Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Global 2012: How does Arena of Empire Defense 2 (Android game) work?

Image representing Android as depicted in Crun...Image via CrunchBaseBelow are some of the basic guidelines on how the popular Android game, Empire Defense 2's Arena's ranking and power are determined:


Reputation:

1. Your arena standing is determined by your reputation.

2. You can increase your reputation by defeating players with a higher arena standing than you. The greater the difference between your arena standings, the more reputation you are awarded.

3. If you challenge players with a lower standing than your own, your reputation will decrease. The amount of reputation deducted is determined by the difference between your respective arena standings.

4. Naturally you will also lose reputation if you are defeated by a player with a lower arena standing than you. The amount deducted depends on the difference between your respective arena standings.


Arena coins:

1. Defeat rival with higher rank than you will get 10 arena coins

2. defeat rival with lower rank than you will get 0 arena coin

3. loser will get no areana coin


Power:

1. Power determines who wins or loses in an arena battle. After a battle, the player with the greatest power wins.

2. Your power after an arena battle is determined by how many waves of enemies you survived, how much HP your hero had left, your number of units, and how much gold remained unused.

3. Your power will begin decreasing at a rate of 5% per hour if you do not enter the arena for six hour.


Crystals:

1. If you challenge and win against an opponent with a crystal symbol beside their name, you will be rewarded with their crystals upon winning.

2. The higher your rank position, the more crystals you will be awarded upon winning.

40000 /6h
15000 /6h
11000 /6h
8000 /6h
6000 /6h
4500 /6h
3500 /6h
3000 /6h
2500 /6h


http://121.52.212.203/td2/help/help.html

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Global 2012: All Windows 8 apps will offer a try-it-before-you-buy-it feature

Image representing Microsoft as depicted in Cr...Image via CrunchBase
There's nothing worse than shelling out a couple bucks on an app, only to find out that it's absolutely terrible, right? Well, Microsoft has a plan to eliminate "app regret" — when you're considering an app from the upcoming Windows 8 Store, you'll be able to try it for free for seven days before you have to shell out cash for it.

The free trial program may be a necessary tool for Microsoft to overcome the challenges posed by their house minimum: All Windows 8 apps will have a price tag of $1.49 or higher (up to $999.99). That's significantly higher than the Apple App Store's 99-cent minimum. Microsoft no doubt hopes higher sales prices will mean more revenue — after all, the company just posted their first ever net loss last quarter.

While you're able to return Android apps for a refund within 15 minutes of purchase, Microsoft is truly offering a real try-it-before-you-buy-it option. While this is no doubt exciting for future owners of Windows 8, the news may also affect other operating systems if it proves successful. After all, if the public responds favorably to a try-it-before-you-buy-it scheme, it may very well become the standard.


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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Global 2012: Google reveals pint-sized Nexus 7 tablet for just $199

Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc...Image via CrunchBase
Google revealed its long-rumored device today — a 7-inch Nexus tablet running Android's newest operating system flavor, 4.1 Jelly Bean. The pint-sized slate — which the company showed off at its annual Google I/O keynote event — is manufactured by Asus, known for making other Android tablets including the Transformer and the Transformer Prime.

The device has a 1280 x 800-pixel high-definition display, made with reading and watching videos in mind. It has a speedy Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor under the hood, front-facing camera for video chat, 9 hours of video playback — compared to the iPad's 10-hour playback life — and 300 hours of standby battery time. The tablet weighs 340 grams, which is about as much as a paperback book. Check out our hands-on gallery with the Nexus 7 for all the eye candy.

It features tighter integration with Google Play, with content being front and center, similar to how the Amazon Kindle Fire functions. Due to this, Google Play now has a new 3D magazine app with tablet-optimized articles that render well on the Nexus 7's screen.

Nexus 7 will also be the first device that ships with Chrome as its native browser — Chrome, despite being Google's browser, hasn't been available on Android until a beta version of it was introduced for Ice Cream Sandwich devices. Google has also overhauled Google Maps with additional information and review features which can predict which restaurants you'll likely enjoy. Offline maps will also be a hotly sought-after feature, and now that Apple and Microsoft are touting similar features, it's an important bullet point to have.

Pre-orders for the teensy Google Nexus 7 tablet begins today. You can order the new tablet from the Google Play store with two price tiers — $199 for the 8GB model and 16GB version — making it a true Kindle Fire competitor. It will start shipping in mid July. The Kindle Fire lands at a similar price point, but with its apps governed largely by what Amazon declares suitable for its shop, the Nexus 7 will have everything the Fire has, and then some. Despite some similar hardware specs — screen size, screen resolution, etc — the Nexus will offer a faster processor and a much more genuine Android experience from a software standpoint.

Google is clearly making a play for potential iPad customers with this sleek, streamlined device, and with a price tag of less than half of the base model Apple tablet, the company may have a real shot at success. $499 gets you a 16GB iPad with a 9.7-inch Retina display, but if ultra-sharp screen resolution and playing in the Apple universe aren't a big deal, the 7-inch Nexus slate will be much easier on your pocketbook.

Of course, it's unclear how Microsoft's Surface device will shake up the consumer tablet market. With a physical keyboard and Windows 8-esque software design, it seems like Android and iOS devotees will already have their minds made up between the iPad and the Nexus 7.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/google-reveals-pint-sized-nexus-7-tablet-just-174842353.html

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Monday, May 14, 2012

Global 2012: ‘Angry Birds’ team reveals next project

Angry BirdsAngry Birds (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
After flinging ticked off toucans at egg-stealing pigs for the past three years, the developers at Rovio are ready to spread their wings and fly away from the nest.

The creator of the massively successful Angry Birds franchise has a new game on the way, with nary a bird in sight.

Amazing Alex is in the works right now, a game centered on a young boy (go on…guess his name) who loves to build things. It's expected to hit the App store in the next two months.

"The quality pressure is high," Rovio head Mikael Hed told Finnish television. "We want to maintain the high standard Angry Birds fans have come to enjoy."

The game's based on "Casey's Contraptions," a property Rovio confirmed it had acquired earlier this week. Whether it will have the same sort of Rube Goldberg-esque puzzles is still a mystery, though. You can catch Casey's Contraptions at work here.

"The gameplay is a perfect fit in our arsenal with its approachable, fun and highly addictive take on the physics puzzler genre," said Ville Heijari, Rovio's VP of franchise development. "We are currently reworking the title to enhance it, and getting ready to re-introduce it in a true 'expect the unexpected' Rovio style launch to an even larger audience."

Hed also hinted the game will include some educational elements, though he didn't elaborate on those.

The departure from Angry Birds is a risk of sorts for the company. That franchise has been downloaded over 1 billion times since its release and has become a true pop-culture phenomenon. Last year, it helped Rovio post more than $67 million in profits on revenue of $106 million.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/angry-birds-team-reveals-next-project-215414014.html

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Global 2011: Five iPhone physics puzzlers to topple Angry Birds from its perch

Angry bird family growsImage by haikugirlOz via Flickr
Everyone with an iPhone or an Android phone has heard of Angry Birds by now. According to the sales charts, more than a few have actually played it. Part of the game’s appeal is its simple controls and physics-minded puzzle scheme that has players firing various kinds of birds at structures to squash pigs hiding within them. But Angry Birds isn’t the only game that does physics well, nor is it the only iPhone title that uses slingshots, living projectiles and smashed enemies to score you points. Below we’ve compiled five iPhone titles that will push your physics knowledge and puzzle-solving skills to the test, both with and without flying characters.






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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Global 2011: WSJ’s iPad 2 story deflates some “lofty” expectations

Photograph showing Apple Newton hand held comp...Image via Wikipedia
Yep, it's another iPad 2 rumor story, this time from the Wall Street Journal—except this one seems as focused on lowering expectations for Apple's next-generation tablet as it is on hyping its new and improved features.

The reportedly in-production iPad 2 will indeed add "at least one" camera for video chat, the anonymously sourced Journal story claims—raising the possibility that it won't get a rear-facing camera for recording HD video, like on such Android-powered competitors as the Dell Streak 7, the Motorola Xoom, and the LG G-Slate.

The new iPad will also be "thinner and lighter," but the display may "disappoint customers" hoping for a "significant improvement" in resolution, the Journal reports.

While the current iPad's display resolution of 1024 by 768 is nothing to sneeze at, earlier rumors had it that the new iPad might get an ultra-dense, double-resolution screen, similar to the "retina" display on the iPhone 4.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_technews/20110209/tc_yblog_technews/wsjs-ipad-2-story-deflates-some-lofty-expectations


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