If the iPhone saw the rise of the line drawing game, then I'm going to point out the number of tilt and balance games on Symbian during the same period as well. While many of them are cross platform, there are enough of them for me to call it a genre in its own right. So here's another balancing game. It's called iStunt 2, and it's one of the best.
If you've ever looked skyward at night and wondered what each point of light was, you're in need of a guide. For Symbian users, that guide comes in the form of Astroller. This is an interactive sky map, controlled by touch or accelerometer plus compass. Allowing you to observe from any place on the globe, at any time, you can see how the cosmos was, and will be. Along with plenty of other tools, read on to find out who this astronomical app is best suited to.
Rolling a great big stone idol around an island might not sound like the greatest idea for a game, but Digital Chocolate have come up trumps again with Diamond Islands 2. It looks great, the graphics are clear, and the goal is obvious. It's just a shame about the control system, read on to find out why.
I'm a puzzle man, and I know what I like. Games with lots of swirling graphics, overflowing with coloured blobs, information to take in, decisions to be made and hidden consequences to any action made. Wordsler is none of that. It's just a deck of cards and some letters. Can it make me happy? It appears the answer is yse (and the pun is intended).
Read It Later is a service which allows you to queue up interesting links to read later. To streamline loading times, Read It Later delivers your saved page in a text only form, for reading either on their website, or offline with a mobile application. Therein lays the rub for Symbian users, there has been no mobile application for Read It Later. This is where Talvinder Bansal (of SymFTP fame) comes to the rescue, with his SymPaper application, a Read It Later client written in Qt. Read on find out more.
Is this it? Is this the one? Has the All About Symbian "here's what's new in the Ovi Store" gizmo finally found a Flight Control-esque game that rivals the line drawing Air Traffic Control game on iOS? Even with the smaller pixel size of our smartphones, there should be something out there? Could it be that Control Tower is the answer to my mobile gaming quest?
Got your car stuck in a traffic jam or your yacht blocked in at the marina? Then your name is Joe, and you're the character in Trogaming's Chaos and Mayham. It's a sliding block puzzle game where you have to free yourself from a 21st Century mess of vehicles. Frustrating is the word of the day, both for the circumstances Joe finds himself in, and the code on offer in this game.
With a large multi-touch-enabled touchscreen, there's absolutely no reason why your smartphone can't emulate a musical instrument, especially the grand-daddy of them all, the piano. iPhone owners have been playing such a virtual instrument for three years now, Android phone owners have been doing the same for two years, yet development of something similar for Symbian lags woefully. As I found out in preparing this review, of Grand Piano, freshly minted in Qt and in the Ovi Store as a commercial app.
When it comes to keeping a record of a document, tag, ticket or receipt on the Nokia N8, it's easy enough to snap a close-up photo, of course. And you can then zoom in later to read it as needed. But developers Norfello have come up with subtle twist - a utility that processes such photos, converts to PDF for long term storage and then, optionally, uploads the PDF to your Evernote account. In the absence of an official Evernote client, having a quick way to snap something in paper form and then have it available everywhere turns out to be rather useful.
Science Fiction fans gather around. If you like to give our extraterrestrial friends the “we come in peace, shoot to kill” type of welcome, here's a game that might interest you. In UFO2012, you are tasked with greeting landing parties of hostile aliens. Pick your team, select your arsenal and go forth exploring isometric landscapes and abandoned buildings. It's an old turn-based adventure game, so read on to see how well the formula translates to mobile gaming.
