I recently installed this gem again. One of the best games for Android, and in my opinion the best game from Zeptolab, the authors of the original Cut the rope.
It takes ideas we’ve seen before and mixes them with new ones. All of this dressed with graphics, animations and sounds that are a joy, and levels designed wonderfully.
As I always say, a good game should have an interesting gameplay, responsive controls and well designed levels. Pudding Monsters has it all.
Ultraflow is a simple game where you throw a disc by a swipe of your finger. The goal is to make the disc bounce walls and objects until it gets to the target hole before running out of allowed hits.
Some levels are really easy and some you will complete by trial and error because there’s some randomness in this game.
You might finish the 100 levels in an hour or less but it’s worth trying. After all, it’s free and a nice time killer.
Classic shoot ’em up that surpised me because it’s wonderfully crafted and perfectly adapted to mobile devices.
Control is smooth and well thought; I especially like the option to drag from any point so the plane is not under your finger. Also, when you raise your finger the game slows down and that’s very useful when you need move your finger to other point, or to take your eyes off the screen for a couple of seconds, or just think of a strategy to accomplish your objectives.
Each level has 4 aditional objectives (medals) that you can achieve besides just finishing the level. If you get the four medals you can replay the level at a higher difficulty and get more medals (you need a number of medals to play advanced levels).
With the stars that enemies drop you can upgrade your weapons. Most weapons are infinite but 3 of them are limited: laser, shield and megabomb. Besides upgrading, you need to spend stars to buy units of those limited weapons, or collect them when an enemy drops one.
Although sometimes there are a lot of things on the screen it’s fairly easy to distinguish what you have to avoid (enemies and bullets) from what you can collect (stars and weapons).
All in all a perfect game you can play for free. Or pay a little to remove ads, which I did because Sky Force totally worths it.
This game is not new and I already wrote about it on my previous blog but I started to play it again recently and I thought it’s one of the best games for Android so I had to post it here too.
Where’s my water is very original and perfectly executed, with tons of fun levels and expansions as in-app purchases or separate games like Where’s my Perry or Where’s my Mickey.
Another of those simple and hard games. Looks like an indie game but comes from a well known company.
Reminds me of Whale Trail. It’s awesome how a one button game can have such a complex gameplay thanks to the mechanics of the airplane.
Second part of this fantastic little game, similar to Soosiz. Everything is simple and nice here: graphics, music, controls, gameplay, levels.
As they say, this is “more of the same” and that means it’s just as good as the first part. Some surprises but same fun.
After playing almost all classic levels I think they’re a bit easy, so I recommend you to play without using checkpoints (like in epic mode, where there aren’t).
This app lets you see information about your installed apps: concerns, ad networks, social SDKs and developer tools.
Concerns section tells you what the apps can do: access your contacts or accounts, cost money, etc.
If you enable the live detection mode it warns you every time you install a new app with any of the known concerns. Useful to be aware of what you install in your phone.
Chrome for Android is a wonderful browser with handy features like zooming with one finger (tap and drag up and down), auto zoom when clicking near two links, tab managing and more.
I miss some features like gestures. Try Dolphin browser for that.
Trello is a collaborative TO-DO service where you manage cards (tasks) in lists (todo, doing, done, etc) organised in different boards (for each project, for example).
It’s simple and powerful at the same time. And probably there’s where its beauty lies.
Recently the app has been improved. Now it’s nicer and more productive.
This is my favourite calendar. I especially like its widgets and how easy it is to add/edit events and see my different Google calendars (work, personal, etc) in custom colors.
Before using this calendar I used Jorte and it was also very good. Check it out too.
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