Pixel Press Floors

[Updated on 1/30/15.]

Pixel Press Floors is an iOS and Android game that allows you to make your own platformer levels. I Kickstarted this around June of 2013 because of an interesting hook: you actually design by hand on paper and take a photograph of the paper to import it into the game.

There were a few hiccups, such as the Android version being significantly delayed. As an iOS user, this didn’t bother me. However, two others things did. First, the game changed from a paid game to a free game with in-app purchases. As someone who backed the game early, I got an account in the game that reflected this. Supposedly this would give me bonuses. I don’t know what those are. I thought I was supposed to be able to place enemies in my level (it’s normally an IAP), but I don’t see any option for that currently. [Update: I contacted the developer, and they fixed everything for me within a day. Great customer service!] The second, bigger problem is that the creation mode ended up being iPad only. That’s great if I owned an iPad, but I don’t.

Regardless, I finally had a chance to sit down and make some levels with gem’s iPad, and it was a ton of fun. I’m still annoyed about not being able to create on the iPhone, and I’m hoping they add it. As for the backer bonuses, I don’t know what the deal is there, but I just reached out to Pixel Press to find out.

As for making levels? Fun! You don’t get to change any of the physics or design your own sprites, but you still can set the layout of levels. Even though what initially piqued my interesting was designing on paper, I did the whole thing on the iPad. You can watch the video embedded above to see my level, appropriately named The Adventures of Peter. And hey, I published it around 1:30 today and it already has 77 plays!

If you like platformers, you might want to give this a try. As mentioned, it’s free. There are a ton of community-created levels, and you can search for mine as well.

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Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Episode 2: The Wise Monkey | iPhone/iPod, Reviews, Adventure

Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Episode 2: The Wise Monkey | iPhone/iPod, Reviews, Adventure.

I put up a quick review of the second episode in the Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller series on Game Boyz. If you like thrillers, detective work, and point-and-click adventures (and can overlook some minor presentation flaws), I’d recommend this exciting series. It’s also available for PC, although I played it on the iPad.

The Wise Monkey is the second episode of Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller by Phoenix Online Studios. It’s the thrilling follow up to The Hangman and jumps right into the action. The first one was incredibly engaging, and this episode is even more so. It upped the ante right away. If you’ve never played the first episode, you should read my review of it here

In addition, one of the important characters from the first episode is taken by a serial killer almost immediately. I wasn’t expecting so much action so quickly, and I definitely wasn’t expecting that to happen to a character whom I really liked…

If you’ve played the first episode, you should know what to expect. The Wise Monkey doesn’t need to get you acclimated. You know the gameplay, and you know the characters. This time you can plunge into the action, intrigue, detective work, and puzzles…