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Daily iPhone App: Earn to Die lets you upgrade cars, kill zombies

by Mike Schramm (Jan 21st, 2013)

I'm spending the first part of this week in France working on judging for the International Mobile Gaming Awards, along with a whole crew of other app writers and professionals. As usually happens whenever a bunch of app fans get together, we've been talking about our favorite games, and even ...

Daily iPad App: Puzzle Craft is puzzle farming bliss

by Mike Schramm (Aug 20th, 2012)

I came to a realization a little while ago: I love grindy games. I really enjoy games with a certain amount of repetition to them, games where I slowly but steadily build up resources and a character (or an empire) while performing somewhat mindless but infinitely amusing tasks. Puzzle Craft ...

TUAW's Daily App: Max Adventure

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2010)

Max Adventure has been quite a while in the making. I first saw it at 360iDev earlier this year, and then again at WWDC, where we met up with the husband-and-wife team of Imangi Studios to talk about how it was coming along during development. You may have also seen this video of a level being made ...