie, home mp4, music movie and whatever it is you desire on your media player.
There are numerous converters for the iPod video available in the internet. The following are some of the general features of a converter video video player which all of the iPod enthusiasts and fanatics should know:
1. This tool has the capacity to transfer AVI in to the video player file.
You are able to convert AVI to iPod format that is supported by the video file. There are many set ups which you can use to attain an excellent video and audio quality.
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The converter iPod video is a WMV converter too that makes it possible to transfer WMV to media player.
3. It can transfer mpeg, mov, mp4 and asf file
The converter ipod video is also mpeg and mp4 converter. It has the ability to transfer mpeg file, mp4 and asf into the media player.
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This software supports all famous formats to media player and removing audio from video and transfer it to iPod supported mp3 file format. By simply choosing the files that you want to transfer, the converter iPod video will automatically program those, regardless even if the files have a different format.
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The software allows the user to choose the start point and intervals from a whole file.
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We are publishing here the video tour to the lovely Apple iPhone 3G and you can catch up with the previous videos about 3G iPhones here:
The final episode is published here…
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For all those who come to this blog for the first time we would like to give a quick update – this is a place where people find useful info about Apple iPhone products, downloads, applications and more. We highly recommend you to start the reading of our blog from this post Free iPhone Download Tips – iPhone Mobile Review, because this one of the most necessary things for the iPhone industry.
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