'Trounce' - Now Available in the Apple App Store!

App-a-Day #5, Trounce, has been released in the Apple App store! Get your monster-squishing finger ready to save the town!

Direct link: Trounce in the App Store

'Tumblecaps' Has Been Released for Purchase!

App-a-Day #4, Tumblecaps, has been released in the Apple App Store! For only .99 cents, you can go purchase it right now on your iPod Touch or iPhone and enjoy a fast-paced game about bottle caps.

Check it out now at this Tumblecaps iTunes Link.

App-a-Day #8: Spot the Bug

Sit back with some peaceful music from renowned composer Matt Sayre and collect ladybugs! In this surprisingly calm matching game, the eighth game to come out of Dave Calabrese's App-a-Day Project, ladybugs with different numbers of spots crawl down the screen from the top to the bottom. Tap the ladybug to stop it in its tracks - now count the spots on its back, and tap that many other ladybugs with the same number of spots.

This simple game with its calming music and playful art is certain to surprise you with its engrossing gameplay and re-playability. Before you know it, you'll have been playing for 5 minutes, be at level 12, and have a score of 20 million.

Wait... #8? What happened to #7?
Well, let's say that I've learned you really cannot make a strategy game complete with micro-management within 24 hours. I did get a very long ways through production of it, and I kept saying it was ready for release because it was - however the more I played it, the more I kept feeling like it needed more statistics, more micro management control... just more 'stuff' to really make it a solid 'business sim' game. I'm planning to still finish it up during App-a-Day however and release it as the official #7 - it just won't be the 7th app actually submitted.

As for App #8, 'Spot the Bug', I am honored to be allowed to include music from the respected game soundtrack composer Matt Sayre. If you are working on games and need music, there is simply no one else to even consider going to - he's the best, without question! Take a moment to visit his home page and become more familiar with Matt Sayre and his awesome work: http://www.TheGameComposer.com

Review Codes Available

Like what you see here with App-a-Day? If you want to review the games, the project or just talk about it on a blog, site, radio show, TV show or whatever else that has some followers - let me know, tell me what the target is, and I'll set you up with review codes for all 30 apps as they are released.

Simple as that!

Send me an email at BahamutZaero (@) Gmail (.) Com

(Sorry the for email chop-up... gotta fight those email sniffing robots somehow!)

App-a-Day Slowing Down for a Little Bit...

Well, looks like I need to slow down the App-a-Day project a little bit, simply for the reason that I've been able to score some contract work and a potential job, and need to make sure those all go through smoothly.

I've got no intentions at all however of stopping 'App-a-Day'... I just won't be trying to finish and release an app in a single day. Instead, I'm going to create an app over a course of a day or two (or three), but still never take more than a total of 4 - 5 hours producing it over that time. This way I can still get App-a-Day completed with all 30 apps under something close to the original guidelines, and make sure I can do things like eat and pay my rent. ;)

Here is a preview of what's to come....

App-a-Day 7: Burgerwar
App-a-Day 8: (Unnamed Ladybug Themed Puzzle Game)
App-a-Day 9: (Unnamed Tower Defense Game with Farm Animals)
App-a-Day 10: Brew (Name might change.... a unique "solve the problem" game involving coffee)

Moving forward as always - here we go!

Tic-Tac-Bacon and Pegburner in the Apple App Store!

In what must be legendary, epic speed for App store release (as I've always heard it takes over a month for release), both Pegburner AND Tic-Tac-Bacon were released today in the Apple App Store!!

Check them out at these direct iTunes links:

Tic-Tac-Bacon
Pegburner

Pick up one, pick up both - you're sure to love them! Tic-Tac-Bacon is classic Tic-Tac-Toe against a computer using Bacon and Fried Eggs, and Pegburner is a fast and frantic game where you have to tap the numbered pegs in order before the fireball and turn them to dust.

Check them out!

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App-a-Day #7: Burgerwar

Ready for the tastiest war ever? Prepare to duke it out in a town where fast food joints were illegal - until a recent vote overturning the legislation. Now all the big companies want to be 'the' burger chain in town! Choose a chain and do some micro-management to take over and make your company the top. Purchase the competitors shops and turn them into yours, and dream of the day where every street corner has your chain!

And there we have it. I made a small strategy game with micro-management as an 'App-a-Day'. First off, you may be wondering what happened to Saturday? More job interviews! Yay for me, bad for App-a-Day, as the ones I've been doing are very long - and apparently also on weekends. I'm happy, though, as I think my search for a job is nearing a conclusion.

Anyway! App-a-Day #7 is ready for the app store. I'm exhausted, so I will post images and more data tomorrow. Until then - get ready for Burgerwar!!