Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 12/04/2017

December 04, 2017 by RSS Feed

Tiggly Submarine: Preschool ABC Game , Train Conductor 2: USA , Dierks Bentley Lyric Keyboard + Emojis and more

iPhone:

From A to B - Distance ( $0.99 → Free ) Christopher Sabroe Everyone will find a use for From A to B. It’s a basic utility app that is able to measure the distance between two points indirectly and in a straight line. Whenever you’re ready to start measuring, hit the play button. To end recording your distance, hit stop. That’s all there is to it. The app will display both measurements at the top of the screen, and you can reset them whenever you’re ready.

Universal:

Tiggly Submarine: Preschool ABC Game ( $2.99 → Free ) Tiggly Explore the sea by tapping and dragging Tiggly and his submarine around. When your child comes across a character, they can latch on to an anchor point and start creating short words. There’s no wrong way to play. Just explore and create.

Train Conductor 2: USA ( $2.99 → Free ) The Voxel Agents Train Conductor has some brilliantly simple gameplay, which is also what makes it so much fun. Trains enter the screen from both sides with numbers attached to them. You must safely guide them to their matching track with a swipe without causing a massive collision. You’re able to stop a train in its tracks with a tap, but don’t wait too long because more trains are on their way. The game includes a variety of locations to visit, and Game Center integration.

Dierks Bentley Lyric Keyboard + Emojis ( $1.99 → Free ) Echelon Creative Calling all Dierks Bentley fans! Dierks Bentley Lyrics Keyboard is filled with ways to bombard your friends and family with everything Dierks. It harnesses the power of LyricLink technology to turn more than 60,000 words and phrases into lyrics based on the context of your conversation. But that’s not all. You’re able to utilize hundreds of emojis and stickers of Dierks Bentley within your conversations, dress up Dierks Bentley in more than 20 outfits, and caption stickers.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 12/02/2017

December 02, 2017 by RSS Feed

Flowing ~ Meditation in Nature , Toca Life: Stable , Addition and Subtraction Math Flashcard Match Games for Kids in 1st and 2nd Grade and more

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Flowing ~ Meditation in Nature ( $0.99 → Free ) Franz Bruckhoff Flowing combines natural streaming water recordings with stunning artwork to help you sleep, relax, study, or meditate. It utilizes stereoscopic 3-D audio that’s optimized for headphones, so you can drift off into your own little world. The six natural streaming water recordings can be mixed with rain, rain on a tent, music, and bird sounds.

Toca Life: Stable ( $2.99 → Free ) Toca Boca AB Anything goes in Toca Life: Stable. The app includes four new locations to explore: stable, jousting arena, forest, and shop. Children are able to care for the horses, choose new outfits, campout, make music on lily pads, go on canoe rides, and so much more. Each activity is its own mini adventure with tons of interactions to discover.

Addition and Subtraction Math Flashcard Match Games for Kids in 1st and 2nd Grade ( $5.99 → Free ) Eggroll Games LLC Addition and Subtraction Flashcard Match Games creates a fun environment for your child to practice addition and subtraction in with its eye-popping visuals and positive encouragement. Your child can work on matching problems to their answers or matching problems to other problems. The difficulty can be adjusted by changing the number range and by showing the cards or keeping them face down. The game also includes a bubble popping reward after each round.

Louvre HD ( $1.99 → Free ) Evolution Games LLP The collection can be browsed through and broken down by genre or artist, or you can search for specific paintings. Louvre HD allows you to save paintings as favorites, view them in a slideshow, and save high quality versions to your photo library.

Flick Champions Winter Sports ( $0.99 → Free ) NAWIA GAMES Sp. z o.o. There’s a winter sport for everyone in Flick Champions Winter Sports. You’re able to participate in slalom, skating, ski jumping, ice hockey, curling, biathlon, sledges, and snowball fight events. Each event features a flick-based mechanic to control your character and other elements. You’ll earn experience points for winning events, which will help you unlock 40 different power-ups. The game also includes local multiplayer, daily challenges, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

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December 02, 2017 by macjeff

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Arrive, Feather, Grandma’s Gift, and other apps to check out this weekend

December 02, 2017 by RSS Feed

In this week’s edition of our Apps of the Week roundup, we have a new app for tracking your packages, a sharp-looking todo list and goal tracker, and a cool gift idea for family. And as always, we’ve selected two great new games for you to check out.

Arrive

Instantly track all of your online orders in one place with Arrive. In a single tap, the app automatically syncs with your online purchases to give you accurate up-to-the-minute updates on everything you order. Follow your package's journey with a live interactive map and notifications every step of the way. Features include support for over 400 carriers–including UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL and others–and a number of retailers. I know there are already a few staple apps in this category, but I still think this one’s feature set and interface make it worth checking out. Arrive is available for free.

Feather

Feather is an entirely new type of productivity app that combines to-do lists, schedules, goals, and statistics into one seamless experience to effectively boost your productivity. Just follow along Feather Butler's prompts and you'll find yourself getting more done day by day. Features include to-do lists, schedules, goal tracking and stat-tracking so you can measure your productivity. The design is lightweight and clean, and easy to use. Again, I know this is a crowded category, but if you’re in the market for a to-do list or goal tracker, this app is worth checking out. Feather is available for free (with a single IAP).

Grandma’s Gift

The holidays are coming up, and the folks at Polished Play want you to give the gift of reading with Grandma’s Gift. This app allows you and your grandchild to become the main characters in an arctic story adventure. Just add your own photos and customize the text—grandma, grandpa, mom, auntie, etc. are all covered. And once you’re done playing with the app itself, you can order a beautiful printed keepsake book. The whole concept is pretty cool here, and again very timely as we wade into the month of December. Grandma’s Gift is available for free.

Game Dev Tycoon

Game Dev Tycoon is a casual business simulation game where your success depends on your creativity and willingness to experiment. The game does *not* contain any in-app purchases or ads. Slip into the role of a game developer: start your own company, design your own games and make your way to the top to become a Game Dev Tycoon. Features include an updated story line, new topics to enable even more varied games, a challenging ‘pirate mode,’ built-in screen recording and streaming report, and more. Game Dev Tycoon is available for $4.99.

Hoppenhelm

In Hoppenhelm, you must jump over pitfalls, razor-sharp spikes and crumbling blocks. Deflect flying fireballs, enemy attacks and axe swings. Bust open doors to secret rooms full of lava and gather shiny coins. Sir Hoppenhelm is lost down in the dungeon of his castle Dunkelburg and must jump, block and slash his way back to safety before the rising lava gets him. Collect coins to unlock allies with unique abilities or expand your armory with new neat weapons. Features include one-handed controls, randomly generated levels, unlockable content, and more. Hoppenhelm is available for free (with a single IAP).

More apps to check out

• Lego's new ARKit powered app combines virtual and physical blocks
• Google app picks up multilingual voice search
• Google Photos introduces iMessage app for easy sharing, drag and drop on iPad
• Microsoft's Edge browser launches on iPhone and iPad
• Google Maps picks up iPhone X support
• Apple Heart Study app launches in partnership with Stanford Medicine
• Today Weather is a simple weather forecast app worthy of iPhone X's gorgeous OLED display [sponsor]
• The best camera apps for the iPhone X

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Hop and Slash Your Way to the Top in Hoppenhelm

December 01, 2017 by RSS Feed

Hoppenhelm (Free) by Tobias Ornberg is a twitchy platformer arcade game. If you're looking to get a quick gaming fix while you're out-and-about, then Hoppenhelm is a great contender for that. If you enjoyed games like Super Samurai Rampage and Dragon Hills 2, then chances are you'll like Hoppenhelm.

My life's been pretty busy lately, so I've taken refuge with a ton of different video games recently. My latest vice is, not surprisingly, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, but when I'm done fulfilling requests of cute animals, I need something else to do. This is when quick-fix mobile games come in, as I can just play these in short bursts throughout the day. As a big fan of platformer games, I'm liking what Hoppenhelm has to offer so far.

$1.99

Super Samurai Rampage

Brackish Games

$2.99

Dragon Hills 2

Cezary Rajkowski

Visually, Hoppenhelm carries a retro aesthetic that takes me back to my childhood days of 16-bit games. The game is completely in 2D with a pixel art style that serves as a fantastic homage to SNES games and the like. Despite the pixelated look, Hoppenhelm manages to pack in a lot of finer details, such as textures to indicate crumbling platforms that you need to watch out for. Character models are all unique and distinctive, and the enemies have their own behavioral patterns as well. Animations are smooth and fluid on my iPhone 8 Plus, with no issues of lag or choppiness. To top it all off, Hoppenhelm has a fantastically eerie chiptune soundtrack that fits in perfectly with the game's environment, and the sound effects are delightful.

Since Hoppenhelm is a twitchy reflex arcade game, there are no levels or anything of the sort. Instead, it's an endless game where you test how far you can go. In Hoppenhelm, you control a knight who must hop through a dungeon environment while also attacking and defending himself from various enemies. Each hop counts as a step, and your score is essentially the number of steps you took.

The game's one-touch control scheme makes this incredibly playable anywhere, anytime. There are three large buttons towards the bottom of the screen. The biggest one is in the center, and that's the button to hop forward one space. To the left is the button to perform an attack, and to the right is the button to defend with a shield. While the game sounds easy enough with such simple controls, things are actually challenging and can get pretty tricky.

With Hoppenhelm, you must time your hops carefully if you want to make it to the next platform before the crumbling one dissolves underneath your feet. Enemies also attack you, so you have to take them out before they get a hit in on you, or block with your trusty shield. There's also moving spikes, coins to collect, and other deadly hazards to watch out for.

There are multiple knights that you can unlock in Hoppenhelm. If you have collected enough coins, you can unlock the next character. The price goes up as you get towards the stronger ones, but they're worth the cost. Each knight has a special ability, such as being able to take more hits before dying or dishing out more damage to foes.

Additionally, there are also weapons to unlock. Again, the price is more for stronger ones, and these also include unique traits, such as the chance to land critical hits. With the combination of knight characters and weapons, you can end up with some interesting play styles.

An arcade platformer with one touch controls that presents you will all kinds of dungeon obstacles.

The Good

Hoppenhelm is a fresh take on arcade platformer games. While there are many twitchy arcade reflex games, there aren't too many that have the platforming aspect, so it's nice to see. The graphics of the game are top notch, as it's a great homage to the classics. The chiptune music is done well too.

The controls are intuitive and easy for anyone to pick-up-and-play. But don't be fooled — the game proves to be rather challenging when you factor in all of the dangers that await you. Plus, there's many possibilities of character and weapon combinations, so you can find a play style that fits you.

The Bad

Mostly everything about Hoppenhelm is good. However, just keep in mind that this is a freemium game, so there are occasional ads that pop up every so often. However, it doesn't happen too frequently and is not super intrusive. Like other games, there's always the opportunity to watch an ad to double your coins though. If the ads bother you too much, then there is an in-app purchase that removes ads, but it's completely optional.

The verdict

As a fan of twitch reflex arcade games and platformers, Hoppenhelm is a nice mix of both. I'm in love with the graphics and chiptunes, as they make me feel like a kid again. The one-touch controls make the game easily accessible for anyone with a touch screen, but the challenging gameplay and unlockable content keeps you coming back for more.

9.4

OVERALL

Sound/Music 10

Replayability 9

Game Controls 9.5

Graphics 9.5

Gameplay 9

FREE

Hoppenhelm

Tobias Ornberg

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