With new ways to interface with electronics come new paradigms for how games are played. Therefore, it's an exciting time for both social and mobile gaming. Fabulapps (gotta love that name) takes elements of various social games such as the original Mafia Wars, and builds on an emerging genre that isn't quite perfect, but still a meaningful step in the right direction.
Have you ever wondered what Space Invaders would have been like if it was crossed with the The Little Prince's setting? Me, neither, but I couldn't shake the feeling that Tiny Planet's developers had been wondering about that exact scenario when they made the game. As it turns out, it's actually pretty fun.
All Baboo wants to do is relax on his planet and live in peace. Of course if he got to his wish, Tiny Planet wouldn't be much of a game. As a result, Fabulapps has him facing off against evil alien invaders in what looks like it's shaping up to be one of the quirkiest, most enjoyable little games this spring.
Kiko only had one job to do: guard the Last Totem of the Gods. It was a sweet gig, on a pretty island in the middle of the tropics, and the idol actually provided a protective field around the Kiko's home. Unfortunately, the cartoony cat creature let the item get stolen on his watch, which means it's now up to him to find and reassemble the missing pieces of the totem, ASAP. So begins Kiko: The Last Totem.
It may be a fairly new genre in the grand scheme of things, but that doesn't mean the iPhone hasn't seen dozens, if not hundreds, of line-drawing games. The runaway popularity of Flight Control (maybe that's "runway" popularity?) has inspired countless clones and play-alikes. It takes something really special to set a line-drawing game apart from the crowd nowadays, and CrossRoads does that with style.
Managing traffic can be an awfully big challenge for iPhone gamers. Whether we're navigating airplanes in Flight Control or directing taxi cabs in Fare City, line-drawing traffic games have been a portable treat for more than a year now. The latest of these, CrossRoads, is set to launch tomorrow. And the developers are promising some features that should really help this one break away from the pack.