December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
9h 25m
English
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Weird and Wacky
Best Roller Coaster Design-and-Ride App
$0.99 Version: 1.5 | Ziconic
Hands and feet inside the car at all times. And, for your stomach’s sake, don’t launch AirCoaster after a full meal. This roller coaster design-and-ride game is true enough to life to send any recently digested food in the wrong direction. Call it Reality Gaming. Most folks will opt to start by riding the app’s demo track or sampling the sometimes rickety, occasionally insane creations of your fellow app owners. (Mr. AC Titan’s “Death Trap” looks more like a nail bed on wheels than an amusement ride.) But once you tap around a bit, you might find the craft of track building its own draw. There’s an odd charm in being able to build big things from what is, after all, still a pretty small device.
TICKET, PLEASE: To sample the fun that awaits, start by taking a spin on the demo track (Tracks→Demo Track). For maximum real-life effect, pick in-the-car view; the icon on the bottom of the screen should show a track icon rather than the bird’s-eye view’s globe—that’s what you see when you want to watch the ride from a distance.
HOP IN: The app also includes a full complement of share-what-you’ve-built and sample-others’-stuff tools: check out the Community button to get started and download some seriously ...
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