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Boost Your Reactions

jmcclain0129 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:21:21 +0000

Boost Your Reactions for iPhone – Creat Studios, Inc

On first glance, Boost Your Reactions gives the impression of a professionally done medical app meant for physiotherapy or even for sports physicians to track the reaction speeds of top athletes. However, this is not the case as Boost Your Reactions is but a game targeted at anyone and everyone with the intention of testing the reaction limits of his or her body.

Test Yourself

When the app starts Boost Your Reactions asks users for their age and gender, perhaps to tailor make a program specifically for that age group. This is one feature that adds bonus points to the app.

Gender selection

There are two different game modes, a Self Test and a Training mode for practice. While essentially the same thing with identical features and all, both modes come with an array of options on how users would like to take the test. Different options churn out different types of stages for players.

Boost your reaction options

A library option is also available, redirecting users to the developers’ website where they may learn about how the brain and its reactions work.

Self test mode warning

An in-app store is also available for future updates and upgrades that may be made available for purchase.

Motion test

In terms of presentation, Boost Your Reactions does a great job in a sense that while sophisticated it does not look cluttered. Navigation is a breeze, with the necessary buttons placed prominently in their respective places without being blocked by unsightly banners amongst other things.

End of tutorial

For $0.99 this is one app that is worth the dollar. There really is nothing to complain about for this app, because it serves its intended purpose so well.

Pros:

Ease of use
Entertaining with different types of ‘tests’ available
Presentation is visually appealing

Rating: 4.5/5

Tiki Toss 3D

jmcclain0129 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:07:55 +0000

Developed by Mellow Militia, Tiki Toss 3D is an exciting new app available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices. Kick back and relax, watch the surf, enjoy the music. It’s time for some Tiki Toss 3D!

Gameplay is simple and fun! Swipe to swing the ring and hook a ringer on the tiki board! Tiki Toss puts you in an immersive beachside scene complete with tons of details from perfect surf and chirping seabirds to a full tiki bar and fresh island music!

This relaxing beachside game is a digital rendition of the classic island hook-and-ring game. Complete with 3D graphics, the addictive game-play provides a ton of fun, while tempting your competitive nature. With score sharing and 3 different gameplay modes you can check out global leaderboards whether you’re Amateur or Pro. You can even earn score multipliers and “double down” on your current score in Arcade mode! Best experienced with headphones, Tiki Toss 3D features full length tracks by popular island artists and sound effects that keep the player engaged.

Visually striking scenery, cheering friends and the calming rumble of breaking surf combine to offer an element of escape while enjoying casual gaming competition.

Get ready to mellow out and spend the day soaking up the sun, beachside. Let Tiki Toss 3D transport you to the islands today!

IMMERSIVE 3D ATMOSPHERE
Combines striking scenery, cheering friends and the relaxing rumble of breaking surf, and even a tiki bar.

FUN ANIMATIONS
True-to-live swing and rope animations, rolling waves, surfing and a gentile island breeze

3 GAMEPLAY MODES
Best of Ten: See how many ringers you can score out of 10 tosses.
Session: No toss limit so try to get a run of ringers.
Arcade: Earn extra tosses, score multipliers, and even bet all your points on a single toss if you’re feeling skillful!

NEW AND POPULAR MUSIC
Features awesome full length reggae and bossa tracks with available in-app purchase links

SKILL BUILIDING
Go Pro for the ultra-realisic game.

8GB+ iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone 3G/S/4 running iOS 3.0+

Kaptain Brawe – It’s A Brawe New World: G5 Entertainment

jmcclain0129 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:21:40 +0000

Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World (Full) – G5 Entertainment

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Kaptain Brawe – A Brawe New World is an epic based adventure play where a space cop Kaptain Brawe needs to rescue two alien scientists. This engaging as well as humorous gameplay has been developed by G5 Entertainment. ‘Kaptain Brawe- A Brawe New World’ runs on devices using Apple’s iOS Version 3.0 or later (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad).

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The game starts with how humans have progressed and made their presence in space by exploring new planets and other objects in the universe. Inter-space travel has resulted in space hijackers and kidnappers, and space police to control them. The game makes you the super confident and brave space cop, Kaptain Brawe. My mission was to rescue 2 alien scientists who had been kidnapped. It all sounded very serious but as I progressed the storyline became quite entertaining.

The game has been set in 4 unique planet surroundings. There are over 40 different locations in the gameplay with amazing graphics for each. So there I go jumping into the spacecraft.

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Kaptain Brawe keeps switching between three characters – Brawe, Luna and Danny as he meets up with numerous other personalities. These include characters in the form of space pirates, secret agents, interstellar government and so on. The storyline goes through space conspiracy, quests and general chaos.

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I could play in 2 game modes. Hard Mode – I had to choose between the hand and the magnifying glass to interact with objects on screen. Casual Mode – The hand and magnifying glass were chosen for me and there were lots of hints provided. The question mark icon proved very useful as it showed all intractable objects on the screen. Even the exits are visible as arrows on clicking the question mark. The journal at the bottom left of the screen showed a list of tasks I must finish.

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The look and feel of the game is similar to the point-and-click adventure games such as Telltale games. The initial download is free but once I finished the tutorial part, a payment of $4.99 has to be made to continue the play.

To sum it up, Kaptain Brawe – A Brawe New World is a challenging yet humorous gameplay about finding items, questioning characters and combining everything perfectly to solve puzzles. It has a brilliant soundtrack and I felt as if I was watching an old adventure flick. The amazing graphics combine hand-drawn backgrounds with 3D character models. The game scores in the retro look and feel but for new age kids who are used to playing modern adventures with full voice casts will get disappointed. The company needs to bring in more innovation for a longer app life.
Specifications:
Seller G5 Entertainment
Platform iOS3.0 or later
Genre Adventure, Puzzle
Number of Players Multiplayer
Updated 12 January 2012
Version 1.0
Size 285MB
Languages English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Requirements Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Price $4.99

Freaky Jump App Review ricochets off the doodle jump bounce game

jmcclain0129 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:53:31 +0000

Freaky Jump

Yet another app riding on the success of Doodle Jump’s bouncing game system, Freaky Jump injects some new concepts that hardly come across as creative but breathes fresh life into the genre.

Screen SHot | Game Action | Freaky Jump

To start off, Freaky Jump follows the same concept of bouncing off platforms and advancing to the top. However, the difference lies in the fact that Freaky Jump does not consist of one infinitely long level where your objective is to get a high score. Instead, you are required to reach a certain height before moving on to the next level. In short, stages and levels replace a free jump mode.

Screen Shot | Freaky Jump | Game Action

Add-ons such as propeller caps and rockets are also present in Freaky Jump. However, a magnet is also available to further boost high scores. Springs found in Doodle Jump and other similar games can also be found in Freaky Jump, giving a slight boost to gamers. However, unlike in Doodle Jump, players are unable to shoot projectiles in Freaky Jump.

Screen Shot | Game Play

Freaky Jump requires players to complete all the stages in one “world” before moving on to the next. While the concept of levels and stages in a traditionally open-mode genre is rather fresh, it soon becomes stale for levels are virtually identical to each other with the obvious reshuffling of tile placements being what sets them apart. With the completion of each level, stars are given based on the points accumulated, but they hardly do anything to bolster game progress.

Achievements are also available for fanatics, but that is hardly anything to fuss or rave about. It is insignificant as it does not contribute much to actual game play.

Pros:

Level system instead of infinite mode.
Slightly different from run of the mill jumping games.

Cons:

Levels are not very varied. Only background and slight platform changes.
Not much incentive to continue playing the game (e.g. unlockable content)

Proboards App Review Reveals Exactly What Makes A Great Utility App

jmcclain0129 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:21:13 +0000

ProBoards

Screen SHot | Categories

Are you what they term colloquially a “post count warrior”? Do you like interacting with thousands of others in a certain niche community? Or do you just want something else to while your time away online? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then ProBoards is the app for you.

Screen Shot | Post Previews

A seemingly endless amount of message boards are available for participating in through ProBoards. Essentially a mobile site for these forums, it allows you to partake in forum discussions anywhere and anytime as long as you have a working network connection. ProBoards presents you with a selection numbering in the thousands, from which you can choose from many categories to suit your personal interests. Following which, you can choose to save the boards of your choice for easy access in the future.

Screen Shot | About Page

The simplicity of the app is lovable. There are no frills, and no fanciful features to distract you. Everything is presented in one neat page for your scrolling and reading pleasure. Forum signatures are not displayed, making load times much faster. How many times have you had a page take forever to load because one user chose to use a massive image for his signature? Forum posts just include the avatar and content, nothing more. There is even a toggle for users to choose if they want the avatars to be shown or not!

Organization wise, ProBoards groups everything neatly in categories and folders. Each section of a forum board is neatly categorized through folders, which in turn have tabs to separate the sticky threads from the normal ones, and a separate tab containing the announcement. All this adds to the wonderful user experience, making it easy to access sites that do not have mobile skin support.

Screen SHot | Settings

At $2.99, this is one app that is really handy to have. While the steep price might not be justifiable for some, users who frequently access online message boards will love the convenience it brings as well as not having to deal with ridiculous skin templates that sometimes prove to be an eyesore.

Pros:

Neat and well organized.
One touch access to all your forums.
No huge images to slow down your surfing experience.

Cons:

Price is a little too high.

Flingy

Ryan Johnson — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:40:22 +0000

Aptly named Flingy, the new climber game by Cogniflame Pty Ltd is a love story that uses physics and momentum to propel the plot. In this game Mrs. Flingy has been abducted and placed high atop a seemingly insurmountable climb. To rescue Mrs. Flingy you’ve got to ascend vertically using only your rockets, grapple, and momentum.

Unlike other endless climbers where you automatically ascend upward or have the ability to bounce and leap, Flingy requires you to use a grapple to cling and fling yourself from sphere to sphere in order to make progress. This is no easy task. To invoke your grapple all you have to do is touch the screen. Touch on a specific sphere to connect to it and touch anywhere on the screen to let go. When you clamp on to a sphere you twirl around. The sooner you release yourself from a sphere the more momentum you’ll carry to the next one. In order to climb high you need to perfectly time your release over and over and over again. The slightest mishap can cost you valuable momentum, rendering you to a complete stop.

There are a variety of spheres that can both help and hurt you. Some fill your jet packs with fuel, igniting your rockets, sending your spinning with tons of momentum, some expload to give you a nice boost upward, helping you skip ahead a couple of spheres, and others do nothing to assist your momentum, they just provide a temporary place to connect.

Flingy is a cute game that has potential. One thing that stands out to me is that it definitely takes some getting used to before you’ll be good at it. I find myself getting stuck quite a bit mainly because it’s really easy to have your momentum stopped if you connect to a sphere wrong, and if you connect to a sphere that doesn’t provide momentum then you’re pretty much toast. If I could change anything about the game it’d be to energize it a bit with additional momentum boosters, and perhaps a faster pace of play. I like the overall idea of the game, and the challenge it presents, but at times it seems a little bit frustrating because of how easy it is to get stuck and how there really isn’t much you can do to get unstuck aside from falling to your doom.

Pros:

Challenging, pretty fun once you get the hang of it
Can be pretty addicting at times

Cons:

Is pretty easy to get yourself stuck
Could use some additional bonuses and a faster more engaging pace of play

Version Reviewed: 1.1

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iOS 3.0 or later

Cut It Up!

Ryan Johnson — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:00:44 +0000

Be prepared to have lots of fun and be 100% frustrated at the same time! Cut It Up! is a strategic slicer where balls bounce erratically inside a variety of oddly designed shapes. Using your finger like a razor you must surgically whittle shapes down to size in as few a slices as possible without cutting any of the bouncing balls. It starts out as innocent as child’s play, but quickly ramps up into an enjoyable stress inducing head scratcher.

Cut It Up! is one of Apalon apps newest editions. First off I must warn you, this game is extremely addictive. Think of it like a puzzle that keeps on changing. Every time you take a slice out of a shape the objects within react differently. As the shape gets smaller and smaller the balls bounce faster and faster and the window of time you have to safely trim the shape shrinks dramatically. Your goal in the game is to slice the shape until the slice meter passes the target rope. The fewer slices it takes you to do this the better the medal you’re awarded with (gold, silver, bronze).

Cut It Up! consists of two episodes, each consisting of 20 levels. Each level presents you with a totally different shape and challenge. You can trim every aspect of the shape excluding white walls. As you can figure, the further you advance the more odd shapes and white walls you’re presented with. I can say for sure that you’ll come across many shapes that’ll have your number, and will take you several (many) attempts before you figure out how to defeat them.

Overall Cut It Up! is a really fun game. I wasn’t sure how I’d like it at first but it’s curiously challenging and fun. It has great replayability because it’s hard to let levels get the better of you. I’ve gotten caught up on several levels that frustrated me, but seem to keep going back for more punishment. Cut It Up! is fast paced so you can squeeze in a game here and there even if you only have a minute or two to spare. If you like puzzles and strategy games you should check this one out.

Pros:

Fun, fast paced, and both addictive and frustrating
Great time killer
Levels are challenging, has plenty of replayability

Cons:

Nothing major, a global leaderboard would be nice

Version Reviewed: 1.1

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later

Flight Ultimate

Ryan Johnson — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:21:45 +0000

One look at the screen shots for Flight Ultimate and I knew I just had to have it. When I learned that it was a flight sim with a funny twist I was even more intrigued. Unfortunately Flight Ultimate performed more like “Flight Not So Ultimate”, as it has rather limited directional control, is littered with broken English, lackluster visual effects, wacky mismatched sounds, and a humorous twist that results in surprisingly odd/ridiculous missions.

Created by iTechGen, Flight Ultimate is a bit of a tease with it’s attractive and realistic looking exterior. It’s graphics are pretty good, that’s definitely one of it’s pluses, but aside from basic flight movements it’s far from being a realistic flying experience. Directionally you can move up and down, and can bank relatively sharp turns, but unfortunately you can’t make steep vertical maneuvers, loops, or barrel rolls. The engine sounds are non-existent, there’s no way to adjust your speed, and even though you have weapons there’s no sight for aiming.

Essentially the game is made up of a series of missions that take place in a varrying array of landscapes. The first mission is called XXL COW as there is a “vicious” cow on the loose that’s terrorizing village residents with it’s abnormally stinky poop. Yeah, POOP! The object of the mission is to fly over the cow and take a picture of it. A picture of it? Yes. That’s the mission. Really. Subsequent missions are similarly strange. Mission 2 requires you to kill the XXL Cow using a fighter jet and missiles. The missiles look more like tracer bullets when fired and conveniently there’s no site or aiming mechanism so you more or less just point the nose of the plane in the general direction of the cow and tap the screen like a banshee until you hit it.

I wanted badly to love this game, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. As I played it I found myself begging for more. Give me more control, give me more freedom, give me more realistic weaponry and sounds, give me more interesting missions. Please!!! Unfortunately, aside from each level increasing in difficulty each of them was just more of the same. Odd/wacky missions, lots of misspellings and broken English, cheesy sound effects, and not so realistic flying.

Pros:

Graphics are pretty good
If you have a wacky sense of humor you may get a kick out of the missions

Cons:

Flight controls are very limited (no tricks or speed control)
Limited sound effects; cheesy sounding
Lot’s of misspellings and broken English

Version Reviewed: 1.0

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Park’n Find App Contest and Giveaway

Rich DeBell — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:53:06 +0000

Affinicore, Inc. and SlapApp.com have teamed up to run a contest awarding free promo codes and a $100 iTunes Gift Card to participants. Starting Thursday, September 30th we will post a daily Park’n Find iPhone app related question on our contest page. Answers to each question will be located on the Park’n Find iTunes App Store page. For your chance to win a Park’n Find promo code all you’ve got to do is find the answer, and enter it into our contest form below. Each day multiple winners will be randomly selected. At the end of our contest a $100 iTunes gift card will be awarded to the winning finalist!

How does the contest work?

Each day we’ll post a new question on the contest form and send out a tweet.

What do you have to do to win?

Free Promo Codes – just follow @SlapApp on Twitter, wait for the daily tweet, read the question, get the answer from iTunes and post it in the contest form!

The promo code giveaway portion of the contest is now over

$100 iTunes Gift Card – just follow @SlapApp on Twitter and re-tweet the daily contest tweets like there’s no tomorrow (In fairness to our other followers no more then 5 retweets per contest tweet will be counted)! In fact we encourage you to tweet your own posts of the contest. Just be sure to mention @SlapApp to be eligible and have a working link back to this contest page. At the end of each day the top tweeter will be picked as a finalist. At the end of the contest each finalist will compete in “the finalists challenge”. The winner of the finalists challenge gets the goods!

Affinicore, Inc. is pleased to announce a major update to its popular Park’n Find iPhone software that takes the frustration out of finding your car in a large parking lot.

Park’n Find allows iPhone users to tag their parking location by using the iPhone GPS and optionally attach photos, voice memos, and notes. Users are guided back to their parking locations with an arrow showing which direction to walk in accompanied by a satellite image of the parking lot showing where their car is parked relative to their current position.

In addition to an improved user interface, Park’n Find 3.0 adds several features requested by the user community. Parking meter reminders can be set using a time duration or a specific date and time, with optional early reminders. Park’n Find 3.0 also adds support for iOS 4, the iPhone 4 Retina display, and runs natively on both iPhone and iPad 3G platforms.

SlapApp.com gave Park’n Find a perfect five star rating saying, “This amazingly handy app is jam packed with every feature imaginable to make finding your car in any parking lot and garage a breeze…hands down the easiest and smartest way to find your car.” Be sure to check out the Park’n Find Demo video to see all the amazing features in action!

Device Requirements:

iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, or iPad 3G running iOS 3.2 or later and a cellular or wifi connection is required for full application functionality.

Finalists Contest

First, let’s congratulate our finalists who will be competing for the $100 iTunes gift card (golf clap):

Day 1 Finalists: @KoOne23 @Jgabesz @bbbaddict @JoshFJoseph

Day 2 Finalists: @jwcasser @kujen92 @Phoenixx138 @followglobal

Day 3 Finalists: @dittotweeto @sunrise_moon @Portionforfox @Donovan1209

The finalists contest will kick off at 6 PM EST today 10/03/2010 via Twitter! Each finalist will be required to click the link and answer the posted list of questions about Park’n Find. The answers to the questions can be found on either the Park’n Find App Store page or on the Affinicore website (app’s developer). The first finalist to answer all of the questions correctly will win the $100 iTunes Gift Card! Good luck everybody!

Finalists Contest Questions:

1) What is the level, section, row, and spot shown in the Long Term Parking screen shot?

3 South H 12

2) In addition to a map view that automatically zooms and pans as you move, what type of arrow are iPhone 3GS users provided with?

“go this way”

3) Can Park’n Find provide driving directions to my parking location?

Yes

4) What button do you need to push in order to enter a specific time for when a meter will expire?

Date/Time

VIDEO QUESTION: Watch the Park’n Find promo video below to find the answer to this question (full screen view is recommended)

5) What is the name of the Dr and City shown in the Park’n Find app during the video?

Falls Church Dr, Falls Church

***Contest Winner***

The winner of the $100 iTunes gift card is: @Portionforfox

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Rafter HD App Contest and Giveaway

Rich DeBell — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:11:56 +0000

Emantras Inc and SlapApp.com have teamed up to run a contest awarding free promo codes and a $20 iTunes Gift Card to participants. Starting Thursday, September 16th we will post a daily Rafter HD related question on our contest page. Answers to each question will be located on the Rafter HD iTunes App Store page. For your chance to win a free Rafter HD promo code all you’ve got to do is find the answer, and enter it into our contest form below. Each day multiple winners will be randomly selected. At the end of our contest a $20 iTunes gift card will be awarded to the winning finalist!

How does the contest work?

Each day we’ll post a new question on the contest form and send out a tweet

What do you have to do to win?

Free Promo Codes – just follow @SlapApp and @Punflay on Twitter, wait for the daily tweet, read the question, get the answer from iTunes and post it in the contest form!

$20 iTunes Gift Card – just follow @SlapApp and @Punflay on Twitter and re-tweet the daily contest tweets like there’s no tomorrow (In fairness to our other followers no more then 5 retweets per contest tweet will be counted)! At the end of each day the top tweeter will be picked as a finalist. At the end of the contest each finalist will compete in “the finalists challenge”. The winner of the finalists challenge gets the goods!

Rafter HD brings new excitement and fun to what is already a classic App! With new levels, themes and a larger gaming surface (iPad) you will keep coming back to it as your go to game when there’s time to burn.

Finalists Contest

First we’d like to congratulate the four finalists:

@bbbaddict

@JoshFJoseph

@sunrise_moon

Starting at 6:00 PM EST today (09/19/2010) the finalists contest will begin. The first finalist that correctly answers the below questions and submits them via the form below will win the $20 iTunes GC courtesy of Rafter HD. All answers can be found on the Rafter HD App Store page.

Please take note, answers submitted before the polls open (6 PM EST) will not be counted. Good luck to all of the finalists!

How many levels does Rafter HD have?
What is one of the 3 “More to come” features in Rafter HD?
Is Rafter HD Open Feint enabled?
What is a “Key Level” in Rafter HD?
What is the “equation” for level scoring in Rafter HD?

And the winner of the $20 iTunes Gift Card is: @JoshFJoseph

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