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Incubator Games announced recently that Feeding Time is coming to the App Store. This is a quirky, whimsical puzzle game, that can be played on your iPhone, iPad for iPod Touch.

The purpose of this application is to feed animals and don't let them go hungry. As you can see in this video too, you need to provide the animals with the right food in order to move forward in the game. In other words, you cannot feed a dog with fish or carrots. These are good for cats, respectively rabbits, other animals that you will have to feed. Dogs love bones and this is what you will offer them.

The interface of this application is great, the game being designed especially for children or for those that want to have a good time on their lunch break. A major part of the screen will be occupied by a grid with many squares. The margins of the grid are the place of those animals you have to feed: dogs, cats, rabbits and mice. Dogs eat bones, cats eat fish, rabbit eat carrots and mice eat cheese. You need to find the correct path for an animal in order to feed it with the right food and also in order to earn points. When an animal eats those foods, they disappear from the squares where they were placed, and other foods appear in their place. For example, if a cat eats the fish around it, instead of that fish, there can appear bones or cheese, great for dogs or mice. What you need to do is to make a connection between those bones, for instance, and other bones, placed next to a dog, in order to feed that dog.

The game is rather simple when you get the hang of it and it can really become addictive. The music of this application is also an important aspect that makes you play the game again and again. From time to time, when you feed the animals, you can hear their specific sounds, that replicate very well the sounds of real animals.

You will be capable of competing against friends and showing your scores on global leaderboards. Or you can enjoy a relaxing experience unlocking new areas and power ups. And with the proper attention, no animal will ever go hungry again. All these from March 2012.

Jan 27

On January 26, 2012, Nevosoft has released a new application on the App Store, named “Vampireville: Haunted Castle Adventure”, that works on iPhone and also the iPad. It is included in the Games category on the App Store and represents a unique way of finding objects, solving puzzles and enjoying incredible adventures.

In this application, you will be Michael, a young real estate agent, that was sent to a creepy place to appraise it and put it up for sale. The name of this place is the Malgrey Castle, a place that will require you strong nerves and a great amount of luck. In order to succeed the task provided by Rockwell and Rockwell, the company where you work, you will have to not be afraid of the castle’s weird and sinister secrets, that will reveal themselves little by little. One of the managers of the real estate company suffers from a rare disease and hopes that this Castle holds the secret cure for his illness. So, besides trying to sell the house, you also need to find if the house indeed possesses a secret cure for Mr. Rockwell.

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The first time when you will enter the house you will be shocked by what you will see: the heating is turned on for about 50 years now, the paintings are hidden behind curtains and the cabinets are boarded up. You need to solve the mysteries around this Castle by communicating with the staff, analyzing blood samples, opening secret doors and digging through the archives, that tell you more about ghosts and vampires. You will even meet a young which that will predict your future. Among the characters you will encounter in this Castle, there is a butler, obsessed with the Internet, a maid that listens to music all day long and a groundskeeper, which used to be president of the local blood donors' union. All these characters are represented in 3D and increase the spooky atmosphere of the Castle. Keep your eyes wide open, because this is full of surprises and in most of the cases, they are unpleasant.

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While the application created for the iPhone users is $2.99, the app designed for the iPad users is $4.99, but it is created in high-definition.

These apps are available in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German and have these technical requirements: if you want to download this application on your iPhone, you must have the iOS 4.3 or later installed, and if you download the HD application onto your iPad, you must run the iOS 3.2 or later. Even though these are paid applications, they also contain an in-app purchase, represented by a pack of 25 hints, that will cost you $0.99.

We invite you to enter Nevosoft Website to find more about this app and also other applications designed by this company: “Magic Academy”, “Dreamland”, “Mysteryville”, “LandGrabbers”, “Million Dollar Quest” “Pioneer Lands”and others.

Jan 27

GraviMaze is an iPhone puzzle game that will be released on February 1st, 2012, by Hart-Dev. This game is based on gravity, and the user has to rotate a level to find his way through tortuous mazes and complete the game with as many coins as possible.

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The application presents an original game-play, it's easy to learn, but hard to master, contains dozens of levels that transport you to a new world full of samples and forgotten lands and allows you to dive into places brought to life by Mayan legends. With this application, you can actually bend gravity to your will in order to collect the treasures of Mayan temples, but you have to be careful because cunning traps guard them and might stop you from completing the application successfully.

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This GraviMaze game will certainly turn your mind upside down, being definitely a great brain teaser. It can be played by adults and children and is destined to all those that want to improve their attention skills and to have faster reactions. You can find more details about this application on the site of its developer and also watch a short video of 57 seconds on YouTube, where this app is presented. On gravimaze.com, you have the possibility of writing your e-mail address, in order to be notified when this application will be out.

Jan 27

Do you love to use your camera on any occasion and shoot your friends and family every time an opportunity occurs? Then, this application is, most likely, suitable for you. We are talking about ComicBooth 1 – Rotoscope, developed by CobbySoft Media Inc, application that not only gives you the possibility of taking snaps, but also of converting them in real time into comics photos, without using a complicated or expensive software. You will get hours of fun with kids, friends and family simply by using this application, that is sold on the App Store for the price of only $1.99.

So far, this app was ranked #12 in the United Kingdom, was included in Top 10 most popular applications in 5 countries and in Top 100 in 45 countries. It works with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and requires iOS 4.0 or later.

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Alright, we have understood that the purpose of this application is to transform the photos you have taken with your iPhone, for example, into comics photos, but how does this happen? This little piece of software that you will download onto your iPhone is capable of creating grains, lines and sketches in real time, thus the photo you will see immediately after taking the picture will be a comicbook style photo. You have examples of how your photos will look like right here, in this article. The process of adding grains and lines is automatic, but it can be manual as well, if you want total control over your photos. So you can add as many lines as you want and also change and edit colors little by little to obtain the result that you want.

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Another great characteristic of this app is that it can load images from your library and convert them into comic photos. And if you add a realistic comic frame to the final image, you can have the fun guaranteed. Photos can be in portrait or landscape, this is not important when editing an image with this program.

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Do you want to see how the last photo you have taken looks like? No problem, with ComicBooth 1, you benefit of the instant playback feature, which shows you the image you have shot and converted.

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For those that spend a lot of time on Facebook or Twitter, sharing this type of photos with their friends and family is very important. You can do this thanks to this app, by using only one button that allows you to share your comics photos via these social networking sites. And if your loved ones don't use social networks, you can send them by e-mail.

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This application will certainly put a smile on your face and not only on yours; entrust the iPhone to your kids and even the family pet will be transformed into a comicbook character.

More information about this application can be accessed on the site of the developer, the place where you can find out also more about other applications designed by this team: Thermal Vision, ComicBooth 3 – Halftone, Black Light Vision, Night Vision (Black Ops) and ComicBooth 5 – Crosshatch.

Jan 27

Paladin Entertainment Ltd has designed a new game for iPhone, namely Gun Strike. This is a free application which can be downloaded from the App Store.

The purpose of this game is to fight enemies using a large variety of weapons. Obviously, you are the hero, a battle hardened mercenary, that will deal with 17 weapons, grenades and 3 types of armors. These are not offered as a standard, they will have to be bought by you, depending on the money you have. To make money, you need to complete as many tasks as you can and upgrade your equipment.

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70 levels will transport you into a world filled with guns, old buildings and criminals. The application has these levels divided into 7 maps. During the gameplay, you will receive tips about how to behave in order to not be killed. For an easier play, you can transform the normal speed of the game into a slow motion mode, where you can see better your opponents and kill them with a higher precision. You need to look at your life and armor levels from time to time, to not get surprised that you don't have enough life anymore. These are showed at the top of the screen, on the right. On the left part, you can see how many enemies have you killed from the beginning of the level.

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As main features, this game presents interesting role animations, being one of the most exciting FPS game for a mobile platform, offers distinctive scenes and challenging levels, immersive game effects and allows you to show off with your scores on Game Center and Open Feint. This application provides a large variety of weapons, you can play the big head mode, in order to kill easier your enemies, which are more than 20 kinds, the survival mode and other 2 mini games, that are created to train player’s reaction.

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Speaking of weapons, the user can select from HK G3SG, Benelli M4, M249 SAW, AWP, Beretta M93R, Desert Eagle, MP5 and others. To master the reload time, instead of playing the game over and over again, like it happens in other applications of the same kind, you need to switch the main and sub weapons timely and from time to time, throw grenades to your enemies. This is also a good strategy of killing them more rapidly.

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If you are curious about a video presentation of this game, you can click this link to access YouTube.

Now regarding the technical requirements of this app, this can be ran on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, requires the iOS 3.1.3 or later and was rated 12+, because it presents scenes of frequent/intense realistic violence and also fantasy violence. The application is written in English and has a size of 38.3 MB. You can upgrade to the full version of this app, by buying the only in-app purchase available for this application, which is $0.99.

Jan 23