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Slide To Play launched on September 1st, 2008, after a month-plus of frenzied labor and more than a few extremely late nights.
Parents inevitably put a lot of themselves into their children, and although they may have more specific goals in mind, the overriding hope is to see them survive... grow tall... and flourish.
Let me say that we all are very proud parents today. STP has bloomed from a tiny, unknown seed of a blog into full adulthood.
And we have our winners! The following folks on Twitter have just won a game from Chillingo or Clickgamer for coming up with some very clever company names.
We have our winners! First place, a copy of Spy Bot Chronicles, goes to @SquirtReynolds for the following tweet:
I'd be designed to approve Apps for Apple at a pace that wasn't so much like a 3-legged turtle on heroin. http://bit.ly/OGNNr
Click ahead to see our second and third place tweets.
A new team is at the helm of Namco Networks' iPhone efforts, spearheaded by Jonathan Kromrey--formerly of Apple's very own games group, and leader of the Texas Hold 'Em project back in the day. Kromrey has promised to overhaul Namco's iPhone strategy, which has been characterized to this point by "Remixed" versions of its arcade classics.
After a day spent playing Pac-Man Remix, we're good and ready for Kromrey to work his magic. Pac-Man's latest iPhone outing is fun, but it's also plagued by minor quality issues and runs out of content in under two hours.
Congrats to our winners, who dropped some real 140-character bombs on us:
@luis1o: Year 2880: Asteroid (29075) 1950 DA will hit us w/prob.=1:300, pretty crazy! Always been an astronomy fan.
@GkCHN: 1338 is my favorite. Because it's higher up then "1337".
@contester: 0110 - Peace...in binary (I learned to count binary on my hands)
Groovy. Great job, guys, and thanks to everyone who submitted an answer--we got a lot of good ones! We'll have another Twitter contest tomorrow, too, so hope springs eternal.
We've seen a spate of high-profile game announcements over the last 48 hours that merit attention. Bigtime publisher Gameloft is building an iPhone-sized football field for NFL 2010, as well as taking aim at the First-Person Shooter genre with Modern Combat: Sandstorm.
Taito, fresh off the huge triumph of Space Invaders Infinity Gene, announced that classic arcade fave Puzzle Bobble is on the way as well.
She's BAAAAAA-ACK! Jill Evans, pastry prodigy and plucky heroine of the Cake Mania series, is returning to the iPhone for Cake Mania Celebrity Chef. We got our hands floured up with a near-final build of the game at Casual Connect.
Another Saturday, another podcast! This time, the STP crew is talking noise about Resident Evil 4, Drop7, and Space Invaders Infinity Gene, among other games. There's also a spirited discussion about July's Game of the Month award, and an inquiry into piracy on the App Store. Good times!
What hath Toy Bot wrought?! The popular series of iPhone platformers officially wrapped with the release of Toy Bot 3 last year, but we had a feeling we hadn't heard the last of him... and we were right. Kind of.
Last week, we sat down with developer IUGO at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle to take a look at Spy Bot Chronicles, an upcoming Toy Bot spin-off that's looking very promising in its unfinished state.
We've got two fresh podcasts up, piping hot from the processor and ready for your consumption! In Slide To Podcast #9, we chat about Gangstar: West Coast Hustle, my trip to lovely Seattle for the Casual Connect conference, and some of our latest games, like I Dig It and
STP has partnered with hot new social network thisMoment to sponsor the site's new iPhone hub.
tM is built around timelines and rich media, making it somewhat different than existing social networks. If you like taking and sharing pictures, scrapbooking, putting your life in some kind of perspective, and/or preserving your memories in digital form as a hedge against dementia, it's well worth checking out! While you're at it, check out STP's tM page.
Archon has received two quick updates, standing now at version 1.2. The developer's made numerous fixes and improvements, notably to the enemy AI, which we felt was too weak the first time around.
The new "Insane" difficulty level is just that, especially when it comes to the combat portion of the game--the enemies with ranged attacks can now nail you all the way across the screen, for instance. Plus, the AI is much more canny in general, so it won't be blundering into obvious traps as often.
Slide To Podcast #8: Inside the Glu Factory is hot off the digital presses over on iTunes.
I was out of town for this one, but Andrew, Jer, and Phil didn't even miss me! Topics include STP's new features, games like Ricky and Enviro-Bear, previews from Glu's iPhone Games Day, and the correct pronunciation of Phil's last name.
We've learned from Aussie developer Firemint that Real Racing's second update has rolled out to the App Store.
The latest version packs such tune-ups as a new 10-track soundtrack (or the ability to make your own via iTunes, for 3.0 users), a jump from two-player to six-player WiFi multiplayer races, and an additional 'Exotic' class of cars to race. Read on for more details!
High Speed Chase drives you straight onto the freeway in a red sports car, guns a-blazing. It's a heady dose of instant action, making for one of the better arcade microgames we've played recently.
Shooting gallery games, zombie games, and zombie shooting gallery games are all App Store staples. So why the heck should yet another zombie blaster attract our attention?
Because Studio Radiolares, the guys behind the Rez-like shooter Radio Flare, have actually found a way to put a unique spin on a majorly cliched game type. How'd they do it? Well... have you ever heard of El Dia de los Muertos?
Yeah, yeah, we know: we're late with the podcast. Last week's episode spent several additional days in processing--we actually had to type in all those 1s and 0s by hand. On the plus side, all this extra work has resulted in one of our best episodes yet... we think.
And we have our code-winners, folks! Congrats to @Clementinebyob for winning Doom Resurrection. @gogoroflcopter scores Aqua Moto Racing, and @Trippymann takes down the Blocks2 code.
Thanks to all for helping us celebrate our Twitter milestone! There will be more codes where those came from, and soon...
My name's Steve Palley, and I'm the Bossman here at STP. The Big Kahuna. El Jefe Maximo. I don't take orders, I give em, and that's just the way I like it. It's the natural order of things.
But you know what? My fellow bosses and I don't feel real safe right now. We'll be living in fear until the party responsible for Blend the Boss--a sick individual who goes by the name Joe Cartoon--is hunted down and locked away forever.
Star Hogs is part loving homage to the classic franchise Worms, part insanely technical space opera, and entirely awesome.
IUGO nailed the artillery gameplay, and then packed the game full of weapons, upgrades, features, and play modes--resulting in something that turn-based strategy lovers can really sink their teeth into.
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