I recently sat down with another adventure game, this time Aidem Media’s City of Secrets, fully expecting to find a similar experience to other point-and-click titles from earlier reviews. There are many similar designs and ideas between all adventure games but the unique setting and charming characters in City of Secrets help to set it apart from the pack. We are all familiar with clicking and moving our characters, reading or listening to sometimes massive piles of text, fumbling our way through sometimes great and often horrible puzzles and scratching our heads when an obvious (in hindsight) solution isn’t so obvious. The adventure genre is as filled with repeats and bland designs as any other, but City of Secrets puts out enough original content to make it noteworthy.
Day: 10 September 2012
Pong has been around for a very long time and has seen revamps and recreations of it over and over again. Well now there is a new one that has been developed by Bursting Brains Studio called Paddletronic Duel. This takes pong, adds glow-y retro graphics, specialized paddles and much more to what once was just a simple game.
Farsight Studios announced over their Facebook page that they have pushed out an update for their Pinball Arcade platform with a whole new pack of tables along with some bug fixes and optimizations. Along with the fixed and improvements also comes a new Hall of Fame leaderboard for all-time high scores for players to try and compete at getting into.
Last week, we did a poll on whether you prefer using virtual d-pads or tap-to-go in action games that require dynamic movement. We’re going to continue discussing on the many different control mechanisms for Android games via our weekly poll, and this week our focus is on racing titles.
2K Games have finally gotten around to releasing their second title onto Android called House Pest: Fiasco the Cat. While their first game was more of an adult title pertaining to politics, this new title is more of an all ages game, especially appealing to the younger Android audience out there although anyone of any age might enjoy this.
Every wonder what it would be like to be existing as bacteria and not a human? Me neither but now we get to have a glimpse into that world in a new platformer called Jellyflug. Developed by Troll Inc, this is their first game on Android and Jellyflug so far has done quite well for itself over on iOS.
There really isn’t a whole lot of games that could be classified as a rhythm action game on Android, or for mobile in general. However Pixel Punch has developed a title that fits nicely into that category of gaming called Music Samurai, where you get to play a rhythm action game as a samurai, slicing up people while you run.
A little over a year ago we reported on a game that would be heading our way called Demolition Dash. Developed by Dreamfab, this game was slated to be released onto Android very soon back when we originally reported on it but after our report, everything went silent about the game’s release onto Android.
The recently released hit indie iOS game by Terry Cavanagh called Super Hexagon could end up getting an Android version fairly soon according to an AMA the developer held yesterday on Reddit. Released about three days ago, it has already sold over 10,000 copies and is considered by many to be ridiculously addictive.