Our App Of The Day – Buddy Rush – The Second Wave!
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Team Sollmo, the game development group of app and game publisher Company100, Inc., today released a comprehensive update for the free-to-play, single-player RPG Buddy Rush. The update, which went live earlier today, includes a variety of gameplay and balancing updates, new content including characters, items and levels and iPad compatibility. With the addition of iPad compatibility, users can play Buddy Rush on iOS devices and Facebook for a cross-platform experience. Finally, Team Sollmo will be awarding players 10 free chips when they invite a Facebook Friend to the game.
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.
“Now that Buddy Rush is available for free on the iPad, players can have the same portable dungeon-crawling fun on a bigger screen,” said Jin Cheon Kim, CEO of Company100, Inc. “The team has been working since launch to add iPad compatibility and implement various updates and tweaks. This is only the first update and we’re committed to frequently improving the game with new, fun content
The update includes two chapters, each with a special area. Bootomb is a graveyard-themed area in which players will need to protect a town from ghosts, while Questern is an American Western-themed area featuring gunslinging Oblins. Along with the areas, powerful new characters are available and the level cap has been raised to 60. A batch of useful new items has been added, as well as a Fishing Mode that allows free fishing for items. Finally, Team Sollmo has lifted the restriction on Friend limits, allowing players access to all their Facebook Friends as possible allies.
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]