Chillingo keeps digging through the App Store, with new games frequently bubbling up, and this week, their games are about both digging and bubbles!
First up is Diggin’ Dogs, a game where three precocious puppies dig their way through levels, collecting coins and bones on their way to getting the golden treasure at the end of each level. Players use their finger to cut through the dirt, creating paths for the dogs to travel, swipe upward on the dogs to make them jump, and tilt left and right to move the dogs, as well as maneuver treasure. There are over 60 levels in this game for iPhone and iPod touch, available now.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2012-02-09 :: Category: Games
Next up is Bubble in Paradise, a word game where players try form words by popping bubbles that contain letters. The bubbles come in various sizes and point values, and they must be popped before the screen becomes overcrowded with bubbles and it’s game over. The game comes with four modes: Normal, Blitz, Endless, and Battle, which is playable against an online opponent. The universal app is available for $0.99.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Posted January 20th, 2012 by Greg Dawson Our Rating: :: NEXT TOP CHEF
Order Up! To Go is a solid time-management game for those looking to become the next "Top Chef." Despite the freemium version's ad-stricken gameplay, there's a lot of addictive potential to be unlocked.
Infinity Field HD released last year with promises of a remote control mode in the future; the future is now here, thanks to everyone’s favorite general-purpose iOS remote control app, Joypad! By loading up the app, players can use their iPhone or iPod touch to play the dual-stick shooter remotely. The dual joysticks work a lot better than many games, because it’s easier to note the position of the joysticks without looking at the remote device’s screen because of the direct feedback as to firing or movement direction versus trying to locate virtual buttons. However, the most exciting feature of the update is that this is the first Joypad-enabled game to support multiplayer! By loading up two iPhones or iPod touches with Joypad on the same wireless network, the game’s multiplayer mode can be enjoyed on the iPad, or on the TV when connected to an external display with mirroring. As well, this update brings a new game mode to play, Hammer mode, where the only weapon is a familiar constantly circling the player’s ship. This mode is available in both single and multiplayer modes, and the free update is available now.
It may be a new year, but Chillingo isn’t forgetting about their previous releases, as they have announced an update for one of their games, and a new free version for another.
Parking Mania now has free versions for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad. These are full versions of Parking Mania, where the goal is to park cars in tricky and tight spaces. Parking Mania Free features ads that can be removed, purchasable level packs, and a golden car that will allow players to not fail when they reach their last life. However, even with all these purchasable items, the game still comes with 60 levels of intense parking action! It’s more fun than actual parking is.
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Released: 2012-01-09 :: Category: Games
The world’s favorite game involving tossing ninjas throwing shurikens at targets, Ninja Throw, has been updated with a new level pack, Master of the Dojo, containing 15 new levels. The game is also on sale for $0.99 for both the iPhone/iPod touch version, and universal iPad version. I’m no genius, but the latter sounds like the smart money option.
It’s quite astonishing to think that two years has passed since the release of a little game about throwing birds at pigs. Yup, it’s Angry Birds‘s second birthday!
The biggest gaming success story on the app store is celebrating such exciting times with the release of 15 brand new levels full of birthday cakes and celebratory balloons. Very appropriate given developers, Rovio’s history of regularly updating the title.
Included within this update is the new Orange Bird that propels any object it touches plus special birthday achievements.
Co-founder and co-general manager at Chillingo, Chris Byatte, sums up the magnitude of the game best: “After two years, Angry Birds continues to delight fans and remain a steady fixture on the App Store’s top ten charts .This is quite a testament to the success indie developers can achieve with the right title, publishing partner and promotional support.”
Check out the screenshots below while downloading the update. It’s available now for iPhone and iPad owners.
It’s the end of the week and guess what that means? The weekend, yes, but also new releases from Chillingo!
This time round, Chillingo have doled out cuddly sheep, book dragons (!) and a bouncy ball courtesy of Home Sheep Home 2, Let Me Out and Stretched.
As the number suggests, Home Sheep Home 2 is a sequel to Shaun the Sheep’s first outing. Players get to experience a whole new bunch of levels, over 40 in all, as they help Shaun, Timmy and Shirley sheep as they explore and negotiate the streets of London. Each sheep has their own set of unique abilities, all of which can be used to traverse the levels.
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2011-12-08 :: Category: Games
Secondly is Let Me Out, a game centered on the adventures of a book dragon. The player must guide the loveable dragon across 100 levels over 5 different worlds. Numerous puzzles must be solved through the use of different elements and there’s also the prospect of collecting golden pages too.
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2011-12-08 :: Category: Games
Last but not least, Stretched is all about flinging a ball with eyes from catapult to catapult across 84 different stages. More puzzles are available here and there’s plenty of bubbles to pop along the way too.
With the holidays right around the corner, many developers are releasing holiday-related updates for their apps, not to mention extra content in general. Chillingo is one such company. The publisher contacted us today to inform us about its own holiday gift to its fans.
For fans of Cut the Rope, the studio is releasing Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift, which comes with 25 holiday-themed levels and holiday-themed obstacles. The levels in the game feature holiday-inspired visuals, including scattered Christmas trees and ropes made of lights. Furthermore, some levels feature holiday stockings with special physics effects. Users can drop candy into on stocking and it’ll shoot out of another.
The update also adds a new holiday gift card feature. Here, users can create gift cards by adding the game’s mascot, Om Nom, to pictures in user’s photo library. There are also other holiday related visual effects that users can superimpose over their photos, including Santa hats, bells and more.
The best part about Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift is it’s free.
The publisher is also celebrating the third-year anniversary of Sneezies with a free update for fans. The update adds new levels to play through. The developer chose to make the content available to all users, including those who have not played through the original set.
“Before this update, we hesitated to add new levels to Sneezies, because we know the Classic game mode gets progressively harder, and making it to the end is pretty epic already,” the developer wrote in its blog update. “So, we added a completely new menu option: New Sneezies.”
Both the Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift and Sneezies update are now available on the iTunes App Store.
Chillingo released three new titles last week, all under the clickgamer.com brand and each distinct. Saving Moo pits aliens against cows with only the farmer, himself having being abducted before and now ready, standing between them. This arcade game will have players blasting aliens with 17 funny weapons like egg cannons and marshmallow guns over 25 equally funny action filled levels.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2011-10-27 :: Category: Games
Candy Town is a simple match-3 style game that stimulates a players appetite and their ability to think fast. Connect at least three of the same flavor and create combos of like-colored cupcakes to progress through increasingly difficult levels or race against the clock.
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2011-10-27 :: Category: Games
We’re most excited about SpinTrip, however, that has elements of a fantasy adventure gaming in a platform set-up. Evil Gants have stolen magic Shims, so with the help of magical Chibs gamers embark on a quest across the land of Canoo to save them. Confused? Watch the trailer and see for yourself.
Posted October 25th, 2011 by Michael Halloran Our Rating: :: ALL ABOARD!
This new train adventure combines many familiar game elements to create lovable characters and a friendly environment. Gameplay is amusing and has the right amount of challenging goals to keep players satisfied.
Recently at the Eurogamer Expo in London, I had the opportunity to check out some upcoming titles from the casual gaming maestros at Chillingo.
First up was Super Crossfire, originally an Xbox Live Indie and PC game that’s now making its way to the iPhone and iPad. It’s a space shooter with a very retro style appearance and one very neat trick up its sleeve. The player can warp their ship from one side of the screen to the other, effectively flicking the action upside down and round again.
Having played it, it adds a great tactical element to things as besides just shooting at everything that moves, it’s important to remember to flip round to avoid being shot at. It’s clearly going to take a bit of practice to master but I think arcade shooter fans are going to lap this up as it offers a great, unique element to the genre. Hopefully other players will find themselves not quite as shockingly bad at it as I was!
Developers Radian Games state that there’ll be over 150 different enemy waves across five different chapters with a plentiful supply of upgrades to keep things interesting. In the final build, there’ll be three different control methods with virtual buttons, slide and tilt based controls to hopefully keep every gamer happy.
Super Crossfire is set for release this coming Thursday, October 13th and will be priced at $0.99 for the iPhone version and $2.99 for the HD iPad edition.
Following a more familiar line of gaming for Chillingo is Little Lost Chick. It’s an amalgamation of a number of different types of casual games. There’s Cut the Rope style elements with the need to cut rope that keeps the chick from his goal. It’s not just cutting and swinging though with bounce pads and blocks also helping along the way and adding an ever enjoyable original touch to the action.
I only played a few levels of Little Lost Chick but what I saw was enjoyable. While players can choose to just get to the end of the level, there’s also the prospect of collecting up three eggs scattered around each level and adding some longevity to the game. Each brief stage was consistently interesting, throwing different obstacles at poor Bruce the chick. It made for a puzzle adventure type experience than just the usual physics puzzle challenge. The full version promises 100 levels in all which should ensure an enjoyable time for puzzle fans.
Little Lost Chick is set to launch this month for all iOS devices.
Last but most definitely not least was Hank Hazard, my personal favorite of the three. Hank Hazard is the name of an adorable stunt hamster. Players must guide Hank around numerous levels whilst collecting stars and secret coins. Gameplay is a little similar to Little Lost Chick but considerable charm oozes from the title. Again, there are 100 levels on offer, each combining a mixture of physics based puzzling, fast reactions and a hint of racing.
As the screenshots below show, Hank is a daring hamster, not just falling through each stage but by flying across the air thanks to boxing gloves and bouncey pads. As a stunt hamster, fire and other obstacles like bombs must be avoided. It’s a simple concept but one that I think will be quite a hit if the preview I had is anything to go by.
Hank Hazard will be released for all iOS devices in November.
We’ll be sure to keep track of each game’s development.
Back in June, Chillingo decided to mix it up a little by releasing something kind of different from their usual style. That game was action RPG shooter D.A.R.K, a title that was different and kind of fun but ultimately lacking a hook to make it a cut above the rest.
A few months later and there’s been a substantial update made to the title. The gameplay has been upgraded and rebalanced with the ability to adjust the difficulty level from within the options menu included. Theres a new lighting engine to make the visuals look even more eye popping. More exciting is the announcement that the story mode has benefited from a major update, including new levels, a new story to follow and ‘much more’ which sounds intriguing enough. Players will also now be able to explore beyond the grim and dark ship and venture onto the alien planet itself before delving into a secret facility under the ground’s surface.
A new Arena mode has also been included so that players can take their customized character between the two modes, and there’s a whole host of new enemies to defeat and armor to collect.
Sounds like quite a substantial update to me. For those who haven’t yet played D.A.R.K., it’s downloadable now for $0.99 and it’s an universal app which is always convenient.
Chillingo keeps digging through the App Store, with new games frequently bubbling up, and this week, their games are about both digging and bubbles!
Next up is Bubble in Paradise, a word game where players try form words by popping bubbles that contain letters. The bubbles come in various sizes and point values, and they must be popped before the screen becomes overcrowded with bubbles and it’s game over. The game comes with four modes: Normal, Blitz, Endless, and Battle, which is playable against an online opponent. The universal app is available for $0.99.
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Infinity Field HD released last year with promises of a remote control mode in the future; the future is now here, thanks to everyone’s favorite general-purpose iOS remote control app, Joypad! By loading up the app, players can use their iPhone or iPod touch to play the dual-stick shooter remotely. The dual joysticks work a lot better than many games, because it’s easier to note the position of the joysticks without looking at the remote device’s screen because of the direct feedback as to firing or movement direction versus trying to locate virtual buttons. However, the most exciting feature of the update is that this is the first Joypad-enabled game to support multiplayer! By loading up two iPhones or iPod touches with Joypad on the same wireless network, the game’s multiplayer mode can be enjoyed on the iPad, or on the TV when connected to an external display with mirroring. As well, this update brings a new game mode to play, Hammer mode, where the only weapon is a familiar constantly circling the player’s ship. This mode is available in both single and multiplayer modes, and the free update is available now.
Parking Mania now has free versions for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad. These are full versions of Parking Mania, where the goal is to park cars in tricky and tight spaces. Parking Mania Free features ads that can be removed, purchasable level packs, and a golden car that will allow players to not fail when they reach their last life. However, even with all these purchasable items, the game still comes with 60 levels of intense parking action! It’s more fun than actual parking is.
The biggest gaming success story on the app store is celebrating such exciting times with the release of 15 brand new levels full of birthday cakes and celebratory balloons. Very appropriate given developers, Rovio’s 
With the holidays right around the corner, many developers are releasing holiday-related updates for their apps, not to mention extra content in general. Chillingo is one such company. The publisher contacted us today to inform us about its own holiday gift to its fans. 
Fiery debate!
Having played it, it adds a great tactical element to things as besides just shooting at everything that moves, it’s important to remember to flip round to avoid being shot at. It’s clearly going to take a bit of practice to master but I think arcade shooter fans are going to lap this up as it offers a great, unique element to the genre. Hopefully other players will find themselves not quite as shockingly bad at it as I was!
Following a more familiar line of gaming for Chillingo is Little Lost Chick. It’s an amalgamation of a number of different types of casual games. There’s 
Last but most definitely not least was Hank Hazard, my personal favorite of the three. Hank Hazard is the name of an adorable stunt hamster. Players must guide Hank around numerous levels whilst collecting stars and secret coins. Gameplay is a little similar to Little Lost Chick but considerable charm oozes from the title. Again, there are 100 levels on offer, each combining a mixture of physics based puzzling, fast reactions and a hint of racing. 
A few months later and there’s been a substantial update made to the title. The gameplay has been upgraded and rebalanced with the ability to adjust the difficulty level from within the options menu included. Theres a new lighting engine to make the visuals look even more eye popping. More exciting is the announcement that the story mode has benefited from a major update, including new levels, a new story to follow and ‘much more’ which sounds intriguing enough. Players will also now be able to explore beyond the grim and dark ship and venture onto the alien planet itself before delving into a secret facility under the ground’s surface. 
