A Fresh iPhone & iPod Touch App each week.
Mr. Bounce
From Pixelate & Spaces of Play comes a thumbtwisting indie game wrapped in delicious 8 bit beats. Mr. Bounce is a new take on the classic Arkanoid-genre where you control a bar at the bottom of the screen, bouncing a ball to hit objects in the space above. Enter multitouch gestures and suddenly you’re controlling both the sidescroll of the bar, the height of the bounce and even the speed of the game. Underlying all this a beat thumbs away while you bust geometric shapes to add highnode bleeps. This all makes for a very musical experience in what is a very challenging but compelling game.
Canabalt
Canabalt is a beautifully simple yet thrilling game. Quick sessions have you spring across roofs, jump over obstacles while buildings are collapsing and doves are flying - all this with the tap of a single finger. Set in a luscious pixelart world to a score of pumping ambient electronica you compete to see who can run the farthest before falling to your death. This is a perfect combination of pacing, style and thrills that really flex the muscles of independant gaming and delivers elusive exciting gameplay wrapped in replayability.