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New iPod Game: Brain Challenge
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I'm amused at the irony that for a game calling itself "Brain Challenge", there is a blonde with glasses perched above its title.
Personally I'm enjoying the games on the iphone available via web 2.0 etc. Here is a link to the wannabe "brain age" game. Its easy and free to register and pretty fun I think...
http://www.apple.com/webapps/games/minddojo.html
I didn't even realize apple had that area designated for iphone apps until a few days ago. There is ALOT of cool stuff there : )
http://www.apple.com/webapps/games/minddojo.html
I didn't even realize apple had that area designated for iphone apps until a few days ago. There is ALOT of cool stuff there : )
Maybe they should worry about making sure the games they've already released work before dumping another one on an unsuspecting public.
Ever since the 1.0.3 firmware release, Phase crashes my iPod Classic. I had similar problems with Vortex on my 5.5g Video.
Ever since the 1.0.3 firmware release, Phase crashes my iPod Classic. I had similar problems with Vortex on my 5.5g Video.
What do you do it for, money? ( = status = self-esteem)
Some developers do it for fame/backslapping ( = self-esteem)
They get their food elsewhere, i. e. their boring daytime job. And some just do it for the cause: better software.
Yes. And in the same fashion one could state that Apple did not create the hand-held input device driven GUI of course. PARC! Gesundheid
Consumers should stop buying the iPhone if their going to complain about the features that were never promised.
Not just consoles. They've found their way onto desktop OSs as well! (Not surprisingly.) E.G. Mind Medley by GameHouse. That's around $20 too, so if you're addicted to the brain training genre, $5 won't kill you.
This is my first forum post, but I've been reading what you've all been writing for a while now.
This game blipped on and then off the iTS last week... I grabbed it when it was available, and have had great fun with it over the past week or so...
...although my Nano has crashed whilst syncing a few times since, perhaps this new release fixes that problem?
Anyhow, complaining that a game costs a whole $5 is just plain cheap of you people, especially when comparable games on other handhelds are four times as expensive! Jeez, there's no pleasing some of you
...although my Nano has crashed whilst syncing a few times since, perhaps this new release fixes that problem?
Anyhow, complaining that a game costs a whole $5 is just plain cheap of you people, especially when comparable games on other handhelds are four times as expensive! Jeez, there's no pleasing some of you
ROFL, you do know that without 'free' software there would be no OSX? I hope Apple has paid every person who contributed to *BSD or Webkit. When the SDK is finally released there will be tons of 'free' games simply because people will write things for fun and release them. Of course Apple hates this, because they lose the easy revenue stream of taking already written popcap style games (that you can play for free on the internet) and putting them on the ipod and charging $5 for them.
And as far as the ipod touch or iphone being the best ipod ever? Talk to me when either of those has the option for 80GB of storage space.
Outdated? What are you talking about? Isn't the iPod classic newer than the iPhone?
Sorry guys - you KNEW what the score was with the iPhone - you can't complain about a lack of a feature you KNEW wasn't going to be available from the outset. It's one ( of the many ) reasons I don't have an iPhone....meanwhile, I'm loving Brain Challenge on my iPod Classic
Doug
I'm really annoyed with some of you people that think it's a *requirement* to pay for software. It is, of course, completely and totally up to the software developer, and i do not support anyones ideas to force us to pay. There are tons of free apps. How many of you are using Adium and Firefox?
Is $5 reasonable for a brain game? Who knows. The market will decide. NOT an artificial rule.
Apple didn't develop it.
Is $5 reasonable for a brain game? Who knows. The market will decide. NOT an artificial rule.
Apple didn't develop it.
How old are you people? 11?
$5 isn't a big investment and nobody is forcing you to buy it. I went ahead and purchased it because I enjoy the brain games on my DS and Wii and it turned out to be a smart choice. Had it not been, I would have been out $5.
Really, people. It's $5. How much do you blow at Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, or, since most of you are 11, the candy store in one visit?
$5 isn't a big investment and nobody is forcing you to buy it. I went ahead and purchased it because I enjoy the brain games on my DS and Wii and it turned out to be a smart choice. Had it not been, I would have been out $5.
Really, people. It's $5. How much do you blow at Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, or, since most of you are 11, the candy store in one visit?
Think what you like, but I'm very familiar with these games, especially Brain Age. I play it every day, except when I don't and the Doctor says he's sad that he hasn't seen me. The stylus definitely adds a useful dimension to the game, especially with drawing and writing numbers, (writing words kinda sucks.)
I'd hope that they WOULDN'T release Pocket Simon for the iPod, (and I'd hope that you'd get my point by referencing a picture of it.) I'm not disagreeing with you guys that Nintendo doesn't have a big influence behind the current re-evolution (or revolution, considering current sales,) of these brain games. I also agree that this iPod version is very similar to the current versions that we're seeing for current game consoles. I'm just saying that brain training games have been around, and will continue to be around in future incarnations. What we're seeing now is just the versions for the current console trend.
I love Nintendo; they've progressed video games in much the same way as Apple has progressed computers, and I'm sure they'll do it again. However, I don't think Nintendo will, or even desires to legally pursue Apple for compensation. As I've said, no one buys an iPod as a gaming system. That's what Nintendo's for. As for the iPod, their games are more of an afterthought, and I think Nintendo is confident in their current position in this market.
That's a bad strawman. A responding to a complaint that the game costs $5 is not implying that paying for software should be a requirement.
I'm really annoyed at people who think that software should always be free, but that doesn't mean that I don't think developers should release software for free. As you said, it's totally up to the developer. This developer chose to charge money for it
Not one person here implied that software should never be free.
That's good. But if your employer came to you and said "our customers want free software, so is it ok if we don't pay you?" you'd be searching for a job elsewhere pretty quickly.
I'm all for releasing free software, but I will still object to those who expect software to be free. What did they do to deserve free software?
First of all, Apple didn't develop this game. Second, did you stop to think that Apple is taking some of the revenue from sales of this game and putting it into R&D?