Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter is a free to play mobile base-building game from Bethesda, revealed during their E3 conference. Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Hill Bill – Trick Jumping Trailer
Balloon 27’s upcoming iOS motorcycle trick jumping game Hill Bill has now got a trick jumping trailer:
Interactive Guessing Game ‘GuessMe’ Available Now
Dutch app developer Buro DOKO today announced that the studio’s first game, GuessMe, is now available for free download in the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and on Google Play for Android and Android Tablet! (No longer available on Android, thanks Julien!)
Unity Offers Free Mobile Publishing Tools
Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, is pushing the democratization of game development further than ever before by making its basic mobile tools completely free to independent developers and small studios!
Angry Frogs!
A long while ago, I was introduced to Angry Birds, an addictive puzzle game which has you firing a variety of birds at the homes of Pigs. I played this first on Tim’s phone, and then more recently on the PC, where I made a little more progress as I was able to sit down with it for more than a few minutes.
Today, I spotted a mention of the game on Twitter, shortly followed by a mention of “Angry Frogs”! It appeared to be a copy of Angry Birds, but still.. I had to try it.. but I soon wished I hadn’t.
The gameplay itself was no more than a copy of Angry Birds’, with frogs instead of birds being fired at their target via slingshot.
Something was missing though.. Angry Birds had a nice little intro, where you saw that the pigs had stolen the birds’ eggs to cook for breakfast.. enough to see them as the bad guys. No such intro on Angry Frogs.. and even having played the first three levels, I don’t know what the enemies are meant to be.. red frogs? dragons? snakes?
The graphics though, were really poor, lacking the polish and clear effort that Rovio had put into Angry Birds. Weaker backgrounds could have been forgiven, but the graphics for the frogs, enemies and their bases were also bad, despite being something so simple.
Angry Frogs really is a shameless and charmless rip-off all round.. one to avoid!