Showing posts with label android games for kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label android games for kids. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Glorious time wasters: Fruit Roll
If you're into old video games, you'll find yourself right at home in this side scrolling platform game for Android devices. This free game offers a very simple scenario -- you start out the game as a yellow fruit (which changes as you encounter other things) and the goal is to bounce and squish and roll as you grab stars (points) and weapons (fruit) through different levels. The weapons (fruit choices) appear on the left hand side of the screen as you collect them; tapping on them allows you to change your character to get that fruit's powers. But choose your fruit weapons wisely, because if you hit the enemy with the wrong fruit, you're going to lose the encounter. Tapping (single, double, triple) give you different jump heights. Time them carefully, because like any physics based game it's easy to misjudge distance. I prefer the "feel" of this on my 7 inch Android tablet, though it's quite playable on my Android phone as well.
Certain fruits change the size of your character or the game speed and affects the gameplay in a drastic fashion as you hit the higher levels.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Glorious Time Wasters: Magma Mobile's "Galaxy"
Glorious Time Wasters: Galaxy
Initial review: Five stars -- deceptively easy for the first rounds.
Game category: Puzzle games
Game type: Puzzle and timed puzzle
Recommended device size: any device
Who'd enjoy it? For everyone, really.
My tablet chimed softly as the game screen loaded. My husband eyed the first screen: run your finger over three lines to connect 3 stars in a triangle. "Tough, huh?" he joked. I gritted my teeth. "I'm reviewing Android games for kids. Parents always like to have recommendations for little free Android games suitable for children so that they can keep the young ones amused while they're waiting somewhere," I said as the screen flashed "good job."
A four sided figure appeared. "It's a Mom thing," I said.
He looked at me, amused.
"It's supposed to be easy," I swooshed through the figure in two seconds. "Good job!" the screen read.
More stars appeared, connected by lines. The next diagram was no problem for an adult but might be challenging for a four year old learning to play connect the dots games. However, by the time the game had gotten up to level 8, the difficulty level had crept up. There were some "one way" connections and if you tried to go over a line a second time, it would erase the line. By the time I hit level 13, it was taking longer than 3 seconds to get through and I was having to think about which moves would work best.
That's typical of a lot of the Magma Mobile games.
Initial review: Five stars -- deceptively easy for the first rounds.
Game category: Puzzle games
Game type: Puzzle and timed puzzle
Recommended device size: any device
Who'd enjoy it? For everyone, really.
My tablet chimed softly as the game screen loaded. My husband eyed the first screen: run your finger over three lines to connect 3 stars in a triangle. "Tough, huh?" he joked. I gritted my teeth. "I'm reviewing Android games for kids. Parents always like to have recommendations for little free Android games suitable for children so that they can keep the young ones amused while they're waiting somewhere," I said as the screen flashed "good job."
A four sided figure appeared. "It's a Mom thing," I said.
He looked at me, amused.
"It's supposed to be easy," I swooshed through the figure in two seconds. "Good job!" the screen read.
More stars appeared, connected by lines. The next diagram was no problem for an adult but might be challenging for a four year old learning to play connect the dots games. However, by the time the game had gotten up to level 8, the difficulty level had crept up. There were some "one way" connections and if you tried to go over a line a second time, it would erase the line. By the time I hit level 13, it was taking longer than 3 seconds to get through and I was having to think about which moves would work best.
That's typical of a lot of the Magma Mobile games.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Glorious time Wasters -- Match Up: People Edition
Match Up -- People Edition
From the Magma Mobile folks who created the nice little "Memory Match" game for the Android operating system comes a new twist on the classic "Match" game -- the "People edition." This version of the game uses pictures of people whose biographies you can find on Wikipedia (if that statement sounds a bit dodgy, it's because I don't watch movies or tv much, can't identify most actors or singers (other than the Beatles) or athletes, and have no idea what various entrepreneurs look like). If you're bad at recognizing faces, this is a good game for you. Make that a GREAT game.
It's the standard type of game play -- touch the cards to flip them. Cards that you haven't looked at have a question mark on the back. This particular version allows you to pick how many cards you want in your grid -- 4 cards (yes, 4), 16, 30, 36, 64, 72, 90, and 100 card versions. The images are a mix of black and white and color pictures. This is a good deal for those of us who are very bad at recognizing faces, because you can cue off hairstyles and colors.
Memory match games are mind-numbing amusement (not a thrill a minute) and at the 64+ card level, a good quick brain workout. Now if there was only an option for you to insert photos of your relatives or folks you meet in social situations. That'd be a great review for those Awkward Social Situations we all seem to fall into.
From the Magma Mobile folks who created the nice little "Memory Match" game for the Android operating system comes a new twist on the classic "Match" game -- the "People edition." This version of the game uses pictures of people whose biographies you can find on Wikipedia (if that statement sounds a bit dodgy, it's because I don't watch movies or tv much, can't identify most actors or singers (other than the Beatles) or athletes, and have no idea what various entrepreneurs look like). If you're bad at recognizing faces, this is a good game for you. Make that a GREAT game.
It's the standard type of game play -- touch the cards to flip them. Cards that you haven't looked at have a question mark on the back. This particular version allows you to pick how many cards you want in your grid -- 4 cards (yes, 4), 16, 30, 36, 64, 72, 90, and 100 card versions. The images are a mix of black and white and color pictures. This is a good deal for those of us who are very bad at recognizing faces, because you can cue off hairstyles and colors.
Memory match games are mind-numbing amusement (not a thrill a minute) and at the 64+ card level, a good quick brain workout. Now if there was only an option for you to insert photos of your relatives or folks you meet in social situations. That'd be a great review for those Awkward Social Situations we all seem to fall into.
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