App-Store Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Remote Pallette lets you paint on your iPad with colors from your iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Oct 14th, 2010)

The story a while back about connecting an iPhone to an iPad for a game of darts was pretty interesting, and here's another one in that vein: a new app called Remote Palette is universal for both devices, and will let you "paint" on the iPad, while controlling the colors used with the iPhone. "Dip" ...

TUAW's Daily App: Piczle Lines

by Mike Schramm (Aug 24th, 2010)

Piczle Lines is pretty much the perfect iPhone game. It's a quick, pick-up and play puzzle affair, with a Japanese puzzle style that is easy to learn but gets twistier and tougher as it goes along. It's well-polished, with a cute story mode and extra puzzle packs to play and buy as you go along. And ...

TUAW's Daily App: Chuck Gnome

by Mike Schramm (Aug 5th, 2010)

At first glance, I thought Chuck Gnome was kind of gimmicky -- haven't we had enough of doodles and birds and cute little characters? But it is a fun little arcade game (I would say try the lite version before you jump in for the full US$1.99). The game has you slingshotting a gnome at various ...

Disney acquires social game firm Playdom

by Mike Schramm (Jul 28th, 2010)

Stick with me on this one -- it's not strictly Apple-related, but I think it will have a big effect on the App Store in the future. Last week at Comic-Con, I saw the head of Disney's mobile gaming division, and I had to congratulate him; the company's Toy Story 3 app nabbed over 1.7 million ...

Chopper 2 out now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 27th, 2010)

We've mentioned Chopper 2 a couple of times during development, once to show off the TV out function built into the game, and again when we met up with creator David Frampton at WWDC. Now, development has finally finished, and he's released the game out on the App Store. You can pick it up for a ...

TUAW's Daily App: Expenditure

by Mike Schramm (Jul 26th, 2010)

Expenditure is another great-looking app found via the excellent Well-Placed Pixels blog. It's an expense tracker -- you can add transactions into the app with just a few taps (and even attach a photo, note, or category to each debit or credit), and then browse your collected budget. Obviously, ...

TUAW's Daily App: Qrank

by Mike Schramm (Jul 16th, 2010)

Qrank is the kind of game that I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing more of in the near future; it's a social quiz game that is fully powered by a connection to Facebook, Twitter, and its own in-game friend service. It's a free download off the App Store, and once you create an account (and connect it to ...

TUAW's Daily App: Grokion

by Mike Schramm (Jul 12th, 2010)

Grokion came out a little over a month ago, but it's worth checking out if you haven't seen it yet. The game provides an interesting mix of Mega Man-esque 2D platforming action and Metroid-style exploration, and while Grokion doesn't quite live up to the polish of either of those games, it's an ...

Appsgiving Day is this Saturday, July 10th

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2010)

I like this idea -- the folks behind a new under-development app called iWishApp (that's designed to create a wishlist of iPhone apps) have decided to declare this Saturday, July 10th, as "Appsgiving Day." Basically, you go into iTunes on Saturday, the anniversary of the App Store's debut, and ...

Pair of App Store studies show Apple is the devs' choice, for now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 5th, 2010)

I wouldn't have called July 4th weekend as a great time for releasing studies about in-depth App Store information, but it was certainly that, as quite a few studies came to light this weekend about how the Android and the Apple App Stores compare. First up, App Store HQ has released some ...

Interview with Doodle Jump's Igor Pusenjak, part 2

by Mike Schramm (Jun 23rd, 2010)

In part one of our interview with Lima Sky's Igor Pusenjak, we talked about how his Doodle Jump game became so successful, and how other game designers might be able to replicate its success. In this part, however, we get a little more concrete -- Pusenjak discusses current and future updates to ...

Interview with Doodle Jump's Igor Pusenjak, part 1

by Mike Schramm (Jun 23rd, 2010)

There are a lot of successful apps in the App Store, but perhaps there are none more successful than Doodle Jump. Igor Pusenjak and his brother have propelled their simple game about a doodle flinging himself into the sky, platform by platform, all the way up into the top of the App Store charts. ...

TUAW's Daily App: Space Invaders Business Cards

by Mike Schramm (Jun 21st, 2010)

The Taito Corporation is the Japanese developer that owns the Space Invaders franchise, and they have done something pretty crazy with the App Store. They've released a series of completely free, Space Invaders-branded apps, most of which have nothing to do with the game at all. There's the Space ...

WWDC 2010: Mighty Mighty Good Games

by Mike Schramm (Jun 14th, 2010)

Not all of the developers on the App Store are starting up gigantic companies or breaking new indie ground. A large number of them, like Darren Sillett and his wife Samantha of Mighty Mighty Good Games, are just experienced programmers who choose an idea and stick with it, iterating and testing to ...

AdMob CEO comments on being thrown out of the App Store

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 9th, 2010)

Big surprise here, right? AdMob, freshly picked for purchase by Google (cue dramatic music) has been expelled from Valhalla, also known as the App Store, by a tiny change in the iOS developer agreement. Specifically, section 3.3.9 of the agreement, which precludes companies who do anything other ...