Circus Calcticus, which was known as “DUEL” for a short time, has been updated. It’s a futuristic gladiator tournament, where combatants duel each other to the death for the pleasure of the galactic empire. The game will comprise the player’s fighting career, with the difficulty and rewards ramping up with each new match. A match ends when one gladiator loses all of his shields, and is fried by his opponents laser beam. The player begins a match with three shields, while each new opponent gains more shields up to a maximum of five.

Release notes:

The office is incredibly empty, so I feel like I might have my first full day to work on this game. Been futzing around with several elements this morning.

Sound FX: sound effects for lasers, and added an ominous rumble for when the shield zones seal closed.

Graphics Revised the shield zone effect and the death zone effect. Added more enemy styles for a current total of sixteen before looping.

Difficulty/Leveling I’m starting to fool around with the leveling logic, trying to locate a nice balance. I’ve been playtesting a lot to try to fine tune the leveling aspect of the game, but I could really use some insights from other people who are playing the game. Even top scores or the color pattern of the gladiator who killed you would be helpful, but if you notice anything else like ways to solve or “cheap-shot” the game (or, ways in which the game is “cheap-shot’ting” you) would be extremely helpful.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=136119&st=25

atari2600land has posted an update of his Atari 2600 homebrew game “Jack and the Beanstalk” which is based upon a fairy tale with the same name.

Release notes:

Fixed a few more bugs (the sun should set in the cutscene now. Tell me if it doesn’t.) Three more screens for level 2 added. Level 2 is finished! Next up: making a cutscene for between levels 2 & 3. Level 3 will be an “Adventure”-like castle in which you must find the goose that lays the golden egg and the magic harp before you can leave. To leave, you go to where you started, and the door will be open.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118991&st=50

iTile is a version of the classical game 15-puzzle that allows you to use your own images or take new ones with the camera. It support device gestures to move the piezes and have three different difficulty levels.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/games/itile

Animoto turns the pictures on your iPhone into beautiful music videos! It takes just a few minutes to make one, and then you can share them and collect them with your friends.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/photography/animoto-videos

Spot the difference between two nearly identical drawings and photos as fast as possible! The game includes polished image pairs, each with 6 to 8 differences. Hunt for all the differences before the timer runs out by tapping them.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/games/ispot

Turn your iPhone or iPod touch into the ultimate war plane.

Red Baron takes the hard work out of plane flying. You no longer have to make your own engine and machine gun sound effects. Red Baron reacts to your hand movements, speeding up with you, following every swerve and dive.

Red Baron also comes with two very tempting BIG RED BUTTONS!

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/games/red-baron

Comeks is a fun and visual, comic style messaging and microblogging tool. Combine your photos with graphical add-on stickers and text bubbles to make funny cartoon like Comek-messages. You can share the created Comeks as email, status update or mPostcard.

Features

– Add photos or choose a color in the background
– Add funny comic style stickers, scale, move and rotate them with multi-touch
– Share your Comek with email, publish online or send mPostCards directly to friends’ mobile phone
– Browse your Comeks page within the application

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/social-networking/comeks

Din Mix provides a unique memory puzzle that is a fun mental challenge. The game can be configured to be simple enough for a child or challenging enough for an adult.

The challenge is simple: select the right keys to match the audio challenge.

Its not as easy as you might think. A player cannot directly reveal the sounds associated with a given key, rather, they must deduce the sounds associated with the keys by making guesses and listening to the sounds represented by the selected keys.

Solve the puzzle with the fewest guesses and become the top ranked player in the world!

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/games/din-mix

From developer the developers of the PhotoMatch game, here comes a matching game with Christmas theme.

Features:

– Nice and Beautiful christmas graphic.
– High score record best time and move count

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/games/xmas-photomatch

Pocket Forecast which is formerly known as Pocket Weather has been udpated.

This weather forecast application has the following features:

1. Multiple locations
2. Cached weather feeds
3. Skinnable themes
4. Uses Yahoo/Weather.com RSS feed – see http://www.yahoo.com/weather to look up location codes (also uses U.S. zip codes)
5. Open source (code posted on Basic4ppc.com forums)
6. Configurable interval for updating weather feed
7. Integrates with S2U
8. QVGA and VGA support
9. Multi-language support
10. Integrates with AppToDate
11. Pocket PC and PC versions
12. Integrates with Levenum’s Today Screen plug-in

Changes:

– public release containing development builds up to D.49

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=445576