Some of My Favorite Games

I don't have much to talk about development wise, so I thought I would write about a couple Android games that I've particularly enjoyed.

Cartoon Wars is a pretty awesome tower defense type game. Basically you just send out waves of your various stick figure warriors to fight against comic book looking monsters. Its a tug-of-war until one team destroys the tower at the other team's end. Your different unit types can be upgraded to deal with the harder levels and more challenging enemy monsters. Some games become such a back and forth fight that they end up lasting 15 minutes or more, which is rough because you only have 20 minutes to destroy the enemy tower or you lose. All in all, its a solid tower defense game that is definitely worth a play.

A game that I've recently started playing is Temple Run. In this game your character has stolen a treasure from an ancient temple and is now in the process of fleeing as they are chased by some sort of vicious ape creatures. The game involves swiping the screen in different directions to turn corners, jump over or slide under obstacles. It also uses the device's accelerometers to strafe back and forth on the track you are running on. If you think about it, this game is played a lot like Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero for your phone, but instead of pushing one of the 4 buttons in time with music, you swipe in the correct direction to jump over a pit or slide under a fire spitting statue. When you add in the "Temple of Doom" style setting, you feel more like you are a fast paced Pitfall or even a Tomb Raider type game. At first I felt the game was too repetitive, but it quickly grew on me and the upgrades you can buy with the gold you collect while playing keep me coming back to try get better power-ups.