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Alto's Adventure
''Alto's Adventure'' is a 2015 endless runner snowboarding video game developed by Team Alto and published by Snowman (iOS) and Noodlecake Studios (Android). The player-character automatically moves to the right of the screen through procedurally generated landscapes. The player taps the screen to jump and perform tricks (backflips), and works towards goals, competitive high scores, and upgrades. Snowman, a Toronto-based, three-person indie development team, previously worked on productivity apps before ''Alto's Adventure''. The game was made to emulate the ethereal atmosphere of snowboarding, and was inspired by ''Ski Safari'' (2012), ''Tiny Wings'' (2012), ''Jetpack Joyride'' (2011), ''Journey'' (2012), '' Monument Valley'' (2014), ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2'' (2000), and ''Windosill'' (2009). The game was released on February 19, 2015, initially for iOS devices. In September that year, Snowman announced that ''Alto's Adventure'' would launch on Android and Kindle Fire. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snowman (company)
Snowman (also known as Built By Snowman) is an independent video game developer and publisher best known for ''Alto's Adventure'' (2015). The three-person, Toronto-based team previously worked on productivity apps before starting work on the game in 2012. In the snowboarding endless runner game, the player taps the touchscreen to make the on-screen character jump and perform tricks through procedurally generated landscapes. In March 2016, Snowman announced ''Where Cards Fall'', a collaboration designer Sam Rosenthal and his game studio The Game Band. Snowman will also publish ''DISTANT'', a game created by the two-person team at Slingshot & Satchel. The game is confirmed for release on Windows, Mac, Apple TV An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ..., and home consoles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Score
In games, score refers to an abstract quantity associated with a player or team. Score is usually measured in the abstract unit of points (except in game shows, where scores often are instead measured in units of currency), and events in the game can raise or lower the score of different parties. Most games with score use it as a quantitative indicator of success in the game, and in competitive games, a goal is often made of attaining a better score than one's opponents in order to win. Video games In video games that feature scoring, points are usually an optional, side component of gaming. Players may achieve points through normal gameplay, but their score will often not have an immediate relevance to the game itself. Instead, playing to beat a "high score" set by the game program, another player or oneself becomes an extra challenge, adding replay value. In modern gaming, the presence of a score is not as ubiquitous as it was in the past. During the era of arcade games, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto's Odyssey
''Alto's Odyssey'' is an endless runner and Snowboarding video game, sandboarding video game developed by Team Alto and published by Snowman (company), Snowman (iOS) and Noodlecake Studios (Android). The player controls Alto as he explores the endless desert across different biomes, each with unique traversal mechanics and challenges. Developed over a year and a half, it was released in 2018 for iOS and Android (operating system), Android. It is the sequel to ''Alto's Adventure'' (2015). Gameplay ''Alto's Odyssey'' keeps the same basic gameplay of its predecessor, ''Alto's Adventure''. The player chooses between a cast of characters, each with different characteristics ranging from a higher jump to the ability to speed through rocks. At its core the game remains a side-scrolling endless runner, in which the player character now Sandboarding, sandboards through a desert setting, instead of snowboarding as in the original game. The player can jump by tapping the screen and do tric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
