Emoji Party by Tiny Hearts Limited is a charades game designed to be played anywhere on your iPhone or Apple TV. The game combines both charades and emojis to make a fun, innovative and yet tricky game which can be played with friends and family.

The game has a tutorial when you first start it showing the ins and outs of the application. To play Emoji Party you first pick from multiple categories such as Emotions, Animals, Entertainment and People. Other options such as Sports and Phrases can be purchased through an in app purchase.

Once you have picked a category one player must place the phone to their head. Once the game begins the other players must act out the emojis on the screen for the player who had the phone to guess. If they get it correct they flip the phone down, to pass the charade they flip it up.

They have ninety seconds to get as many right as possible. Others can then try to beat that time.

The games controls are simple and easy for everyone to learn. Although flipping the phone can be difficult, especially for the person with the phone to their head, it’s made easier by a sound prompt which alerts the user when they successfully flip the phone.

The use of emojis for charades is a great idea and is enjoyable whilst playing with friends. It does bring problems with some emojis very difficult to act out and it feels that on occasions some rounds have much harder charades than others. I would also have liked the addition of a counter which monitors the players score both in the corner of the screen (so others can keep track) and by saying your score after each flip of the phone.

Despite some slight adjustments needed Emoji Party is still a fun and innovative game that manages to use the iPhone’s display and gyroscope to its advantage to create an enjoyable experience for families and friends to enjoy.

Emoji Party – The Ultimate Party Game is available for $1.99 on the App Store. Continue reading this post ->

If you’re looking for a new take on the platformer genre, there’s a game out on the App Store now that lets you take on the niche as a dog. In Buster and the Crystal Bones, you’ll run and jump your way to save your master, a professor who has been kidnapped by an evil fiend. Your task, as Buster the Dog Adventurer, is to collect the Crystal Bones in order to save your best human friend.

Along the way, you’ll break open crates and barrels to find bones to collect, jump over ditches and from platform to platform in rivers, and try to avoid nasty creatures that will bite you. At the end of each level, you’ll find a crystal bone that will get you one step closer to saving your master.

Buster and the Crystal Bones is a fun game to play, but there are some idiosyncrasies that take some getting used to and make the game slightly annoying at first. If you forget to take your finger off the jump button, for example, Buster will continue leaping even when you don’t want him to. It makes for a good way to plunge straight into a crevasse when you don’t intend to do so. Continue reading this post ->

Quotes, like chocolates, have the power to lift spirits up in an instant. Surely, you have found yourself at one time or another scrolling through wall posts of your friends and pausing to ponder on a certain quote that they have shared. These little tidbits can surprisingly turn our moods around and some of these actually stay in our minds long-term and eventually shape our futures.

This same effect of positivity can be shared to more people to spread the good vibes. Pair this with good imagery, you can and you will change lives.

This was Ruby L. Taylor’s goal when she came up with the app, Smope (short for Smiles + Hope). Traumatized by a car accident which left her with a severe brain injury, she went into depression which even led her to think about taking her own life. But with the simple, yet wonderful, effects of photos and positive quotes, she had, once again, learned how it was to smile and to have a hope towards the future. Continue reading this post ->

Small time indie developer studio, Moon Kid, has announced a major free update to their hit game Satellina. The game now features 25 new levels, 6 new music tracks, new color palettes, and 4 new special modes. These 4 new game modes — Disco Mode, Ghost Mode, Deathless Mode, and Turbo Mode — introduce completely new gameplay for players who are already familiar with Satellina.

Originally released in January, Satellina is Moon Kid‘s debut iOS game and received lots of media attention. Come just a couple days ago, new and old players can download the expanded version of Satellina for no extra cost. Additionally, be sure to check out the trailer below that highlight’s some of the recent changes and content.

Satellina is available on the App Store for $1.99, while the game’s soundtrack can be purchased for any price here. Continue reading this post ->