Filed under: Software, Freeware, Deals, iPhone, Holidays, iPod touch
On the first night of Christmas, my true love game to me - free game apps
The folks at Blacksmithgames have come up with a really nifty idea. They've created an Advent calendar, or in their words, an appventcalendar. Each day from now until Christmas, a new door will open showing an iPhone game app that you can get for free, but only for one day.
Being December 1st, the first door just opened and what's behind it is 33rd Division [iTunes Link] a line-drawing stealth game where the goal is to escort your troops while avoiding enemy patrols. 33rd Division is for any iPhone or iPod touch running OS 2.2.1 or later. Tomorrow its price will go back to US $0.99 and another door will be opened.
Blacksmithgames promises a mix of well known and undiscovered games to keep things interesting. So go on over and pick yourself up a free game. Then keep checking back for new surprises.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
adam said 1:18PM on 12-01-2009
looks like the idea of free stuff brought too many visitors for their servers to handle :(
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Jerm said 1:48PM on 12-01-2009
You can follow them on Twitter @blacksmithgames to find out the daily app as well. You don't have to do anything special, if you know the name of the free app, it's free all day on the iTunes store.
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Bensawsome said 3:05PM on 12-01-2009
It seems all this attention is too much for their servers to handle, right now I'm getting a 404 error on the site :(
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Bensawsome said 3:05PM on 12-01-2009
Meant to say 403 error lol
Johannes said 3:21PM on 12-01-2009
Sorry we are moving to a new server right now .... 100.000 Pageviews in 12 hours was too much for the old server
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kinto said 4:44PM on 12-01-2009
...or check freeappalert.com daily =)
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oshawapilot said 7:42PM on 12-01-2009
Bravo, love the idea - sorry for probably contributing to your server crash, I sent the link to a lot of friends as well. :-)
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JKT said 9:22PM on 12-01-2009
Does nobody have any comments on the free app itself? I tried it and found it mildly interesting. Not sure how much replay value it's going to have but it certainly wasted a few minutes on the first play.
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erichd said 1:43AM on 12-02-2009
If you're like me, and can get OCD about maxing scores and unlocking everything, you'll find good replay in this.
Different enough from any other line-drawing game to stand on its on, and made superb with the hand-drawn graphics, voice acting, and original soundtrack.
Aelver said 12:42AM on 12-02-2009
Is very similar in concept to Commandos on the PC (borderline plagiarized).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandos_%28series%29
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Johannes said 6:27AM on 12-02-2009
The site is working again after moving third time to a new server! Yheah! Next free game will be revealed as soon as its free in the Appstore
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Aelver said 9:38AM on 12-02-2009
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
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jax sedrin said 11:32AM on 12-02-2009
Looks like the free app for Dec. 2nd is TriDefense.
I got an the "this item is being modified" error when I tried to download it... so you might have to wait a little bit to get it.
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Blizaine said 12:48PM on 12-02-2009
I was getting the same thing earlier. Looks like it is working now.
adams1546 said 1:23AM on 12-08-2009
Seems interesting! Sharing is a virtue!
I found more free iPhone apps & free iPhone 3G apps here:
http://www.ifunia.com/iphone-column/free-iphone-apps.html
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