

Blocks drop from the top of the screen and need to be matched-three at a minimum, naturally-in order to clear the well the longer you take, the more the walls and floor of the well “compress” your play area.
#Solar walk game full#
You’re presented with a well full of filled and semi-filled colored blocks, and have to eliminate all of the semi-filled blocks to move on to the next level. Though we were tempted to include Little While Bear Studios’ iPad puzzle game Compression HD (Free, version 1.0) in this week’s gaming edition of Gems, it turns out to be so simple that it felt better suited to this brief roundup. In fact, filters like these are only a small part of Photogene, which offers considerable additional editing power at a similar price. So whereas the idea of devolving a cell phone-quality image into a 1974 or silver-tinged picture makes sense, doing so with a higher-quality image is arguably less valuable, and could easily be just one feature in a more capable iPad photo editing application. The critical difference between the iPad and the iPhone is that iPad users don’t have a camera-grainy or otherwise-built into that device, so the only photos they’re dealing with are ones taken by separate cameras, most often point-and-shoots with far better capabilities than the iPhone.

#Solar walk game update#
Now there’s a separate version for the iPad called CameraBag for iPad ($3, version 1.9.1), and our internal discussion has turned into a debate: is an app like this really necessary, particularly as a more expensive standalone version rather than as a universal update to the highly similar iPhone and iPod touch original? One of the most memorable discussions dealt with the original version of Nevercenter’s CameraBag, an iPhone tool that filtered the grainy, low-resolution images from early iPhone and iPhone 3G cameras, transforming them into faux Polaroids, as well as high- and low-contrast images similar to ones from other classic cameras. The value of iPhone OS camera applications is an ongoing topic of discussion between iLounge’s editors, all of whom love photography and enjoy playing with new cameras and photo editing tools.
