The Pluralsight 30 day subscription give away started yesterday! Thursday’s winner is Igor Ralic, who posted a comment about the Photo Light Windows Phone application. Once the give-away ends, I am going to share information about all the applications, which have been shared by readers.
Today you get another opportunity to promote your favorite Windows Phone applications in a certain category and motivate the applications’ developers with some praise, feedback or constructive criticism. I realized that many developers prefer to promote their own applications and that is surely up to you. In this give-away there is no rule, which prevents one from self-promotion.
Application Category for Friday: Games
What is your favorite game (app) on the Windows Phone?
To participate in today’s give away; you only need to briefly write about the Windows Phone game, which you believe is so addictive that it prevents you from putting down your phone! Try to add a few key features of the game and what makes it so much fun to play. Do not forget to add a link to the game/application for other readers to discover this must-have game on Windows Phone. If it is visually stunning, if it calls for mind bending tactics, if it comes with super fast animations etc., let all its cool features be known. You can share your feedback as a comment on this blog post until 8 PM PST today.
Today’s lucky number: 7
Just like yesterday, around 8 PM PST all comments will be approved, which have been posted for today’s blog post. Friday’s Pluralsight 30 day subscription card will go to comment #7!
To kill some time while waiting in a line, to distract our busy minds or sometimes just because we can’t stop, we all play various games already available on or downloaded to our mobile phones. Let’s take a few minutes and share with the rest of us the one Windows Phone game, which you believe totally rocks, so that we don’t miss out on the fun!
OK, I am going to nominate my first ever Windows Phone game, one for the more discerning (read “older”) reader who might remember playing “Shove Halfpenny” in the pubs around Great Britain in the 1980′s. Not only was it my first game but it was also my first use of a physics engine, and I was very pleased with the result!
Here it is: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/43ce15dc-86d5-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
In all seriousness, my favorite game on WP7 is Solitaire. The controls are easy, it’s fast, and pretty darn addictive. My main focus of the day is to make sure my phone is charged for the train ride home so I can play.
James
My favourite at the moment is Paradox Exit http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/26392fd5-0a63-45c7-8e55-e6e1a247e44b
Auto-generated levels, destructible environment, a bit minecraft-like, it’s very easy to get addicted
While there are a lot of games I like (including the one I personally wrote for Windows Phone which I will restrain myself from guerrilla marketing by claiming it’s my favorite here) I want to draw some attention to Physi Bricks.
Not only is Physi Bricks awesome and FREE but the author regularly adds more levels to it. I’m always excited to see a new update because they always seem to come with more levels. Not only that but the newest update added a level creator and a community levels feature so now there should be virtually no end to new levels.
All that said, I should probably say what the game is. It’s a physics based puzzler in the same category as Angry Birds or Pandas vs. Ninjas (two of my other favorites).
On screen you will find stacks of bricks and you shoot balls at them to try to knock them off the screen. You have different kinds of balls you can shoot from small to large steel through exploding ones or even ones that reverse gravity for everything they touch. Some of the interesting twists to make this better than every other physics puzzler:
* Each ball you shoot costs you points. Since you need a certain number of points to win the level you have to decide which ball(s) to use to win. You can spend more and use one that detonates but then you have to get more bricks off the screen to make up for it.
* There are green and red bricks, if you knock red bricks off the screen they subtract from your points. Some levels make it very hard to get to the green bricks without hitting the red ones.
Really worth trying out. You can get it here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/fc6e3dba-ff05-46aa-93f9-41fc96ecb719