Posts Tagged ‘board’
Vorble Makes Opening Gambit with Digital Board Game
Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:40 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:40
The pantheon of traditional games being reinvented for the digital age has another contender – Vorble 1.2.1 for iOS, a 3D mashup of the classic strategy chessboard genre. It is a mind game played on a spherical board without edges and the latest app for social gamers with a competitive spirit. Gamers can pitch their wits against each other online or against a series of thirteen progressively challenging artificial intelligences. Continue reading
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Old School Felt Board Receives a Digital Makeover For the iPad
Last Updated on Thursday, 5 April 2012 01:30 Written by iUseMac Thursday, 5 April 2012 01:30
Software Smoothie announces Felt Board 1.0.35, an app for the iPad designed much like traditional felt boards, but with added digital enhancements. A simple drag and drop interface allows children to create characters and combine them with props and accessories to create scenes for imaginative play. Version 1.0.35 introduces support for the new iPad 3, and users can now turn the camera on and off, as well as extra glue drops can be thrown away in the recycle bin. Continue reading
Tags: board, coordination skills, digital enhancements, digital makeover, drop interface, educational technology specialist, expressive speech, Felt, hand eye coordination, iPad, Makeover, motor, Old, Smoothie, software, special education teacher, story comprehension, storytelling, technology | Posted under Mac News | Comments Off
First Mac App for AR.Drone Quadricopter hits the Mac App Store
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 04:45 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 21 December 2011 04:45
Drone Station, the first Mac App for controlling the AR.Drone is now on the Mac App Store. Flyers can now control the Drone with XBox controllers, PlayStation 3 Controllers, several joystick and gamepad brands, keyboard mouse combinations, Wii motion controllers, and even the Wii Balance Board. Video recording, image capture, object tracking, and object stalking are all standard features. In addition, external Wi-Fi dongles may be used for extended range, a popular request among AR.Drone users. Continue reading
Tags: area, balance, balance board, board, compatible application, configuration screen, Consulting, control, control settings, drone, Logitech, logitech dual action gamepad, mac os x, motion controllers, nunchuk, Parrot, quick reference guide, store, Xbox | Posted under Mac News | Comments Off
Scientists create cheat for popular word game that shows all the answers
Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:00 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:00
SKH Apps today introduces Board Solver for Words With Friends 1.0, their complex puzzle solving tool for iOS devices. Board Solver for Words With Friends combines optical character recognition with word generation technology to effectively create a championship level Words With Friends player in the hands of any user. Created by a small team of scientists, this app has the unique ability to read game screens and show users where to place their tiles to make the highest point words. Continue reading
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United Toys’ Pirate Fleet For Friends Game Reaches #1
Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 November 2011 06:35 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 9 November 2011 06:35
United Toy, a German upstart dedicated to pirate theme games is thrilled to announce achieving a number one ranking for PirateFleet for Friends on the iTunes App chart in two categories: Games/Trivia and Games/Board. This game, only launched in April, 2011 has also reached another impressive milestone with seventeen million plays to date. PirateFleet for Friends has already boasted engagement numbers that are twice the industry average at four plays per day. Continue reading
Tags: battleship game, bells and whistles, board, cannon shot, com, concept, date, game development company, games trivia, impressive milestone, industry, iPad, iphone, milestone, pirate fleet, pirate theme, stuttgart germany, theme games, Trivia, worldwide | Posted under Mac News | Comments Off
C4 Waterman Surf N Sup Challenge for iOS – The 1st stand up paddling sim
Last Updated on Thursday, 1 September 2011 04:00 Written by iUseMac Thursday, 1 September 2011 04:00
Pooka Pooka LLC, in association with App Partner Development and C4 Waterman, is pleased to announce the release of C4 Waterman Surf N Sup Challenge on the iPhone App Store. C4 Waterman Surf N Sup Challenge is a paddle surfing simulator. It’s also the only surfing game that allows you to put up a picture of your face onto the character and then surf on a realistic photo style wave! The game boasts 3 different games including River Racer, Short Board Ripper, and Down Wind Stand Up. Continue reading
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Harry Keramidas Takes Mewshop Students Back to the Future
Last Updated on Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:55 Written by iUseMac Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:55
Manhattan Edit Workshop is thrilled to announce this month’s Artist in Residence as seasoned editor, Harry Keramidas. Keramidas began his career in 1974 with the independent film Memory of Us, and has since edited more than 45 films. A key component of Mewshop’s Six-Week Intensive in the Art of Editing, the Artist in Residence Program provides students with the invaluable opportunity of working one-on-one with distinguished filmmakers and editors of all genres. Continue reading
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mobivention Publishes Retro Board Game for iOS, Reversi Reloaded
Last Updated on Friday, 10 June 2011 01:34 Written by iUseMac Friday, 10 June 2011 01:34
mobivention announces the release of their modern version of Reversi as a freemium edition for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Through a customizable play Reversi gives its players a new feel for the popular classic game. The basic version can be downloaded for free at the App Store and offers useful add-ons via in-app purchases. Reversi is played by 1-2 players on an 8×8 board. The pieces are two-faced, each in 2 shades and they are being placed alternately on the game board. Continue reading
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Japanese Speak Board 1.0 for iPad – On Sale for One Week Only
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 December 2010 12:00 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 1 December 2010 12:00
Holfeld Apps today released Japanese Speak Board 1.0 for iPad users. Japanese Speak Board offers users a fast, super-easy way to correctly learn eighty-eight of the most essential Japanese phrases. Users merely tap an English phrase to hear a crystal clear audio of a native Japan speaker saying the phrase in Japanese. To further enhance the simplicity and speed of the app, the phrases are organized into five categories: Basic, Emergency, Relationships, Travel and Business. Continue reading
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Snake Classic for iOS – Finally a Snake Game that Doesn’t Suck
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 01:00 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 23 November 2010 01:00
Chicago based Zing! Apps, LLC today announces Snake Classic 2.0, its first game title for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Snake Classic aims to be the snake game on every single iOS device. It captures true classic mobile gameplay along with a fresh look designed for next generation mobile devices. The gameplay stays true to the classic, with the experience adding a host of modern iOS features such as a Global Leader Board, Facebook and Twitter integration, and much more. Continue reading
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Read & Play App Leaps into the App Store
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 05:40 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 10 November 2010 05:40
California based iStoryTime announces The Penguins of Madagascar: Read & Play 1.0 for Apple’s revolutionary iPad. The lovable and hilarious penguins come to life in their first Read and Play app, packed with two Storybooks, a Joke book, and interactive activities such as Create a Scene, Kaleidoscope, Spot the Difference, Mazes, and Coloring Board with nine coloring pages and much more. It is perfectly created to entertain and educate children as well as keep them occupied while on-the-go. Continue reading
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Xiotex Introduces Koan 1.1 for iPhone OS – Game of Strategy and Survival
Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 03:00 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 5 May 2010 03:00
London based Xiotex introduces Koan 1.1 for the iPhone OS, a board game of strategy and survival. The Zen koan is a simple statement beyond the intellect, apprehended only through intuition. And Koan is a board game with simple rules, where the player soon discovers that moves based on logic may not result in as many points as those that “feel” right. The playing board is a 5×5 grid of Go-like stones which can assume any one of 5 different colors, affecting scoring and time allotted for moves. Continue reading
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Sudoku Duo 1.2 – Dual Player Sudoku for iPad
Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 10:30 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 5 May 2010 10:30
Houdah Software today announces Sudoku Duo – Dual Player Sudoku for iPad. Sudoku Duo is a dual player Sudoku game where players may collaborate or compete. A single player mode is also available. Sudoku Duo is based upon the same powerful Sudoku engine as ACTSudoku for iPhone. It is able to provide an almost infinite number of Sudoku games categorized in 3 levels of difficulty. Additionally it is able to provide intelligent hints. Continue reading
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Appigo Corkulous – New iPad app Now Available for Download
Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 07:30 Written by iUseMac Tuesday, 20 April 2010 07:30
Utah based Appigo, Inc. today introduces Corkulous 1.0 for iPad. Following the metaphor of a cork board, Corkulous idea board gives users a very large virtual space for collecting, organizing and sharing ideas visually. Related ideas can be easily placed together and aligned using automatic guides which help to snap items into place. Corkulous also supports multiple boards. As ideas grow, users can create new boards and group related ideas in separate virtual spaces. Continue reading
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Imesart Releases Disacol – Box Moving, Color Matching Game for iPhone OS
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 11:10 Written by iUseMac Wednesday, 24 March 2010 11:10
Imesart today introduced Disacol 1.0, the new logic game for iPhone OS devices. Disacol features an ingenious mix of box moving and color matching for a wonderful brain teasing experience. Move a box pusher around and bring boxes of the same color together to make them disappear. Find the right pushing sequence and make boxes of all colors disappear. Every level brings a new challenge. Progress and resolution times can be published on Twitter to challenge family and friends. Continue reading
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