Comet Cowboy is an awesome app to break out when you want to play a game that’s impossible to lose. It’s just plain fun to lasso those asteroids floating around in space and pull them in.
The free version offers 4 levels of play. Check it out, and if you enjoy it, shell out the $3.99 for 30+ levels.
For a “limited time” all Pangea games are discounted in the app store. I hadn’t picked up Cro-Mag Rally yet, so I took advantage of the $1.99 price. Billy Frontier is $3.99 (I’m not sure what it is normally). But it looked cool so I picked that up as well.
They don’t give a definite end date to this sale, so if you’re interested in any of the Pangea titles, you might want to snap ‘em up while you have the chance! Enjoy!
Safari sporadically crashing and burning on you? Can’t figure out why or when it will happen next? I can’t, either. But I have a theory…
I’m going to hypothesize that there’s no rhyme or reason for Safari crashes because it’s not really Safari’s fault: It’s falling victim to poor memory management from the application you used just prior. If you use an app that is memory intensive and that doesn’t free all the memory back up when you quit from it, you’re starting Safari at a disadvantage. Safari will motor along for as long as it can, but when it runs out of memory it seizes up and/or boots you out.
I’d suggest trying the following:
Crash and burn. Bad bad app.
My main complaint with Audi A4 Driving Challenge is that it’s not point of view driving! WTH? If you’re a car company making a game to tout your A4 line, at LEAST make it a driver’s seat experience. This looks down from above, Like it’s a toy car. I can’t drive toy cars. I get turned around and don’t know the car’s right from it’s left. So I can’t steer properly and run down small children and old ladies. Anyone without the good sense or ability to get out from in front of the car. No problem with sitting in the driver’s seat, however.
As a minor quibble, there’s no sound effects. Hello? I can’t rev the engine? Is this an electric car or what?
The acceleration is WAY to quick also. There’s no way to drive slowly that I can tell, so I can even learn the steering and get used to steering from above. To complicate that, there’s not enough track showing to anticipate what’s coming so turns come out of nowhere.
It’s maddening and I quit after 5 minutes.
At least it’s worth what I paid for it. Nothing. So that’s something. Don’t even bother with it.
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If words like gnusto, blorple, and rezrov instantly bring you back to glorious days and nights of text adventuring on your Apple IIe, you’ll be enthralled to know that Inform has come to the iPhone. Inform, the compiler used to produce text adventure classics, may have faded into the background over the last few decades, eclipsed by graphical gaming powerhouses like Pong, but it never really went away. Indeed, amateur coders from around the world are still pumping out text adventures on a regular basis. There are even annual competitions. Now, using Frotz, you have access to the fruits of their collected labor.
FINALLY. A god blessed cribbage app. What took so long?
Unfortunately it’s EXTREMELY basic. The most basic graphics imaginable. No fancy animation. No skill level choice. No play against another person. No sound.
The game play is fine. I couldn’t really spot any places where I would play much differently than the bot. But no animation means you can’t tell precisely how many points were gained pegging, because the cardplay and peg movements occur at the same time. So while you’re playing the cards you miss the peg advance. But there is a numerical counter.
But all the graphics are incredibly SMALL. Barely readable. It’s hard to tell the difference between clubs and spades, at least to my tired old eyes.
Do you really really need a cribbage game on the phone? Then pay the $5. If you’re indifferent about the game, save your money and wait for a better, slicker, more readable interface.
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