Robots & Pencils Launches Catch The Princess
January 6th, 2012 |
We here at yycapps.com hope that everyone had a fantastic New Years and even better Holiday Season. The Calgary app community was rather quiet in December, but it’s looking like January 2012 is shaping up to be a whole different story. The rumor mill is a buzz with some very exciting launches in the next few weeks, and first up on the must see list is Robots & Pencils new app Catch The Princess.
Catch the Princess is an addictive and gorgeous new puzzler, where users are tasked with protecting a Princess through 60 levels of intense game play. The game is already garnishing some great buzz from the gurus at TouchArcade. And if that high profile review alone doesn’t wet your appetite, check out the 60 second intro video below to see why this is one of the most buzzed about apps to come out of Calgary in quite some time. read more
yycParking Aims to Alleviate One of Calgary’s Biggest Problems
October 4th, 2011 |
Calgarians have a wonderful love/hate relationship with parking in the city’s downtown core. We love to bitch and moan about how painful of a task it is and we really, really hate the entire process. Luckily for us we now have Random Type’s yycParking app to hopefully soften the blow of this horrendous task.
Following in the foot steps of Flipp’s Bikeyyc and Medium Rare’s Next Stop, yycParking in the next step in the evolution of custom Calgary-centric apps. Relying on the Calgary Parking Authorities open source data RSS feeds, yycParking allows users to see real time available parking spots at a variety of high traffic downtown lots. read more
Popping Balloon’s With Bursty
September 25th, 2011 |
Popping balloons has to be one of life’s greatest stress relievers.
It easily ranks up there with popping a giant sheet of packing bubbles as one of the world’s greatest ways to release the pent up frustration of daily life. But now with Yellow Fox Studios’s first iPhone Game release Bursty, users get take this joy with them on their daily commute.
In this simple, yet elegant game, users are tasked with the job of bursting through an army of floating multi-coloured balloons. User start of the game by selecting from a variety of difficulties, either easy, medium of hard. read more
Taking Flight with Jet Set Go!
August 28th, 2011 |
If you’re like me, you probably thought the travel industry was a bit of a bore. In particular, being a travel agent can’t be that exciting. But with Big Stack Studio’s latest release Jet Set Go!, your preconceived notions of this somewhat mundane occupation are about to be shattered.
As mentioned, Jet Set Go! Is the latest release from local power house developers Big Stack Studios. The game leverages the incredibly popular time management formula of 2010′s smash hit Sally Spa. (The studio also contains many of the creative minds behind that huge hit) But instead of a Spa, users are thrust into the role of an upstart travel agent. read more
Furious Tactics: Cats vs. Dogs vs. Mice
August 12th, 2011 |
Who would emerge as supreme rulers in a world fought over by cats, dogs and mice? If you answered anything other than ‘cats’ you’re simply incorrect. If logic escapes you and you disagree, the developers at BigStack Studios and Broken Kings welcome you to tip the scales in the direction of your favourite furry friend with their latest offering – Furious Tactics. 
BigStack Studios and Broken Kings, known for the ultra-addictive puzzler Sigma, ever popular Castle Conflicts and the nerd-management simulator Hottie Hookups, branch out to the world of tactical strategy with their latest game. You command a fearless army of cats, dogs or mice in an effort to destroy the base of your enemy. What sets this game apart from other tactical strategy games such as Starcraft (aside from the cast) is the moveable base; should the action become a little too heavy, you are able to maneuver the most important item in your fleet out of harms way. Mine resources, build your army and cleanse the land until only your chosen race remains (this is probably the only time (in your life?) you’ll get to do this in an appropriate manner). read more
A Summer of New Apps
August 4th, 2011 |
For many of us, the summer months are quite low-key. With the long evening sun and the temptation to get away from the computer, you would think that it would be a quiet time for the Calgary iPhone Development community. Well, it turns out that the summer months are some of the busiest months, with a slew of exciting new launches. Including the release of four popular iPhone apps in Jet Set Go!, Furious Tactics, Elusive Ninja and Infinity Control.
So to celebrate this bevy of new releases, we’ve finally added a slew of new apps to our ever growing list. Including:
- Jet Set Go! from Big Stack Studios
- Broken Kings’ Furious Tactics and an older game Skwerl
- Pix From My Phone
- Bulletproof Outlaws Elusive Ninja
- Renegade Citizen’s Infinite Control
- Infinibee’s Invincible Demon
- Surje Software Solutions’ CryptoQuip
- Code and Data Inc.’s Mortgage Plan
- There’s an App for That’s iBra Calculator, Surefire USA, Coaches Basketball Whiteboard
- and finally Times Table Quizzer
In addition, we have updated the local developers page with four new companies. We’re also going to be releasing a few new reviews over the next two weeks, so please stay tuned for that.
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