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OpenFeint
OpenFeint was a social platform for mobile games for devices running on Android or iOS. It was developed by Aurora Feint, a company named after a video game by the same developers. The platform consisted of an SDK for use by games, allowing its various social networking features to be integrated into the game's functionality. OpenFeint was discontinued at the end of 2012. History OpenFeint was founded by Jason Citron, who later founded Discord. The first iteration of OpenFeint was launched on February 17, 2009. Version 2.0 was released in June 2009, and marked the first time that the platform was free for developers to integrate into their own applications. Harris Tsim joined to help with engineering. Version 2.1 was released on August 14, 2009, featuring "Social challenges", which allowed users to create tasks for themselves and their friends to attempt within games and notified users when new challenges were available. It also allowed users to add "Friends" and introduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discord (software)
Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers".The developer documentation refers to servers as "guilds". A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be accessed via invite links. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers. , the service has over 350 million registered users and over 150 million monthly active users. History The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for million, which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in 2012. Their first product was ''Fates Forever'', released in 2014, which Citron anticipate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloons Tower Defense
''Bloons Tower Defense'' (also known as ''Bloons TD'' or ''BTD'') is a series of tower defense games under the '' Bloons'' series created and produced by Ninja Kiwi. The game was initially developed as a browser game, built upon the (now unusable) Adobe Flash platform and released in mid 2007. Later games in the series expanded to support various mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DSi, Windows, Linux and MacOS. Games in the ''Bloons'' series older than ''Bloons TD 6'' are available through the Ninja Kiwi Archive on Steam. In the game, players attempt to prevent Bloons (the in-game name for balloons) from reaching the end of a set course by placing towers or road items along it that can pop the bloons in a variety of ways, typically by utilizing the power of monkeys. A handful of towers can stall the bloons and give the other towers more time to pop them by freezing and gluing the bloons. Money is gained by popping bloons, com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minigore
''Minigore'' is a 2009 survival horror action shooter game for iOS, developed by Mountain Sheep and published by Chillingo. On December 6, 2012, a sequel, ''Minigore 2'', was released on multiple platforms. Minigore was not updated for iOS 11 and was removed from the App Store until returning in 2019 under publisher GameClub. Gameplay Players control the main character, John Gore (voiced by Arin Hanson), in a world called Hardland. Gameplay revolves around Gore shooting creatures called "furries", who are trying to kill him. A cloverleaf will generate randomly after a certain number of furry kills. Collecting three clovers will turn Gore into a minotaur, granting him invincibility and allowing him to stomp on enemies. This lasts for about 15–20 seconds. The player has three lives and accumulates points for each furry killed. There are Game Center leaderboards and achievements. Update 3 added more playable characters, such as Enviro-Bear, Jerry Gore, Evan Hsu, Xmas Gore, Sensei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruit Ninja
''Fruit Ninja'' is a video game developed by Halfbrick originally released on April 21, 2010. In the game, the player must slice fruit that is thrown into the air by swiping the device's touch screen with their finger(s) or (in the case of the Xbox 360 version) the player's arms and hands, and must not slice bombs. It features multiple gameplay modes, leaderboards and multiplayer. The game was initially released for iPod Touch and iPhone devices before being expanded to other devices and platforms: July 12, 2010 for the iPad, September 17, 2010 for Android devices, December 22, 2010 for Windows Phone, and March 2011 for Samsung's Bada and Nokia's Symbian. Just prior to E3 2011 ''Fruit Ninja Kinect'', which utilizes the Kinect peripheral, was released for the Xbox 360 on August 10, 2011. ''Fruit Ninja'' was also released for Windows 8, on June 7, 2012. Versions with alternative names exist, such as ''Fruit Ninja HD'' on the iPad, ''Fruit Ninja THD'' for Nvidia Tegra 2–based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arriving
Arriving is a studio album released in 2004 by Chris Tomlin. The album has received RIAA "Platinum" status and peaked at No. 3 on '' Billboard''s Top Christian Albums chart. As of October 2008, "How Great Is Our God" is No. 1 and "Holy Is the Lord" is No. 7 on CCLI's Top 100 songs used in churches in the U.S. "Indescribable" is a cover of Laura Story, originally performed by Laura Story herself in 2003. Tomlin covered the song on this album. Likewise, "Your Grace Is Enough" is a cover of a Matt Maher song, though Tomlin rewrote the chorus compared to Maher's original version. Name Tomlin named this album after a passage he read in Isaiah 40 because he said he feels "as though we're like this landing strip in the desert for our great, incredible God to arrive on; a way for Him to come into people's lives." Track listing Personnel * Chris Tomlin – lead vocals, acoustic piano (11) * Ed Cash – backing vocals (1–6, 8, 10, 11), acoustic guitars (1–6, 8–11), e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jetpack Joyride
''Jetpack Joyride'' is a 2011 side-scrolling endless runner action video game created by Halfbrick Studios. It was released for iOS devices on the App Store on September 1, 2011 and has been ported to other systems. It was released online as a Flash version on May 11, 2012; on Android on September 28; on PlayStation Portable (via PlayStation Network, ported by Beatshapers) on November 20 in North America and November 21 in Europe; on BlackBerry PlayBook on December 13, 2012; on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita (via PlayStation Network, ported by Big Ant Studios) on December 21 in Europe and December 31 in North America; on BlackBerry 10 on March 6, 2013; and on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 on June 5. It was also released on PlayStation 4 on April 26, 2016. The game features the same protagonist from ''Age of Zombies'' and '' Monster Dash'', Barry Steakfries, who the player controls as he steals a jet pack from a top-secret laboratory, being a direct spin-off of the latter g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jet Car Stunts
''Jet Car Stunts'' is a 2014 video game developed by Grip Games and published by BitComposer Entertainment. It is a remake of the 2009 iOS game of the same name. Development The game was in development for almost a year. It was announced in April 2014 for multiple platforms including Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation platforms. Developers decided not to make a port of the mobile game but instead to produce a proper remake. Grip Games implemented many improvements, including redone graphics, some changes to the car lineup, physics updates, and additional modes. An Xbox One version was released on March 13, 2015. Gameplay The game has the same gameplay as the original ''Jet Car Stunts''. It is a hybrid between a racing and a platform game A platform game (often simplified as platformer and sometimes called a jump 'n' run game) is a sub-genre of action video games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment. Platform games are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hook Worlds
''Hook Worlds'', also known as ''Hook Swing Worlds'', is a platform game developed and published by Rocketcat Games for iOS. Released on December 16, 2010, ''Hook Worlds'' players levels using a grappling hook. The grappling hook was also present in ''Hook Worlds'' predecessors, '' Hook Champ'' and ''Super QuickHook''. ''Hook Worlds'' is divided into four worlds: "Curse of the Watcher", "Dungeon Gunner", "CyberGnome 202X", and "Hook Champ 1000". The player controls a different character in each world. The game was developed by a team of three: Kepa Auwae (design), Jeremy Orlando (programming), and Brandon Rhodes (art). ''Hook Worlds'' received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, having a Metascore of 83/100 on review aggregator Metacritic. Gameplay ''Hook Worlds'' is divided into four worlds, each of which has different gameplay gimmicks and different playing characters. In world one, players play as Theodore "Gramps" Hooker, who has to run away from an evil spirit aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GeoDefense Swarm
''geoDefense Swarm'' is a tower defense game by American studio Critical Thought Games available for the iOS and Windows Phone devices. Released on September 14, 2009, it is a sequel to '' geoDefense'', released by Critical Thought Games in 2008. Gameplay Over 7 defense tower types can be purchased by dragging and dropping them onto the map. Amount of dollars earned are dependent on which enemies are destroyed. Later levels include the new addition of vortex towers that can be linked to defense towers that increase damage. Stages The game has three difficulty settings with 10 levels each. Each level consists of several waves of enemies attempting to make it across each map. Maps vary across stages and include preset obstacles and pathways that can either impede or increase enemies speed. Downloadable content levels were released that include 5 new medium levels and 6 new hard levels. Production and updates The game has evolved from the original and is available on the iPhone a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GeoDefense
''geoDefense'' is a 2008 tower defense game created for iOS devices developed by American studio Critical Thought Games. A sequel, ''geoDefense Swarm'', was released on September 14, 2009, and was listed by ''Time'' magazine as one of the best games of the year. An Xbox Live enabled version was released for Windows Phone on June 8, 2011. As of the release of iPhone iOS 11, the game was removed from the App Store because of incompatibility. Gameplay geoDefense follows the gameplay structure of typical tower defense games. Enemies (called Creeps) move towards the player's lives and towers must be placed around the map to appropriately prevent and destroy their progress. Gameplay takes place on a vector display-like field with a preset path leading from where the Creeps enter the field to the player's lives. Levels are in the form of these paths with varying limits on tower prices, enemy occurrences and lives. Notes {{reflist References Destructoid review: geoDefense (iPhone)at D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy On Fire
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. Galaxies, averaging an estimated 100 million stars, range in size from dwarfs with less than a hundred million stars, to the largest galaxies known – supergiants with one hundred trillion stars, each orbiting its galaxy's center of mass. Most of the mass in a typical galaxy is in the form of dark matter, with only a few percent of that mass visible in the form of stars and nebulae. Supermassive black holes are a common feature at the centres of galaxies. Galaxies are categorized according to their visual morphology as elliptical, spiral, or irregular. Many are thought to have supermassive black holes at their centers. The Milky Way's central black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, has a mass four million times greater than the Sun. As of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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