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Slotz Racer now in the App Store

by Mike Schramm Jan 18th 2009 at 9:00AM


Freeverse Games has released their latest iPhone title, Slotz Racer, and it looks like a good one (I've been having a good time lately with their bowling game as well). Despite the name, it's not another tilt-to-turn racer -- this one has you playing slot cars instead of real cars, those little cars and tracks that you got for a birthday once when you were a kid but have never actually had the patience to set up since. The game features a "unique" control system that even allows up to four people to play on one iPhone at a time, and the big draw here is a track editor -- for a 99 cent introductory price (headed up to $2.99 in 72 hours, we're told), you can assemble as many tracks as you like, and you don't even have to buy any those gigantic boxes from KB Toys.

Looks like fun. Freeverse is only publishing here -- the game is developed by a company named Strange Flavour and they've put a nice manual together, along with plenty of tips and tricks to try out. The game is available in the App Store right now for 99 cents, but as we said, the price is heading up to $3 soon (which is still cheap, really, but if you're interested in the game, you might as well save two bucks now). Maybe this is your big chance to finally live your old slot car racing dreams out virtually on your iPhone or iPod touch.

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glad

It's a great game and why it's not on the wii or ps3, I just don't know. Excellent gameplay so simple and I never had scalextric as a kid bit I have it now and only $0.99.

January 19 2009 at 5:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
PSM

I wish the reviews were a little more in depth (at least have tried the game!) but thanks for bringing up notices about the best new games (especially when they're on sale and time is of the essence!). With so many games coming out every day it's easy to lose track of what's good out there. I spent the buck and so far I like it a lot. I'm just as terrible at it as I was as a kid!

January 19 2009 at 1:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Bell

Excuse my ignorance but why does a developer need a publisher to get a game onto the app store?

January 18 2009 at 7:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Zwilnik

It actually benefits us both a lot. Apart from a bigger publicity presence that a larger publisher can provide, Freeverse also help us with testing, sourcing contracts and generally enabling our 2 man team to do a lot more than we'd normally be able to do on our own. In return, they get our English witticisms that mostly confuse them and an agile developer that can do all the crazy stuff :)

January 18 2009 at 8:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Erichd

Ok, so the TUAW doesn't know who Strange Flavour is?

You've never wasted hours trying to master AirBurst and Airburst Extreme?

That's a title that needs to get reborn on the iPhone/ iPod Touch!

January 18 2009 at 3:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Zwilnik

Once we've finished the XBLA version it'll be on the list ;)

January 18 2009 at 7:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jash Sayani

Why do you need slot racing when you have Asphalt4 and GTS ?!!?!

January 18 2009 at 2:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Rembert

Not only better, it's entirely different. You're warped back to your childhood's time in seconds. The game was covered in one of the TUAW MacWorld reports and I was waiting for it to be published - so I grabbed the 0.99$ copy immediately.
My kids already decided it's their #1 iPhone / iTouch game.

January 19 2009 at 3:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan Dickinson

"Freeverse is only publishing here -- the game is developed by a company named Strange Flavour"

Not to pile on, but you act like Strange Flavour is some sort of new entity, that hasn't made any games before.

Come on, TUAW, you can do better.

January 18 2009 at 10:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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tdowling

I bet that most people have never heard of Strange Flavour, though. For what it's worth, this is the first I've seen the name, and I'd consider myself pretty well-informed.

January 18 2009 at 2:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

So the TUAW writing team doesn't even bother to pay 99¢ for these games before writing these little puff pieces? Great...

January 18 2009 at 10:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Julius

I refrained myself a long time to say this but it looks like TUAW is turning into a "now in the App store" announcement site more and more. Where are your own original and genuine reports?

January 18 2009 at 10:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mason Sklut

I totally agree with on that. It's like......
http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/

January 18 2009 at 11:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

This is actually a reply to comment #3 from Mason... thanks for posting a link to my iPhone App Reviews site but I don't think I'm turning it into a "now in the App Store" announcement thing! Unless I misunderstood you...?

It's true that my Q&F (quick & free) reviews are on the short side but I'm really trying to keep the content quality high. I introduced Q&F to appeal to those who don't want to read 500 words and just want a quick overview of something free, but I'm still doing the full-length writeups.

Writing all those reviews myself started getting difficult so I recently brought on a small team of writers to help out, and so far they've been writing some pretty good stuff about apps that I'd never think to try.

Anyway, feedback is always welcome and thanks for the mention! And thanks to TUAW, I've always liked this site.

January 19 2009 at 6:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Galley

This is easily one of the best games in the App Store right now.

January 18 2009 at 10:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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