Hey, Vsauce, I'm Jake and get ready to App Allllllll Niiiiight.
Caw!
You know what's worse than laser-shooting birds? Bomb-clutching kamikaze birds! In Bad
Hotel you are tasked with building a successful establishment that can also withstand attacks
from evil wildlife and jerks...you jerk. You have to protect the lobby by strategically
placing rooms that can shoot bullets, bombs, regenerate other units health, and ones that
create income so you can buy more defenses.
Let's go somewhere with a little less Avian creatures, like space.
Distant Suns, which is pretty much the pokedex of the Universe, lets you use your phone's
compass as a guide to the night sky. You can learn the history behind constellations, and
pretty much every piece of info on the planets in our Solar System, like the length of a
year on Jupiter. You can even zoom into Mars and see Curiosity, an app that is as much
a game as it is a social experiment.
You and thousands of other players are tasked with slowly and scrupulously tapping away
at a giant cube piece-by-piece. What lies in the center, no one knows, but according
to the creators, it is something life changing. If you want to be the one who discovers what's
inside, don't let too much time e-lapse...it.
Lapse It: A simple and incredibly useful camera app that turns your phone into an intervalometer.
It allows you to easily take timelapses and stop motions like this...
But lets get out of here and check out Mr. Legs, a man on a mission for cherries. You
move him up and down through different crazy landscapes, adjusting his speed and avoiding
bombs and birds (birrrdddsssss!). Not only is Mr. Legs a fun game, but it also has a
great style. You can show off your own style with Paper, a beautifully designed app that
houses your different notebooks.
You can designate them for anything you want and use them to write down your ideas, draw
sketches, or whatever your little heart desires. If you don't have an iPad then a good alternative
for sketching is Sketchbook Express.
It comes with a bunch of different writing and drawing utensils, allows you to add text,
and you can have up to 3 different layers in one project. But, you'll need to be able
to draw quick if you want to survive in Ready, Steady, Bang, an addictive and visually beautiful
game that has you as a cowboy in an old fashion duel.
You have to draw your gun faster than your opponent if you want to make it to the next
round, but even more satisfying is watching the unique, and varying death's of your enemy.
The more you play the faster you'll become, and it really lets you to hone your craft;
however, I'd rather Minecraft in Minecraft Reality by 13th Cloud.
It's an awesomely cool app that puts those textured cubes into the real world. You choose
from a library of creations, find the best location for it, and then after it reads and
creates the 3D space, you have yourself a cute little creeper on your desk. You can
even upload your own Minecraft creations through the Minecraft Reality website to see how it
would look in your living room.
To keep up with everything that is going on in the online world get Feedly, an incredibly
useful app that aggregates content from your favorite websites, blogs, RSS feeds, and YouTube
Channels (*cough* Vsauce3.) The app is amazingly well designed and easy to use, making it a
simple task to stay up to date and organized with everything that interests you.
Now lets go back to the year 2000 for this episode's app of the week:
Jet Set Radio, the game originally for the Sega Dreamcast, has been released for mobile.
In it you find yourself as a spray-paint-happy skater. You have to make your mark by tagging
over rival gang's graffiti, avoid the police, and, in this version, you can even upload
custom images for your graffiti.
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Links to everything can be found in the description below.
I'm Jake and, as always, thanks
for watching.