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| February 6th 2010 |
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| Chibi Knight |
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| The kingdom of Oukoku has been devastated by 3 wicked beasts.
Ancient legend tells of a small hero who will rise from obscurity to save the once-peaceful kingdom.
Play this fun action RPG with challenging and BIG bosses!
Play Chibi Knight!
Fan art by Jouste, see full size here.
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| November 25th 2009 |
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| Ear-regardless |
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| I felt inspired to make this t-shirt design. Vote on it and help it get printed!
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| November 5th, 2009 |
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| Book of Mormon Trivia: I-phone App |
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Sticky Buzz Software recently released a new BoM-themed I-phone app called BoM Trivia
They were nice enough to send me a free promotion code for their, normally, 99 cent app. so that I could review it. I'm always hoping to support independent Mormon developers so here's my review!
The determining factor of quality in any quiz game rests on its questions. Quiz developers have a fine balance to strike between writing questions that challenge the player (ie: No questions like: "Nephi said he would go and _______") and the opposing side of providing questions that no one could possibly recall from memory (ie: No questions like: "How many footnotes are on pg. 200 of the English Standard Works edition of the BoM?")
BoM Trivia does a good job of walking this fine line and provides an experience I found challenging, but not frustrating. I saw myself improving with multiple play-throughs and actually learning a few interesting tidbits about the Book of Mormon. Don't get me wrong, there are some pretty hard questions, but you never feel like any questions are impossible or the result of the creators stretching for content.
I don't know how many total questions are available in the quizes but the creators boast over 200 and "more on the way." This provides a good amount of re-play value, but ultimately, as with any quiz game, you will hit a wall where you know everything the game offers. I've been playing for 2 days now and still can't get 100% on all 3 game modes, so I'd guess you'll get a few good weeks of enjoyment for your 99 cents. Hopefully the authors live up to their claim of providing more well-thought-out questions! Currently there's a nice mix of scripture mastery, church history, and general trivia questions for variety on each play-through.
The best feature of the game is the final review screen which highlights the questions you missed in red and lets you click them to see both your wrong answer and the correct answer.
I did find a few bugs and some frustrations. The timed sections were a little too short. I'm a fast reader and I still ran out of time on a few play-throughs. Another frustration was that the screen scroll resets to the top of the list on the review page every time you click a question to review it so you have to scroll a lot to get back to the section of the page you were at before the question details popped up. One bug I encountered showed up after finishing a quiz, I clicked to go to the question review list and it showed up blank.
Despite these small annoyances I would say that the app is definitely worth the 99 cent price tag and 99 cents is a small price to pay to support the Mormon game development cause. Games are a great engaging way to show people what we believe and can be a great tool for other members of the flock.
BUY BOM TRIVIA NOW
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| October 27th 2009 |
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| Demolition City II |
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| October 17th 2009 |
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| The Cavern of The Evil Wizard |
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Have you ever seen the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks?
The kid in the movie, Josh Baskin, plays an old CGA PC text-adventure at the beginning. Ever since I first saw that movie in 1989 I've wanted to play that video game.
As it turns out, it's not a real game, just something they made up for the movie. Learning this, I just had to make it a reality.
Of course I had to fill in a lot of gaps. I call it "The Cavern of the Evil Wizard." I hope you enjoy it!
Play The Cavern of The Evil Wizard
Watch the original movie clip here [clip removed because of bandwidth overload]:
Here's a good analysis of the game's role in the movie:
"During the first scene I knew that the pc game he was playing to be a metaphor for the events yet to come. The ice melting puzzle is a metaphor for Josh being stuck in adolescence and how he wants to break free and become an adult. The Zoltar machine is his gateway into adulthood but is also a representation of childhood and innocence. In the end when Josh goes back to work on the puzzle and finds a way to melt the ice,he has learned that being a kid isn't so bad and the puzzle has been completed, therefore he can go back to being a child.
The basis behind the movie is the pc game. This game IS childhood. When he becomes an adult he leaves the game behind until his friend says something to him about being a kid. When he figures out the puzzle, he is going back to his childhood and realizing that its not over and he has soo much more time to enjoy childhood."
-Kayla Lukacs
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