What I want in Angry Birds Star Wars

It’s no secret that Star Wars fans will finally be presented today with a Star Wars game worthy of the license. Today Rovio plans to launch Angry Birds Star Wars, and from the looks of the image below from USA Today’s article “Star Wars invades Angry Birds” the game is going to be legendary..

So what would I want in the game for it to make me forget the prequels? well here is a short list.

1. Darth Vader can use the force to throw meteors in your path
2. Luke can use the light saber while in bird flight… to knock out obstacles
3. Millenium Falcon can be used like an Angry birds… and it teleports
4. Asteriod fields
5. Princess Leia.. nuff said

Let’s see how many of these Rovio gets right!

Game Design – Finding stock and free sound effects and music for casual games

Last week I was trying to find stock music and sound effects for my physics puzzler games for the iOS platform. The game is in its final stages and we needed some kick ass sounds for it. Trying to find good free casual game music and sound effects is a difficult task. Here are some of the sites and tools that I found really helpful to create casual game sound effects and music.

Stock casual game SFX and BGM sites

• Soundsnap.com
• Soundrangers.com

Free casual game SFX and BGM sites

• Opengameart.org
• freesound.org

Tools for creating casual game SFX and BGM

• Garageband for iPad
• Mixcraft for PC and Linux
• Wavepad Sound Editor

Offshored comics – stand and deliver

Don’t you just hate it when people do this at work. It’s like they dump all etiquettes before coming to work.

Created using Create a Comic for iPhone (www.tiltedchair.com)

Santa uses facebook – comic

Looks like this year not only did Santa use Facebook to figure out who’s been good and bad but also delivered some presents before time

IT Underworld cartoon – Santa takes to the cloud

IT Underworld
just published their new comic. I think with all the buzz around
SaaS, this is not too far fetched. Check out
more comics at http://www.itworld.com/blog/phil-johnson

Angry birds finally lands on Nokia Symbian

Finally nokia owners can play angry birds, or can they? It’s out for the nokia N8 and other symbian^3 devices Angry Birds (@RovioMobile) 12/17/10 9:36 PM In case you didn’t notice, Angry Birds Seasons is now available for Nokia Symbian^3 phones in Ovi Store! http://fb.me/N7hSrqef

Apple iOS AppStore stats in a single view

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Did you ever wonder what kinds of apps are most popular in the Apple AppStore? How much does an average game cost? Is 3-star rating below average? Well App of the Day have found your answers. See their summary of the AppStore in the image below