App of My Eye » Platformer http://appofmyeye.com The Best iPhone Apps You'd Never See Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:56:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Papercut Cuts Correct http://appofmyeye.com/2011/08/11/papercut-cuts-correct/ http://appofmyeye.com/2011/08/11/papercut-cuts-correct/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:56:29 +0000 Dennis http://appofmyeye.com/?p=1737 Platform: Iphone

Side scrollers on the IPhone come in all shapes and sizes – you can escape fromjail, patrol the ocean as a man-eating shark, sprint across the screen stylishly or even fight to protect 45th street. Heck you can fly around collecting rings as an erinaceidae – you just can’t seem to play as an Italian plumber. But whatever. This is about Papercut, a great little side scroller that has you hacking and slashing a sword as you jump across ever increasing chasms. You know the drill. You constantly move forward in Papercut – you can’t slow down, so no breaks once the game has started. You’ve GOT TO STAY ON YOUR FINGERTIPS! The farther you go in Papercut the faster the game character runs (a young boy with a Lone Ranger mask and a cardboard sword). Backgrounds change as you play – going from day to night, sunrise to sunset. They are quite pretty. The gameplay also requires you to kill enemies that I can only assume are lint balls with teeth and morph to super-sized after collecting three lightning bolts. Developer Doomed Mobile also chronicled the development process on their blog (doomedmobile.tumblr.com). This title’s gameplay may be simplistic – but it enables it to be accessible to everyone aged seven to 70. It’s a great time waster for $0.99

mzl.fwyapbuy.320x480-75 mzl.ydbllwdf.320x480-75 mzl.hhylbzxv.320x480-75 ]]> http://appofmyeye.com/2011/08/11/papercut-cuts-correct/feed/ 0 iCircus Robot http://appofmyeye.com/2009/09/05/icircus-robot/ http://appofmyeye.com/2009/09/05/icircus-robot/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:38:59 +0000 Art http://appofmyeye.com/?p=1344 iCircus Robot iTunes PageDon’t be misled by the title: there are no clowns in this game.  Well, at least not the type of clowns that you remember as a kid.  You know what I’m talking about: those velvet paintings your mom and dad used to buy from the mall, which all had clowns that looked like demonic versions of Red Skelton‘s famous alter ego stolen from Rod Serling‘s Night Gallery.  Their effect on you was so severe that each time you did go to a real circus you had the same feeling come over you as you do now watching Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator.  No amount of cotton candy and snow cones could ever calm you down.  Not that it should since they contain more sugar than sugar.  Anyway, so what can you expect from iCircus Robot if not scary clowns?  How about a smooth highly-stylized 2D side-scrolling game the likes of which is rarely seen in the App Store?  Very much paying tribute to arcade games of old, you play as a robot that needs to jump through or over obstacles.  Using the accelerometer, tilt to one side or the other to move, while timing finger taps on the screen to perform the jumps.  Kinda reminiscent of Nintendo‘s Donkey Kong in some ways, my only criticism of this game is that it currently only has four missions.  But considering the quick increase in difficulty as you do progress, it lasts a lot longer than you think.  Plus, there is the promise of more to come.  Price: 99¢.

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]]> http://appofmyeye.com/2009/06/11/little-runner/feed/ 0 Trace http://appofmyeye.com/2009/05/28/trace/ http://appofmyeye.com/2009/05/28/trace/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 07:11:14 +0000 Art http://appofmyeye.com/?p=472 Trace iTunes PageAs I continued to rummage through the App Store, I realized there are a lot of apps that use very unspectacular graphics.  It’s like some devs decided to use clip art or Wingdings rather than deal with artists, which is understandable with those fragile egos.  Just kidding!  Of course, on occasion, you run into a game like Trace, which basically says to you “Look, this may look like a child’s fingerpainting, but at least, you will never forget me.”  It’s true: I never will, but it is also because of it’s creative gameplay of drawing paths using the touch screen to avoid obstacles in the fastest time possible.  The game is a puzzler and a platformer all in one.  With 6 unique worlds and 120 levels, you really can’t ask for anything more, including a break on the price… because it’s free.  Price: Free.  

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