Over at Amazon’s Appstore, they give away a new and exciting Android app for free; every day. Today’s App of the Day is an endlessly frustrating game called X Construction. Players must build bridges to support a passing train; fail at this and you will cause the deaths of every passenger aboard the train. Let’s take a look! X Construction utilizes a really fun physics engine and offers some really neat creative options for players and gets you thinking about how to build your bridge the best to get this train from A to B. Build bridges, not walls, with X Construction loaded on your Android (OS 2.1 or higher), and then send a train across your creation to see if it holds up under the pressure, or collapses into catastrophe. Representing a real-world twist on the addictive physics-based casual game genre, X Construction uses the materials and building principles of civil engineering as you try out new bridge designs and test their strength with fully loaded trains. For each of the first 15 Crossing levels, you’ll be given a limited amount of supplies to build your bridge, and a limited number of foundation base-points to use as structural anchors. As you lay the girders, concrete and cables down with a touch and drag of your fingertip, you have control over the material’s length, to a point. And this is where the puzzling, exciting aspect of the game comes into play: simply placing girders in a random but eye-pleasing manner will likely result in a literal train wreck of a project. Crossings Crossings are kind of the bread and butter of X Construction, so to speak. In these levels, your task is simple; build a durable and safe bridge that a train can cross safely over. While that sounds pretty straightforward, Read More
The official Twitter application for Android is about to receive a major UI overhaul. Twitter for Android 2.0 is a completely new user interface, with an emphasis on speed. The new app allows you to easily select from you timeline, @ mentions, DM’s and other options that include favorites and lists. Tweeting also receives an update. The interface looks more like the web based “new” Twitter and it’s a major departure from the current app. No word on when this will be available in the Market. email Read More
