Nearly Daily iOS Update 11 May 2011

Whew! This moving the main office from Europe to the US is hard work. It seems we’ve sluffed off on the iOS updates so here’s an extra big one for you to chomp into while you have some GDN iOS update 11 may 11 coffee.

Doodle Kart Multiplay Races into the App Store

Doodle Kart Multiplay has driven into the iTunes App Store. Doodle Kart is a Doodle style top down driving game. The unique racer is a very different driving experience on iOS, featuring stationary-related weapons to fire at your opponents during the several cups and championships users can make their way through. For some special items, you can even enlarge your car to run over the other cars.

Features:
* You can import/draw your own face
* Boss levels
* 24 different weapons
* 4 different mana items
* 5 different environments
* 10 dolls to collect

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 61.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Doodle Kart - Multiplay 4.2 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. There is a Lite version available.

Doodle Kart - Multiplay 4.2: http://j2sighte.com
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/j2sighte/id309192476

Slash Your Way through an Epic Experience within Colorflys SD

Wichita based iGotIt Games today introduces Colorflys SD 1.0, a visually pleasing butterfly capture experience for Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. The goal of capturing butterflies is simple, but the experience surrounding the goal is what creates something unique for the iOS platform. Perfect for kids and family, the game will challenge players memory, dexterity and ability to recognize opportunity.

Feature Overview:
* Beautiful graphics which look absolutely stunning on retina devices
* 60 awesome levels that take you through 3 different environments
* Original music with fantastic nature sounds
* Challenges introduced gradually which will twist the way you capture butterflies
* Features a mode for our really young players, which will allow you to modify the difficulty
* Leaderboards / Achievements which are specific to iPhone/iPod players
* Facebook and Twitter integration

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 20.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Colorflys SD 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Colorflys for iPad is $1.99. Promotional Codes are available on request for Colorflys and Colorflys SD. Please contact David McGraw.

Colorflys SD 1.0: http://colorflys.igotitgames.com
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id431635520

Bunny the Zombie Slayer Delivers a Basketful of Updates

Hothead Games today announced a batch of updates to their popular iOS zombie-defense game, Bunny the Zombie Slayer. Released today, this update offers expanded gameplay and in-game improvements for additional hours of zombie killing fun.

Bunny the Zombie Slayer version 1.2 now includes:

Three different modes to play
º Classic: How many waves of zombies can you defeat with your hardboiled hand-grenades?
º 28 Waves Later: Put your skills to the test with even more hordes of zombies and no special eggs to bail you out.
º Time Attack: Kill as many zombies as possible in 2 minutes—aim for the head for bonus time and high scores.
Game Center support with leaderboards for each mode
Native Retina Display support
Automatic detection for device orientation
Smaller download size

Ship Captain Crew Dice Game Now Available for iOS

C-130 Games LLC announces Ship Captain Crew 1.0.8, their first dice game for iPhone, iTouch and iPad devices. Quick to learn, user friendly and lot of fun, Ship Captain Crew is a dice game of chance. The game can be played with as few as two people but is usually played in groups of four, five or more. Player status levels and error messages are editable to individualize each players’ version. Stats are saved and restored, so the player can resume right at the point where play was interrupted.

Other Great Features of Ship Captain Crew:
* Player status levels and error messages are editable to individualize each players version
* On all supported iOS versions, game stats are saved and restored, so the player can resume right at the point where play was interrupted
* No advertisements

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 4.2 or later
* 0.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Ship Captain Crew 1.0.8 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Ship Captain Crew 1.0.8: http://www.c130games.com
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id423395259

Melon Truck 1.0.2 for iOS - New Version of Highly Addicting Game

California based independent developer, Batuhan Akalin today announces Melon Truck 1.0.2, an update to his challenging hit arcade and puzzle game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. With medium to easy learning curve, and easy-to-use controls, game play consists of launching melons from a melon truck to baskets that vary in points. Melon Truck will keep the entire family busy whether the gamer is 7 or 70 years old. Version 1.0.2 offers a better game play experience and enhanced graphics.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 12.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Melon Truck 1.0.2 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Melon Truck 1.0.2: http://www.melontruck.com
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id431036115

Motocross Legend Ricky Carmichael Races into the iTunes App Store in Ricky Carmichael’s Motocross Matchup

Twist the throttle and get ready to hit the dirt, because 2XL Games has revealed that Ricky Carmichael’s Motocross Matchup, the first mobile game featuring motocross legend Ricky Carmichael is available now in the App Store! Players can download the gas-powered, adrenaline-infused dirt bike racing game for free and jump into the world of professional motocross.

Ricky Carmichael’s Motocross Matchup offers players a suite of in-game features, including a gesture-based stunt system for pulling off some sick tricks, an RPG-like system that lets players earn wrenches for gas and performance upgrades for your officially licensed Suzuki motocross bike and character, as well as full Game Center integration, which allows players to race against, send invites to, and talk with friends in-game using Live Chat. Compete online in a head-to-head Matchup mode that lets players race in real-time against friends and other racers all over the world in order to move up the leaderboards.

Armor Games Catapults Warspark’s Siege Hero Onto iOS

Did you hear that? That’s the sound of your castle getting crushed by boulders, inspired by the launch of Siege Hero on iPhone, iPod Touch ($0.99) and iPad ($2.99). Take destructive pride in seeing the castles and fortresses knocked down, set on fire and blown to bits with each and every tap of your finger in this addictive physics-based game.

Siege Hero is inspired by Armor Games’ wildly popular Crush the Castle series, which already has over 224 million plays, and the flash-based game Sieger, which had 28 million online plays since its release in 2010. The game was developed by Anton Fedoruk’s Warspark, the designer behind the original Sieger and Siege Hero.

• Use fire, rocks, oil and many other destructive means to destroy structures of all shapes and sizes.
• Slick, visceral gameplay that will satisfy your inner rage. Briefly.
• Fight through 84 levels of castle-crashing action – hours of gameplay!
• Rich retina graphics (iPod Touch 3rd Generation or iPhone 4 only).
• Play through three historically inaccurate eras, fighting Samurais, Vikings and Knights.
• Regular updates and level packs planned by the Siege Hero team.

Get Your BOOMSTICKS Ready as Backflip Studios and MGM Studios Pair Up to Launch Army of Darkness: Defense for iPhone and iPad

Buckle up boneheads ‘cause you’re going for a ride! Backflip Studios (www.backflipstudios.com), the popular mobile game developer with hits such as Paper Toss, Ragdoll Blaster 2 and NinJump, announced today that through a partnership with MGM Studios, it will release Army of Darkness: Defense, a mobile castle defense game based on the 1992 classic film “Army of Darkness”. The game will feature the infamous dialogue from the movie’s protagonist, Ash Williams (memorably played by Bruce Campbell), and other characters drawn directly from the film.

In perhaps the most perfect marriage of a film scene and game premise of all time, Army of Darkness: Defense is a castle defense game that takes place during the pivotal castle scene within the movie where Ash and his allies defend the powerful Necronomicon (book) within Lord Arthur’s fortress from the onslaught of Deadites (living dead). Gamers take on the role of the chiseled chin, one-liner-spouting Ash while summoning familiar troops, spells and weapons from the movie to help in the defense. Gameplay features include over 150 direct lines of dialogue from Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, and beautifully animated graphics using the well-known “Granny 3D” engine. Army of Darkness: Defense gives Ash the ability to call upon a wide variety of allies to help preserve the Necronomicon including swordsman, armored knights, archers and more. In addition to the originally composed sound and music, the app also features many of the famous characters from the movie including Arthur, Henry, Sheila, the Wiseman, Evil Ash, and more.

Army of Darkness: Defense will be available in the Apple App Store for the iPhone/iPod Touch for $0.99 and for the iPad for $2.99 on Thursday, May 12, 2011, so in the words of Ash himself, “Come get some!”

3D Ball Bounce Game BounceBounce Goes Free for a Limited Time

ATO is pleased to announce that BounceBounce 1.0.1 is free for a limited time. It’s a good time to enjoy this innovative game that is unlike common ball rollers. This game is very simple and does not need any complicated control except tilting. This game is motivated by bouncing a ball on the racket as much as possible. With the tilt sensor in your device, it becomes a racket, and the ball bouncing on the racket can be driven to the specific point as a tilt of the device.

Features in this game:
* Designed 80 standard stages which make the most of the panel’s characteristics
* Up to 50 user stages which can be generated randomly under the various settings which determine the stage configurations after clearing all standard stages
* Up to 6 game slots which can be created new game slots
* Choice one of 3 play levels - easy, normal and hard
* 9 different types of panels
* 5 stage levels which have the different difficulty as the number of obstacles of each stage
* Time and count attack game modes

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 17.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
BounceBounce 1.0.1 is free (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

ATO: http://e-ato.blogspot.com/
BounceBounce 1.0.1: http://e-ato.blogspot.com/2011/04/very-fresh-and-new-game-bouncebounce.html
Download from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id432633419

Sugar Rush Comes to the iPhone

Notion today introduces Sugar Rush for iPhone 1.0, their second game for iOS. You are a small orange creature with an appetite for desserts, cakes and ice cream. Tilt your device to eat candies and other treats. Every single tasty morsel allows you to bounce higher into the sky. When you have 100 points or more, you can save yourself by jumping. Compete against other players for the highest score and try to rack up achievements in Game Center.

Features:
* Beautiful standard and retina display graphics, with original music
* Bonus candies with special powers
* Infinite jumping space
* Unique gameplay mixing rescue and action that tests your dexterity
* Local and Game Center leader-board with 15 achievements
* Share your score on Twitter and FaceBook.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later
* 10.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Sugar Rush for iPhone 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Notion: http://madebynotion.com
Sugar Rush for iPhone 1.0: http://sugarrush-app.com/
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id429075351

Getting Jiggy - Introducing a New Addictive Puzzle Game for iPhone

Independent developer Joe Pitto today introduces Getting Jiggy 1.0 his new puzzle/match game for iOS devices. Offering a completely new way of playing puzzle games, in Getting Jiggy you don’t actually build the puzzle. Instead the puzzle gets built for you. You will be presented with a blank canvas that will slowly be filled with missing jigsaw pieces. The image will be revealed to you bit by bit and your aim is to try and guess the picture in the puzzle as fast as you can.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* 8.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Getting Jiggy 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. So what are you waiting for. Grab your iDevice, a copy of Getting Jiggy and don’t miss out on this new, easy and very exciting puzzle game.

Joe Pitto Games: http://www.gibconnect.com/~waroma/iGames.html
Getting Jiggy 1.0: http://www.gibconnect.com/~waroma/jiggy.html
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id435092668