Our App Of The Day – Dark Nebula – Episode Two – Free This Weekend
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Earlier this year, Dark Nebula – Episode two was ranked second in Metacritic’s list of the most highly rated applications in the App store that were released in 2010. The average score of each application was based on reviews from various different online sites and publications, and Dark Nebula – Episode two received an average rating of 93 of out 100.
The game is also featured in the prestigious App store “Hall of fame” which is a list that Apple has put together of the 50 best applications of all time – both paid and free.
This weekend the game will be completely free for everyone to download, and the price change is effective immediately. 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.
The team that made Dark Nebula are veterans in the games industry, and the game was designed by Anders Hejdenberg; the lead designer of many successful console and PC games including Battlefield 2: Modern Combat.
“When the first episode of Dark Nebula was made free for a weekend, we were the most downloaded game in more than 25 countries – including the US. That weekend alone, the game was downloaded by over a million people, and our hope is that as many people as possible will get to enjoy the game this time as well.” Anders Hejdenberg says.
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said.
Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London.
Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art.
Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK.
She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]