Gaming on the Go: Where's My Perry

I use to be a hardcore gamer and I have always enjoyed playing puzzle style games because no matter how frustrating a puzzle is when I finally get it I feel a sense of accomplishment. We live in a time where short puzzle based games are readily available because of the existence of smart phones. Before the phone became a gaming console there weren’t a whole lot of puzzle games aside from Tetris in the market place.

The first game to really make the phone gaming market take off was of course the world’s number one played game Angry Birds. This game becoming so wildly popular made gaming developers sit up and realize there is money to be made in an un-tapped market. Now almost every major game developer has some sort of game available in the App store for a very low price. Every gaming developer has ther fingers in the proverbial pie including the infamously evil Disney Corporation.

I find that children’s cartoons have taken a serious nose dive in the awesome department since I was a kid. Maybe that feeling is nostalgia fueled or maybe it is because I always preferred action based cartoons over silly ones but since Sponge-Bob Squarepants hit the scene it seems like all the kids cartoons are trying to outdo each other for ridiculous. The shows are almost painful to watch they are so mindless, but every once and a while there is a jewel that shines through and is actually funny. That new diamond in the rough is a show a show about two step brothers who are geniuses and their pet platypus who is a secret agent, the show is called "Phineas and Ferb".

The Perry the platypus is by far the best part of that show in my opinion he is constantly running around in the background of the brothers’ adventures while he is on a separate mission. Now I am going to bring my point together and tell you that Disney has released a iPhone puzzle game called “Where’s my Perry?” revolving about the secret agent platypus.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game and beat it in two days while logging a total of 6 hours but still totally worth the 99 cents I paid for it. Check it out seriously

Sincerely Urban Yeti

Dungeons and Resources: Character Builder App

With so many advances in technology these days it is no surprise to me that there are now RPG apps. I myself am a iPhone user and I find myself using a lot of different apps for different things and GMing is no different.

I have spent a fair amount of time scouring the app store for any kind of app that would help me to build upon my game. As a GM keeping track of NPCs can be challenging especially in a world as in depth as shadowrun. Finally I made a discovery, an app that not only allows me to generate random characters but also lets me edit them how I need too. The app is called " RPG Character Generator " and let me start by say this needs to be included on every DM's iPhone or iPod Touch.

Granted that the random characters tend to be more fantasy based then sci-fi but it is a small detail that I can work around. One of the great features of this app is that it also stores the characters generated so as to be called upon at a later time. This becomes handy while behind a DM screen because sometimes my phone is easier to operate then a computer.

The code monkeys of lvl99games knew what they wanted when they put this wonderfully useful app together. After using this for a short while I could tell that this was designed with the kind of user in mind, because lets face it most DMs are the kind of people who are always changing things.

One of the advantages of having an app to do tasks like these is that now you can build your campaign while on the go. This allows that if you are out and have a random thought about some kind of enemy that would be awesome to throw at your players you can record it before you forget it.

A great big thank you goes out to one Mr. Steve Jobs for making geeks lives everywhere much easier. For the GM on the go this app is one I personally use and recommend for building a well integrated and complete fantasy world.