Entries Categorized as 'Games: Platform'
June 23, 2009
Skyworks seems determined to branch out from their sports milieu and visit other areas of the arcade, and Mad Miner continues with that trend bringing you some classic platformer love.
As a more traditional flick-scrolling platform game, Mad Miner could probably best be compared to the likes of classic console and home computer games like Pitfall II and Montezuma’s Revenge — which happen to be two of my all-time favourite platformers from back in the day, though I’m not sure Mad Miner quite measures up. (Hey, those are legends, man. Big shoes to fill.) Just the same though, there’s gold in this here game.
Mad Miner puts you in the shoes of…
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June 15, 2009
I said before that the platform game market is a bit underserved on the App Store, but even more undeserved is the action platformer.
Robert Casperson seems to think so too, and he hit me up with a face full of it in the form of his debut game Bionic Surfer. The story, if you really feel that one is necessary, is that Earth and its neighbouring colonies have been invaded by aliens, and the only person who can stop them is a shirtless gun-toting dude in Bermuda shorts. That would be you. Radical. But that weak-sauced back story pretty much sets the tone for what ends…
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June 10, 2009
When Gamesmith took over publishing duties for Axolotl’s Indigo Ocho and released an updated verison, I wanted to know if there was anything substantial enough for an update review in the new version. As it turns out there wasn’t really much — visual enhancements and stuff — but Gamesmith invited me to have a look at the rest of their library to see if anything tickled my fancy. As it turned out, there were three hidden gems I’d never discovered before, so now I’m going to tell you about them.
First, we’ve got Joyland Bounce by Black Tomcat Studios. First-time book-by-cover skimmers could be forgiven for calling this a…
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May 18, 2009
We’ve seen so far several of the sort of things Artificial Life can do when they’re given the blueprints for a branded app, so the question is: What would they to if left to their own devices to design something completely from scratch? The answer to that is iDroids.
I mentioned earlier that platform games are an underserved genre in the App Store, but Artificial Life have gone a long way to giving that category a good shot in the arm, as iDroids covers all of the bases here, and then some. So the story goes: You are HAXX, an iDroid and farmer from the rural outskirts of iDroidAbama, just minding…
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May 12, 2009
Platformers are a sadly under-served genre on the App Store, and I like platformers. This here isn’t quite a platformer in the Mario tradition, but it features running and jumping, so it qualifies.
Slippy Feet is a cute name for a cute little platformer in which you, an apparently OCD penguin named Slippy, must collect snowflakes. Yellow snowflakes. Apparently his mama didn’t teach him so good, or maybe liked yellow snowflakes herself, which may or may not account for his OCD. Just the same, Slippy likes snowflakes and wants to collect them all, so you must guide him across the ice floes of the frozen Antarctic to do just that, and…
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April 30, 2009
The dev crew at Artificial Life are a little preoccupied right now crunching to complete and release the full versions of Red Bull Air Race Championship and (finally) BMW Z4: An Expression of Joy, so they didn’t have time to cobble together an ad-hoc build of iDroids for me to play with. However, Keith Chan sent me some information and a trailer on the game, and I sort of wanted to post about it because the platform game category is one I feel is underserved in the App Store. There are some good ones out there, but not all of them are quite the “traditional” platformers or platform shooters…
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February 13, 2009
Here’s a nice surprise: A full-featured platform/puzzle kind of game that’s good and free. Not temporarily free, but scot free.
Magnetic Joe is a ball with a positively (and negatively) attractive personality. (I can’t believe I just deliberately made that pun.) The object of the game is to guide Joe around each maze and get him to the finish line. To do that you have only his magnetism and some magnetic guides at your disposal. Control is mainly achieved by tapping the screen. When you do so, Joe will send out an elecromagnetic tether to the nearest mooring (indicated in blue with arrow markings.) Joe will be pulled along both in…
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November 24, 2008
App Name: Armado Lite
Version: 1.0
Developer: Tricky Software Inc.
Category: Platform Games
When Armado the armadillo learns that his village could be in danger from a swarm of killer ants, he strikes out to the mountain to seek wisdom from their queen, a great, wise eagle, only to discover that she has been kidnapped. Now, Armado must become the unwilling hero on his quest to find the queen and save the world from the evil ant army.
Armado takes the form of a 3D third person platformer where you must guide young armadillo through the mountains, over obstacles, and hopping on ants and other enemies to kill them. The game is played on rails — which is to say that that Armado follows a set path,…
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October 25, 2008
App Name: Trace
Developer: Kevin Calderone
Category: Platform Games
Taking its cue from the likes of such Flash games as Line Rider, Coaster Rider, Draw Play, and loads of other variants, Trace is another drawing game where the object is to draw your own path from point A to point B while avoiding obstacles and navigating existing platforms.
Graphically it’s pretty simple — but such drawing games are generally intended to be, since they’re all meant to resemble chalk or crayon or pencil drawings. Trace is no different, looking like simple marker or pencil crayon drawings by a 4-year-old. The sound is simple but cool — the background music is retrotastic. The gameplay is similarly easy: Draw lines up and around obstacles wherever possible, then use the…
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