Our App Of The Day – RoboSockets – 02/22/11
As our App of Day, all our regular readers know the trailer for this app will feature on every page of our site for a whole day. Just scroll to the bottom of this page to take a look.
RoboSockets is a fascinating arcade-puzzle with a unique combination of tetris, pipes and match 3 mechanics, surrounded by elaborate and engaging story. Direct robots to connect to each other with their hands/sockets and create a chain of 5 or more robots. Each chain gives you energy needed to restore the planet’s functionality and revive once flourishing RoboCivilization. It’s as simple as genius and brings a breath of fresh air to the tried bejeweled-type games.
Apart from introducing brand new gameplay, RoboSockets boasts of classic for a quality title virtues: cheerful UI, elaborate story, intense graphics and a vast replayability potential. Next update promises to bring iPad compatibility, more game modes and more fun!
The game features:
– Highly addictive gameplay
– Challenging game modes (story mode, arcade, time attack)
– Memorable characters with exclusive anatomy
– Explorable facts of RoboCivilization
– Stunning graphics
– GameCenter support, achievements
– Facebook integration
This fantastic blend of some familiar gameplay elements shown from the brand new viewpoint debuts as iPhone app and costs $0.99/download
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
