The original Avengers Alliance game was a beefy beat ’em up for superheroes, and its sequel is even beefier. One question mark: are in-app purchases that go up past £50 really a good thing in a game based on a children’s film? The action here is more like pinball crossed with mini-golf, as you ping birds around levels collecting eggs. Released to pave the way for the upcoming Angry Birds film, this is another departure from the original side-on bird-flinging gameplay. Choose-your-own-adventure with great writing, and better hats. Set in a London “stolen by bats”, it’s an absorbing “literary RPG” that sees you exploring the Victorian capital and finding your fortune. There’s some excellent work being done around interactive fiction at the moment, with Fallen London one of the best examples. The gameplay is still Frogger-style road-hopping, with bags of charm and lots of characters to unlock. Power-ups for your army spice up the asynchronous action.ġ20m downloads later, popular game Crossy Road gets an official Disney spin-off, with characters and levels from films including Toy Story, The Lion King and Wreck-It Ralph. Nintendophiles who loved strategy game Advance Wars are getting excited about Warbits: it’s a similarly-brilliant turn-based strategy game with the added draw of online and local multiplayer battles. It complements, rather than replaces, sitting down for a good old natter with them, mind. Relatives are asked weekly questions about their lives, which build up into an archive. Whether you’re researching your family tree or simply keen on picking your older relations’ brains for memories, StoryWorth is an interesting idea. Now FreshTeam is throwing its hat into the ring with a messaging app designed for colleagues: including a map to see who’s where, and group voice-calls. You can download podcasts for offline listening too.Ī growing number of businesses and work teams are using tools like Slack to keep in touch. Aurora is one of the apps trying to help people discover more podcasts to listen to, with a team of editors making their recommendations. There is more to podcasting than Serial, believe it or not. An interesting idea, but will it catch on? It wants to get people hosting talkshow-style chats about any topic they like, inviting their audience to contribute thoughts, reactions and GIFs. Subtitled “Texting in public”, this is the new startup from a former Twitter exec. Now it’s a mobile group-video-chat app, where up to six friends can talk, watch videos and listen to streaming music. In fact, it’s a relaunch of an earlier web-based video-chat service. It “filters your acoustic environment”, a bit like an equalizer for the sounds around you, with settings including Sleep, Relax and Office.Īirtime is the latest thing from Napster / Facebook veteran Sean Parker. Now it’s back with Hear, which promises to make rush-hour city-strolling less stressful. It serves up flashcards, videos, quizzes and other accessible information for subjects, tuning its content depending what exam board the student is under.ĭeveloper RjDj was around in the early days of the App Store making innovative audio apps. Simple to start with, but lots of scope for creativity.Īnother BBC app, but this time aimed at older children: those studying for GCSE and higher exams at school. The Infinite Arcade is an accessible app for kids to create Arkanoid-style bat/ball/bricks games, platformers, pinballers and more. It’s only available in the UK.Ī brilliant app for anyone worried that their children might enjoy making games as well as playing them. Now they’ve got their own app, offering shows from its CBeebies and CBBC channels, filtered by age. You get a performance, the full text, lots of explanatory notes and information, and experts Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Jonathan Bate explaining it all.Ĭhildren’s shows are one of the most popular categories on the BBC’s iPlayer catch-up TV service. With Shakespeare in the news thanks to the 400th anniversary of his death, this is the first of a planned series of 37 apps “demystifying” his plays. Heuristic Shakespeare – The Tempest (£4.49)
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