In May of last year we first took a look at DifferentCloth's Lilt Line [$2.99], a well received rhythm game with a great soundtrack. Lilt Line was a little on the simple side, but the overall experience of the game was really cool as the tilt and tap based gameplay was paired really well with the music. Earlier today Helicoid was announced, which looks to be a somewhat similar music-based game only this time it's based on tilting your phone around to advance through a spiral. It's hard to make out how much fun the game will be from the video alone, but I expect it to be a bit like Lilt Line in that it won't really make sense until you've got the game in your hands. Helicoid was submitted to the App Store yesterday, and DifferentCloth expects it to be released sometime next week. For more details, check out Read More

Posted 03/12/2010 at 1:50pm | by Florence Ion For the past twelve years, the Independent Games Festival has been a platform upon which indie game developers could showcase their work and receive some constructive feedback in return. The event is held annually at the Games Developer Conference and is the best place to see up-and-coming developers strut their stuff. This year, we got to talk to a developer whose team used Utility on their Macs to produce an engaging top-down platformer, and two developers who are utilizing the accelerometer on the iPhone to develop imaginative mobile games. First up, we have a game from a team of students from The National Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment (DADIU), who managed to put together this artsy looking puzzle game in no more than four-weeks time. The game is called Puzzle Bloom, and the premise of it is to assist a kindred tree spirit Read More

9 Mar 2010 alle 18:20 Come ogni anno Apple ha dedicato una pagina su iTunes alla nuova edizione dell’Indipendent Gems Festival Mobile 2010, competizione dedicata ai migliori giochi indipendenti ed autoprodotti che, nonostante i budget ridotti, offrono tanto divertimento agli utenti. Vediamo quali sono questi titoli. Per vedere la pagina di Apple, cliccate qui, ed aprirete l’iTunes Store direttamente sul vostro computer. Read More

Independent Games Festival (IGF) will be handing out their 2010 Best Mobile Game award to one lucky developer during the IGF Awards at GDC 2010.  But before that big event even takes place, Apple has chosen to recognize the entire group of honorees for this year’s IGF Mobile awards by devoting an entire App Store page to them. The page is accessible via the giant “Independent Games Festival Mobile” ad on the front of the App Store, or you can just follow this link. The IGF Mobile finalists include: And the honorable mentions include: Category winners have already been revealed with Stair Dismount winning Technical Achievement, Lilt Line winning Audio Achievement, and Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor winning Best iPhone Game.  All finalists will be competing for the Best Mobile Game award worth $2,500 at GDC 2010.  Good luck everyone! Read More

06.16.09        App Score: 7/10    lilt line - As the music genre continues to gain mainstream traction with the Guitar Heros and Rock Bands of the world, it’s inevitable that we’ll see efforts that aim to imitate instead of innovate. This point has already been proven with six versions of the critically and casually acclaimed “Tap Tap Revenge” titles on the iPhone. To my delight, the group at different cloth (btw, doesn’t that name kick ass?) has dropped an inspired musical confection to obliterate all the clones. Lilt line will not change the world, but I can confidently say that it’ll make you hopeful about the future of musical games on the iPhone. At the core of lilt line is its use of the dubstep genre of music grown out of the UK garage era back in 2000. There are a few interpretations of what the musical style Read More

16 May 2009 alle 12:00 Voto Utenti: [ratings] è un originalissimo gioco musicale per i Phone. In maniera analoga a Copter dovremo utilizzare l’accelerometro per consentire ad una linea bianca di fare il suo percorso attraverso dei tunnel generando della musica. Ad intervalli piu o meno regolari appriranno anche delle strisce e dovremo tappare sullo schermo non appena si sovrapporranno con la linea bianca.    In questo modo creeremo il ritmo e staremo al tempo di musica. La grafica è semplice ed anche il gameplay è molto immediato. Ci sono 10 livelli con una difficoltà crescente e la possibilità di migliorare il proprio record a livello di punteggio. Ecco un video dimostrativo che chiarirà le idee: Read More

DifferentCloth's Lilt Line [$2.99] is an original music/rhythm game for the iPhone set to a dubstep soundtrack by 16bit. In a world of match-3 games, DifferentCloth delivers a refreshing concept that I love -- but a little more in theory than in practice. The game is stylistically simple which seems to work. The gameplay is also somewhat simple. Steer a growing line through a simple maze while avoiding the walls. Tap on the screen as you pass white bars which represent beats in the music. Manage to accomplish both of these tasks and you are rewarded with a smooth playing soundtrack. Miss a bar or hit a wall, and the music still stutter and your score will lower. The game contains only 10 levels of progressive difficulty and has been criticized for being short, though getting a perfect score on each level will take some time. Music/rhythm gamer fans or anyone Read More

Who’s that knockin’ at your door? Why it’s none other than the freshest pickings from the App Store, joined by a smattering of Apple news. Before we get stuck in to this week’s iPhone picks and recommendations from the App Store, let’s shift our focus for a moment and have a quick recap on what went down this week. There’s so much to get through here, so let’s kick off by rewinding back to Monday where Apple launched a new iPhone OS 3.0 beta, sliding in a selection of new features including settings for push notification and audio scrubbing in the iPod app. Plus, David Appleyard took a look at iStat for iPhone. The $1.99 app is a useful tool for remotely monitoring your system performance and resources. The very next day, Amazon swallowed up iPhone developer Lexcycle. A significant purchase indeed because Lexcycle is the brains behind Stanza, a wonderful Read More

Lilt line is another one of those games that has been created as a project focused not on complicated textures and intricate storylines, but on simplistic controls and direct correlation with a unique music soundtrack. The game desires to pull gamers from their expectation of great graphics and complicated storylines found commonly as the goal of most developers. It instead attempts to immerse the player in an experience crafted by the music it is featuring. Lilt line's whole game play consists of directing an ever-moving line towards a goal while avoiding the boundaries and twists of the level. The level is constructed to flow with the beat of the underlying electronic dubstep and industrial tracks. The result is a musical experience that really activates more than just your hearing and wraps every part of you around the sometimes chaotic beats of the music. Not content with just having their player navigate Read More