Five for Friday: Week of June 3, 2011
Monster Hunter Dynamic Hunting:
Got a bit of Monster Hunter on your brain? The immensely popular open world RPG/action game has finally made its way to the iTunes App Store, focusing on two things gamers love most: combat, and loot from combat. Take on gigantic beasts from the Monster Hunter universe in one-on-one battles, swiping and touching your way to victory. Grab the goods when the fight is over and use it to craft new items and armor, strengthening yourself for the battles to come. It’s definitely one of those “just one more battle” sort of games, even if you haven’t been bitten by the Monster Hunter bug yet!
MONSTER HUNTER Dynamic Hunting
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $4.99
Released: 2011-06-01 :: Category: Games
Free-Time:
Why focus on meetings, appointments, and other time-eating activities when you can focus on what matters most: your free time? This slick-looking app is sort of the inverse of a calendar program, where instead of tracking actual events, it tracks and displays the time between them, pulling data from your local scheduling app to bring it all together. Enter your usual work day, factoring in meals, sleep, and average waking and going to bed times, then share your free times with friends. Surprisingly great for productivity, especially for those who consider free time more important than non-free time!
Free-Time
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-05-28 :: Category: Productivity
This V That:
Visually explore two seemingly unrelated things in a smart, stylish app that’s all about comparing data for different parts of the world. For example: is there a relationship between coffee consumption and homicide rates? How about Olympic medalists versus number of Facebook users in different countries? There’s an app for that, and it’s This V That. Great for trivia enthusiasts and anyone who enjoys apps that raise as many questions as they ask.
This V That
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-05-24 :: Category: Entertainment
How2Play:
Ever wanted to learn to play the guitar? Piano? How2Play is a universal app that contains a number of lessons, courses, background tracks and sheet music available to help you accomplish your musical goals. The download features a number of starter lessons, complete with instructional videos, and allows you to easily grab lessons from How2Play’s website (around $6 per lesson) so you can hone your skills and learn to play specific songs.
How2Play
Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-05-13 :: Category: Music
OmmWriter:
The enemy of writing is the distraction, and with devices like portable gaming consoles and iPads floating around, an awesome game is never more than a few taps away. OmmWriter aims to help free your mind of the clutter by streamlining your writing experience with a simple layout and a keyboard designed for improved usability. Soothing sounds are available, or you can opt for silence, but the user-centric keyboard design is where the real strength lays.
OmmWriter for iPad
iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Buy Now: $4.99
Released: 2011-05-30 :: Category: Productivity
Apps mentioned in this post: Free-Time, How2Play, MONSTER HUNTER Dynamic Hunting, OmmWriter for iPad, This V That
About: Five for Friday: Week of June 3, 2011 is a post from 148Apps
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Piclings is a novel technological concept – instead of levels being explicitly designed with specific artwork, levels in this game can be created through user-imported photographs that serve as the background and form platforms that can be navigated on. The player character, a creature named Picazzo can fly through the levels via a joystick placed anywhere on the screen with a finger. Picazzo navigates the levels collecting coins and avoiding enemies who can kill each other if the player can entice them into killing each other, or by way of a powerup that lets Picazzo kill enemies by touching them. Levels are completed when all the coins are collected, with bonuses given for killing extra enemies and completing the level in under the given time.
Unfortunately, by basing levels on real photos, errors do occasionally happen, as platforms can be in weird places. The editor can edit platform locations, but item and enemy locations are still randomly generated. There isn’t much in the way of actual gameplay progression – there’s only high scoring, and level creation.
The AppNation conference will be held April 27 & 28 at the Moscone Convention center in San Francisco and 148Apps is a proud media sponsor. The agenda is shaping up to be a great one and this year, I’ll be moderating a panel called the App Rock Stars. For this panel, we’ll be talking with some of the people with the most app downloads out there. In total, the participants have over 100 million app downloads, and we’re going to find out how they did it. The panel line-up is scheduled to include:
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