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NinJump Gets iPad Version and a Planned Content Expansion

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Backflip Studios are going all-out in unleashing their lineup of freemium games onto the App Store. After launching Buganoids on both the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad last week, Backflip Studios is now going through their back catalog of games released this summer, with NinJump now getting an iPad version, appropriately called NinJump HD.

NinJump HD is the same game as the iPhone/iPod touch version, just now with graphics and gameplay optimized for the iPad. The game really does look much more detailed and crisp than the original version did scaled up to 2X. As well, for players who may have been playing on their iPad and may occasionally have missed a jump due to tapping on the blank part of the screen in 2X scaling, you won’t have this problem any more. While it may have been coincidental, I set a new high score the first time I played the iPad version.

Speaking of high scores, the game is similar to Buganoids where high scores are synchronized between the two versions, so you can track your high scores on whatever device you play on, as long as you use the same OpenFeint login. All the OpenFeint leaderboards are the same as the iPhone version, as evidenced by the over one million entries present before the iPad version was publicly available.

NinJump HD is currently free (with the possibility of being a paid download in the future, according to Backflip Studios), with $0.99 in-app purchase to remove ads, similar to other Backflip Studios freemium games. However, the game may go to paid at some point according to CEO Julian Farrior, so downloading it now is recommended. The gameplay is the same great addictive ninja jumping action that the iPhone version presented, just now in iPad form.

Backflip were also kind enough to drop some details on the future of NinJump. First, Android will be getting a free version of NinJump later this year. As well, a new paid version of NinJump will be released, expanding on what the original free version presented, featuring “new levels, enemies and other content, with plans to add frequent updates on a regular basis” according to Backflip Studios CEO Julian Farrior. NinJump fans could have a lot to look forward to in the coming months for their ninja jumping game of choice.

FREE!

NinJump – HD

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-09-21 :: Category: Games / Adventure

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Favorite Four – High Score Obtainers

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I can see the confused look on your face already, wondering what the heck a “high score obtainer” is. These are the games that have only one goal, and that is for you to obtain a high score. Sure, most games have some sort of score system built in, but there are only a select few that make you click on that darn OpenFeint button every time you lose. Here are my four favorites.

Ninjump
To me, the best high score games are the ones that keep things the most simple. Ninjump really doesn’t have a whole lot going on, just a ninja with an insatiable desire to go up. The controls are as simple as possible, with just a tap sending you to the opposite wall, which is hopefully not occupied by a rival ninja, a building overhang, or a swooping bird. Anything in the middle is gravy though (or maybe chop suey would work better), because your ninja instantly kills anything he touches while in mid air. What’s great though is that the game provides a simple twist to the genre, giving you a crazy boost up the screen when you destroy three of the same object in a row.

The best part about the game though is that your score is simply based on how high you get. There are no bonuses and no combos, so you know exactly how hard the person at #1 worked for their score.

FREE!

NinJump

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-12 :: Category: Games / Action

Solipskier
There’s just something very freeing about Solipskier, and it keeps sucking me in for more. I absolutely love seeing how fast I can get going and how far I can get without falling into the dreaded pit of shame and the game over screen. Like any good game in the “high score obtainer” genre, the controls are incredibly simple, but in this particular instance, difficult to master.

$2.99

Solipskier

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: SO FUN
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Released: 2010-08-12 :: Category: Games / Arcade

Fastar!
Fastar! is a great high score obtainer that gives you so much more than the average game in the genre. Instead of just giving you one thing to control, Fastar! gives you spells and a sword for your mission to dispatch the enemies with as much haste as possible. Most of the 24 game modes have a simple objective, get through them as fast as possible without dying, and nothing more. Once your level is done, and they will be done fast, the game throws your lowly high score in your face, almost taunting you into playing again.

If you haven’t put at least an hour into trying to beat some high score in Fastar!, you must not have a competitive bone in your body.

FREE!
$1.99

Fastar!

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: REALLY FAST
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Released: 2010-07-30 :: Category: Games / Role Playing

Orbital
It’s a tough call, but Orbital is probably in my top 5 favorite iPhone games of all time. It has a fairly simple concept that is extremely difficult to master, and is extremely unforgiving. Make one mistake and you are dead, but at least you know exactly what you did when you made the mistake. Also, unlike the rest of the high score obtainers on the list, time is not an issue in Orbital. Take as much time as you’d like… the game doesn’t care one bit. Nothing is moving and nothing is growing, it’s all you and your increasing incompetence.

The best part of it all is the frustrating realization that your last move may have doomed your game for good. Instead of rushing you past your mistakes, forcing you to mentally move on, Orbital gives you time to scowl at the screen for as long as you want. Nothing is funnier than seeing someone yell at you iPhone after not beating your high score.

$2.99

ORBITAL

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: BRUTALLY FUN
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Released: 2009-08-13 :: Category: Games / Puzzle

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Five For Friday: August 13, 2010

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Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! Make sure you keep your teenagers locked in tonight, and don’t let them talk to anyone named Jason. With that warning out of the way, here’s your weekly dose of what’s new and interesting in the App Store.

The Incident – A severely polished and classy take on the sky is falling genre. Dodge wave after crazy wave of falling cars and major appliances, only to use those same items to climb ever upward to your destination, the stars.

$1.99

The Incident

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-08-10 :: Category: Games / Action

Ninjump – Jump like a ninja (because that’s what you are) up through the levels, between buildings and over laundry. Attack various creatures in match three stealthiness for stupidly awesome score and height boosts. Brag to all your friends.

FREE!

NinJump

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-12 :: Category: Games / Action

Ghosts N Goblins Gold Knights II – Capcom brings the sequel to its hardest game ever from the 1980s direct to your iPhone. You think you have what it takes? Well, do ya?

$4.99

GHOSTS’N GOBLINS GOLD KNIGHTS 2

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-12 :: Category: Games / Action

Times for iPad – Takes your RSS feeds and turns them into a lovely newspaper-style layout. If you long for the simpler days of flimsy newsprint paper and fingers stained with ink, this may be the app for you.

$7.99

Times for iPad

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-08-10 :: Category: News

Slate Magazine – In a world of iPad apps that continually ask you to pay more for their content (I’m looking at YOU, Wired), Slate asks you to read their magazine, for free, on your iPad. What more can you ask for from their asking of you? Wait, what?

FREE!

Slate Magazine

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-08-10 :: Category: News

[ Five For Friday: August 13, 2010 is a post from 148Apps ]