Games

Qranking with the masses

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010


I’m the type of nasty girl who likes to Qrank in public with multiple people all at once.

No really, it isn’t as nasty as it sounds. If you haven’t yet started Qranking, it’s time to get to it. This Austin-based app has become a local favorite and the daily and live trivia app game is slowly being adopted by local businesses and news organizations as a way to bring audiences together.

Last week I got my Qrank on in public for the first time in a game hosted by the Austin American Statesman.

Appy Halloween

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

So I’m a bit late on the Halloween posting, I was too busy stuffing my face full of tiny packs of nerds and figuring out how to de-slutify my slutoween costume for work, but I did want to catch up and thank one of my favorite apps, Miso, for their costume award. I’ve talked about Miso a lot in the past, it’s where I document all the TV shows and movies I watch, and the app held a Halloween contest for the best movie or TV themed costume. Now I took third behind far and away the WORST Joan Holloway I’ve ever seen (seriously sting bean, you were an insult to my Mad Men premiere Joan outfit) but I still stuck out as a foxy curvaciosu redhead. Look familiar anyone?

Halloween has become a big deal in the app store with apps like Doodle Jump and Angry Birds putting on spooky themes to draw in seasonally motivated players. But it appears the rest of the world actually responded by dressing as their favorite app characters. Naturally, it appears that the game more infectious than the common cold, Angry Birds, took the most number of fans:

But Halloween didn’t go to the birds entirely. There were also a few Plants vs. Zombies and Cooking Mamas.

Is Fart App The Movie going too far?

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

So they want to make a movie out of hit iPhone app game Angry Birds. You know what,I think this is just a great idea, I mean why not, in an age when movies like Cats vs. Dog and Piranha 3D can put butts in seats, I don’t see why we can’t make a full length feature film about birds fighting pigs. And after all, we know how well previous thinly-plotted video game movies have done. I mean look at the accolades that Mario Brothers Movie (Rotten Tomatoes rating 14%) drew, or what about the Academy nominations that Mark Wahlberg drew for Max Payne.

Hey, and why stop with Angry Birds?! Lady AppApp is ready to get in on this game and has been busy writing screenplays for some equally ludicrous app movies:

 (Fruit Ninja) – The Movie

After his honorable sensei was slain by a soured sour plum one ninja will fight his way across Japan, destroying any orange, watermelon or lemon that crosses his path, in order to chop down the fatal plum tree and avenge his master’s death.

 (Fat Booth) – The Movie 

When vain teenage cheerleader Melissa, played by America’s Sweetheart Taylor Swift, pushes her fat goth classmate out of the way to take her turn in the carnival photobooth she never expects her to use her Wiccan powers to cast a spell that will make Melissa feel just as much an outcast. In the grand tradition of Tom Hanks’ BIG, Melissa enters the booth 110 lbs and leaves 220 and must make a soul searching journey to learn how to live in her new body and find the photobooth that changed her.

 (Doodle Jump) – The Movie

12-year-old Paul is constantly finding himself in school detention for doodling and daydreaming but when a whimsical new art teacher gives him a magical pencil he finds himself in more trouble than ever. Sucked into the pages of his own sketchbook Paul must fight his own 3-eyed snowmen and evil robot creations and use the magical pencil and all of his imagination to escape.

 (Hipstamatic) -The Movie

Photographer Lon Sterling is famous for his crisp black and whites and stark photos but when the magazines stop picking up his images he falls into an inspirational rut he cannot escape. But when he stumbles across manic pixie dream girl Holga, played by the lovable Zooey Deschanel, in a vintage camera shop in Williamsburg she teaches him the beauty of life’s imperfections as seen through the lenses of Leica and Lomo.

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