If you’ve not yet had a chance to try out Social Break or the free version Social Break Lite, you can now see what all the fuss is about by checking out the latest gameplay video.
If you enjoyed the look of that, head on over to the App Store to try it out!
Social Break is the unique & innovative new game for iPhone which melds addictive, retro-arcade gameplay with the social network giant, Twitter – allowing you to be socially unsocial in your downtime.
Created by London-based independent game developers, Wicked Little Games, Social Break is already making headlines with the tech savvy, TheNextWeb reporting that the game “doesn’t stop being fun” and commenting that “this is the perfect app to play during any of your idle time”.
The magic of Social Break is the star-decorated Twitter blocks which, when hit, cause a recent tweet from your timeline to appear. The gameplay is reminiscent of the arcade classic, Breakout, and will keep you on your toes with a wide variety of positive and negative powerups – including double points, bigger paddle and reverse controls. There are also options to tweak the number of tweets shown and for how long, to suit your social reading habits.
iOS5-powered Game Center & Twitter integration means it is easy to compete with your friends or followers around the world.
Social Break is a brand new way of interacting with your Twitter timeline and is undoubtably the most fun. Now you will no longer have to make the tough coffee-break choice: play a game or be social?
Social Break is now available on the App Store. Social Break Lite is FREE on the App Store right now.
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The collection of tools available to Apple-product developers has gone from strength to strength. With the relatively recent release of iOS5, Apple went even further towards making its platforms easy to build for. It is now PowerPoint-levels of easy to make a simple app and this can be expanded on with the use of fantastic community created tools. Here are some that I’ve found useful.
Following on from my previous list of HTML/JS game engines, I was informed about Construct 2 – a new visual HTML5 game development program for Windows, developed by London start-up Scirra.
In the age of multiple platforms and smartphones there is one definite feature which is supported by all – a browser. Running with this idea is the latest innovation in browser gaming – the gaming engine.
Considering you’re reading a blog, I’ll just go right ahead and assume you’ve heard of Google+ and all of its “facebook killer” gubbins. It seems, initially at least, that the service has hit the ground running and Google are already planning on increasing its presence across all its services, such as Google Mail. But what has the search-giant offered the developers, in order to create third-party apps and services?
The latest addition to my ever growing list of projects on Github is Blankit – a jQuery plugin for adding target=”_blank” to any matching elements. This was done to avoid the issue of creating a long, content heavy, page and having to go through and manually add target=”_blank” to each a element. This plugin was also contributed to by Seb Pollard, the technical ninja that he is.
Check it out: on github or try out the demo.
Over the past few years I’ve had the good fortune to work with a wide range of projects, from small single person business blogs to multinational systems. Interestingly, a common factor through all these projects has been “Can it be done quicker in WordPress?”.
In Expression Engine, global variables can be used at template level for many uses. In one of my latest projects, I needed to pass through a specific global variable, but instead of placing the tag in the template I needed to put it directly into my channel entry. Unfortunately, EE2.0 does not natively support this feature.
In a recent exchange with @britishgaming on twitter, @spotify semi-announced that they were working on an iPad version of Spotify.
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