Hudson Offering 'Aqua Forest' and Other Titles for Free

MacRumors · Oct 8, 2008, 11:08 AM

iPhone developer Hudson is giving away three of its iPhone games this week as a promotion for the Tokyo Game Show 2008.

The free games include:

Aqua Forest ($7.99 -> Free) - particle-based physics game
Catch The Egg ($3.99 -> Free) - accelerometer-based game to catch a falling egg
NeoSameGame ($3.99 -> Free) - puzzle game

The promotion ends October 12th, so get them while you can.

Aqua Forest is the most popular of the three and offers a very impressive physics engine:

Article Link

Vandam500 · Oct 8, 2008, 11:19 AM

Awesome!! downloading Aqua Forest now

Edit: Thank goodness I didn't buy it last week :S 7.99 and now free, wow.

ejrizo · Oct 8, 2008, 11:23 AM

damn im a sucker for anything on the app store that goes from a fee to FREE!... i dont even know what the things are but i download them... haha .. anyway cant complain for free downloading all three right now.

slicecom · Oct 8, 2008, 12:06 PM

Wow, those apps look horrible! I don't even want them for free.

raggedjimmi · Oct 8, 2008, 12:16 PM

Aqua Forest looks like any one of them awesome 'falling sand' games. Which are bloody addictive as hell on a PC. Hope it works well on my iPod Touch!

bacaramac · Oct 8, 2008, 12:17 PM

I was holding on Aqua Forest, glad I hadn't purchased it yet. Cool.

swingerofbirch · Oct 8, 2008, 12:34 PM

Argg...I payed for Aqua Forest...it's cool, but I never use it now. Oh well. I don't mind supporting people who put work into something.

bytethese · Oct 8, 2008, 12:51 PM

Holy addicting...

puckhead193 · Oct 8, 2008, 01:24 PM

am i not getting something but i watched the youtube video and have no idea what the purpose of that game

aardwolf · 02:02 PM

I'm having trouble with "Make a road" on Category C.

Nevermind... I didn't realize I could change the tools.

Fidgetyrat · Oct 8, 2008, 02:12 PM

I deleted aqua forest after getting through half the tutorial. 1fps is unacceptable.

ltldrummerboy · Oct 8, 2008, 02:15 PM

Aqua Forest is the only one worth keeping. Actually, I can't speak for the egg-toss game. I didn't download it after I saw that it had 1.5 stars. Aqua Forest isn't really a game though. It's a flippin' sweet physics engine. That other puzzle game is confusing. It's hard to measure up to something as phenomenal as Trism.

bigandy · Oct 8, 2008, 02:52 PM

*must stop downloading apps just because they're free*

tha80sbrat · Oct 8, 2008, 03:46 PM

Is it suppose to be really slow? The Youtube video looks a lot smoother.

edtorious · Oct 8, 2008, 03:53 PM

is the app store down? My Iphone is getting the "cannot connect to iTunes Store" error message? I don't have iTunes at work so I'm trying to download these free apps thru my Iphone. Anybody else having the same problem?

macduke · Oct 8, 2008, 05:17 PM

You know what's odd? I've been watching apps on appshopper.com for a few days now, and these three apps have gone from free to FEE to free back and forth several times. It is very confusing. I saw it was free and went to go buy it, and it cost money again. I almost clicked through and paid, which would have sucked. Then today I got it free. I don't really get it though. It's just a simulation? I thought it was a game? After drawing some water, it slowed down to the point of not being usable.

dukebound85 · Oct 8, 2008, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigandy

*must stop downloading apps just because they're free*

hahaha soooo true

kupua · Oct 8, 2008, 06:37 PM

This looks like another real usefull app!

eeks

dieburnbot · Oct 8, 2008, 08:34 PM

They should release Puzzloop for free that game is funtastic.

chainprayer · Oct 8, 2008, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fidgetyrat

I deleted aqua forest after getting through half the tutorial. 1fps is unacceptable.

lol how many objects did you add?

Yvan256 · Oct 8, 2008, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chainprayer

lol how many objects did you add?

I'm also getting extremely low framerates. The point is, the programmers should have put a limit on the number of "particles" (for lack of a better word) so that the game always runs smoothly.

Back to playing Galcon Lite I guess.

pimentoLoaf · Oct 8, 2008, 10:52 PM

Neo SameGame has some nice sounds, but it's an overdone version of the far better reMoveem Free.

diogenis · Oct 9, 2008, 03:09 AM

Nice apps, enjoyed the egg catch, but its got a mistake:
In tutorial it says that the bigger the egg the faster it falls from the sky, which is a very common mistake done by people that refuse to understand the law of gravity. In reality, it's NOT the mass that affects speed, but height.
That means for this game that either they chose to represent different heights and same size eggs, depicting this with smaller graphic on begining of the fall (in which case smaller=means higher= faster) or they choose same heights and forget about it all over, but they fix it

sunfast · Oct 9, 2008, 11:07 AM

Why does aqua forest look so fuzzy? The text is clear but the game graphics look like they've been smeared with Vaseline!

DipDog3 · Oct 9, 2008, 11:58 AM

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

The links don't work!!

At least on the iPhone, the commission links are broken and won't open App Store.

Oct 8, 2008, 11:08 AM	#1
MacRumors macrumors bot Join Date: Apr 2001	Hudson Offering 'Aqua Forest' and Other Titles for Free iPhone developer Hudson is giving away three of its iPhone games this week as a promotion for the Tokyo Game Show 2008. The free games include: Aqua Forest ($7.99 -> Free) - particle-based physics game Catch The Egg ($3.99 -> Free) - accelerometer-based game to catch a falling egg NeoSameGame ($3.99 -> Free) - puzzle game The promotion ends October 12th, so get them while you can. Aqua Forest is the most popular of the three and offers a very impressive physics engine: Article Link

Oct 8, 2008, 11:19 AM	#2
Vandam500 macrumors 65816 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Stone Mountain,Georgia	Good deal! Awesome!! downloading Aqua Forest now Edit: Thank goodness I didn't buy it last week :S 7.99 and now free, wow. __________________ White iPhone 3GS 16GB running 3.1.2 blackra1ned My Top 10 Cydia Apps (Featured on 9to5mac.com) My Orbit Review

Oct 8, 2008, 11:23 AM	#3
ejrizo macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South El Monte, CA (Los Angeles)	damn im a sucker for anything on the app store that goes from a fee to FREE!... i dont even know what the things are but i download them... haha .. anyway cant complain for free downloading all three right now. __________________ Designed by Apple in California

Oct 8, 2008, 12:16 PM	#5
raggedjimmi macrumors 604 Join Date: Jan 2005	Aqua Forest looks like any one of them awesome 'falling sand' games. Which are bloody addictive as hell on a PC. Hope it works well on my iPod Touch! __________________ www.bossbaddie.com

Oct 8, 2008, 12:17 PM	#6
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Oct 8, 2008, 12:06 PM	#4
slicecom macrumors 6502a Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada	Wow, those apps look horrible! I don't even want them for free.

Oct 8, 2008, 12:34 PM	#7
swingerofbirch macrumors 68000 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: The Amalgamated States of Central North America	Argg...I payed for Aqua Forest...it's cool, but I never use it now. Oh well. I don't mind supporting people who put work into something. __________________ Blog of Failure After using a PC all day, coming home to my Mac is like a tall, cold glass of peach iced tea.

Oct 8, 2008, 12:51 PM	#8
bytethese macrumors 68020 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York, NY	Holy addicting...

Oct 8, 2008, 01:24 PM	#9
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Oct 8, 2008, 01:43 PM	#10
aardwolf macrumors member Join Date: May 2007	I'm having trouble with "Make a road" on Category C. Nevermind... I didn't realize I could change the tools. Last edited by aardwolf : Oct 8, 2008 at 02:02 PM.

Oct 8, 2008, 02:12 PM	#11
Fidgetyrat macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2008	I deleted aqua forest after getting through half the tutorial. 1fps is unacceptable. __________________ MBP Unibody 2.53 \| iPod Touch 2G

Oct 8, 2008, 02:15 PM	#12
ltldrummerboy macrumors 65816 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kenai Peninsula	Aqua Forest is the only one worth keeping. Actually, I can't speak for the egg-toss game. I didn't download it after I saw that it had 1.5 stars. Aqua Forest isn't really a game though. It's a flippin' sweet physics engine. That other puzzle game is confusing. It's hard to measure up to something as phenomenal as Trism. __________________ New to AT&T (30 days or less)? Want a $25 credit towards your next bill? PM me and we can both save!

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Oct 8, 2008, 03:46 PM	#14
tha80sbrat macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2007	Is it suppose to be really slow? The Youtube video looks a lot smoother.

Oct 8, 2008, 03:53 PM	#15
edtorious macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: San Diego, California	App Store Down? is the app store down? My Iphone is getting the "cannot connect to iTunes Store" error message? I don't have iTunes at work so I'm trying to download these free apps thru my Iphone. Anybody else having the same problem? __________________ 13" Macbook White 3G Iphone 16GB Black "Excellence I try to achieve, Perfection is 's business..."

Oct 8, 2008, 05:17 PM	#16
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Oct 8, 2008, 06:37 PM	#18
kupua macrumors member Join Date: May 2005	This looks like another real usefull app! eeks

Oct 8, 2008, 08:34 PM	#19
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Oct 8, 2008, 10:52 PM	#22
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Oct 9, 2008, 03:09 AM	#23
diogenis macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2008	Nice apps, enjoyed the egg catch, but its got a mistake: In tutorial it says that the bigger the egg the faster it falls from the sky, which is a very common mistake done by people that refuse to understand the law of gravity. In reality, it's NOT the mass that affects speed, but height. That means for this game that either they chose to represent different heights and same size eggs, depicting this with smaller graphic on begining of the fall (in which case smaller=means higher= faster) or they choose same heights and forget about it all over, but they fix it

Oct 9, 2008, 11:07 AM	#24
sunfast macrumors 68020 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London	Why does aqua forest look so fuzzy? The text is clear but the game graphics look like they've been smeared with Vaseline! __________________ 762

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