Ten days to play. Welcome seven days to play your
Weekly mobile game review program.
I'm Sam. And I'm Edwin, each week, we try
to turn on the display, a new mobile gaming, this week, it
fell to me and I chose fan. Cade, the fan-made arcade band
Cade is a 2020. Well, we'll get to describing
exactly what it is, but it's 2020 game from Martin magni, I
would describe it as a racer, A platformer Puzzler and like a
creation tool. Really, all of the above.
There's a lot going on really fascinating with what that kid
is trying to do the fan made okayed.
It is a fan-made arcade and that is very literal means that you
can actually get in there. It's all in just one little app.
You can go in there and Sample all the different games that
people have made using the fan Cade system.
Can I read you the description from the Apple App Store?
I know it's your favorite part of the whole episode.
Yes. Clay more than a 55 tie hero
play more than 50 games and 1000 levels in a quest to unlock
stars and unlock worlds, then visit the okay to pay, even more
games or make your own. Here's why here's why you will
like fan, Kate. I like that.
Direct to the point. Tell me what, I like, simple fun
games, make your own games play offline and play for free, all
that. Kid games are made with the app
itself. Hmm.
Any player can become a Creator. That's pretty cool and many
have, and that's how we keep adding so many new games.
That's it. I like, I like how it went from
like marketing speak to. Hey, you can do this, I believe
in you. All right, into very personal
little note. Exactly.
I appreciate it. Yeah.
So Edwin, how would you describe The gameplay that is involved in
fan Cade true to its name. It is very arkady for a game of
such an application of such depth.
I do have to admit that, I feel like I've not done a good job
delving into the very depths of it but I have played it a few
times. There's a the car game, the
racing part which is well let's talk.
Well this is talk about what we played so far, so it is a racing
game. There's a kind of a puzzle game,
there's a little bit reminds of Monument Valley where you've got
to in 3D space rotates, the platform or evil Island around
in order to navigate your person to move and then you go to do
the little Sly D-Block elements to unlock and clear the path for
them to move forward and then mercifully more truck racing
games, which is really fun which I played a bunch, there was a
Cairo is it cut the rope Style game where you had to swing
swing around? I didn't get on too well with
that game but with this is pretty great because if you
don't want we want enjoying a certain game, no pressure.
Boom, move on to the next one. It'll be a completely different
completely different game. Although kind of having the same
look so much like a real arcade, if one game is not tickling your
fancy, if you're if you get bored of tap, Kappa.
Yes if you want to tap our then you can go move on to what as
Crazy Taxi and if you don't like what was that, car game that we
played where you had to accelerate to make your back
Wheels. I mean make your front wheels go
up a little bit and then break a little bit to make your front
wheels. Go forward, it's kind of like a
trials game. Yeah, I played a few of those
games but I'm blanking on. Oh, is this the part of the, of
the episode but we go through our back apollonian.
That is if I don't feel like it's gonna be too long, I think
it's going to be too far back but yeah I mean those kind of
like size Guerrilla games where you have to use a little bit of
physics in order to get the car, just at the right angle.
In order to go up a hill and all that sort of stuff, like the
fact that, that those kind of games are in.
This are in fan Cade, and you can actually make them as kind
of blew my mind. Right like that.
Like you said, they have these Monument Valley, ask little
levels, which I think is more kind of like Fez.
I don't know if you've played Fez who is like this 3D video
game one game. And I think it's kind of based
on that as well, but the fact that you can actually go in
there. See the levels on how it's
actually being made. It's really mind-blowing on this
little on what like this this app can achieve its really,
really cool and I think even if you're not going to be playing
the games from it, I think you should definitely check it out.
Yeah, I agreed Sam. What was your favorite game that
you found in the fan? Cade's fan-made arcade.
Okay, so I like I like the more simpler ones because I kind of
want to do a simple person that to yes, but I kind of wanted to
see the how they made it, right. Mmm.
But there's like a whole bunch. There is like, what was the one
that I really looked at? There was like a plumbing one,
where, you know, like the If you're familiar with pipe dream,
right? Which is like a classic
old-school game where It shows you and like this grid.
Sections of pipes that are not connected and then you have to
sort of rotate them in order to make the the pipes, all sort of
fit together and then the water then flows through it.
Right. Sounds a bit like a pipe push
Paradise, but it's it's not really like pipe, push Paradise.
It's more just like a straightforward type puzzle
game, but the fact that you can also make something like that in
this, In this game is really wild.
I thought very interesting. The fact that it has like this
system that you can use to create it just a different
variants of the games that you can create from it.
I thought it was just amazing. Yeah, that was my favorite.
What was your favorite Edwin? Oh, I was totally down with the
the car physics game. They I was pleased to find a few
of those around. I was I was out hunting for
those, as you say, like it's a extreme physics version of a car
game where your The challenge is not to crash and flip your car
which you'll do very easily. We have certainly played a
couple of games like this in the past, but this was a really good
implementation of it. You've got forward and back
which were then also actors as breaks a, depending on which we
are moving. The level design was really
incredible. On some of them, there's really
smart. Taking one, get one.
You have to operate two cars or two, then it's like, Humvee,
Humvee. H2S got to operate, two of
those. Those and you need both of them
to get to a certain place to unlock a barrier.
Some of them you need to zoom really fast but slow down by the
end because you need to reverse over the finishing line, which
is actually like underneath the rest of the levels that you need
to back it up there, the tanks version.
There's one with a trailer, one with a double decker Hummer, if
you could believe such a thing. So it's a really top heavy and
then the physics change for that as well.
Yeah, it's a crazy much enjoyed all of the all of the The racing
games because they were grateful and then they have like these
little simulation type games that are also really cool as
well. But that isn't really a game per
se, but just ask just like looks really nice.
Like I found this one where you're kind of like a train
going around, this like grassy area and like the spherical
globe and it's just like really nice very well done.
Yeah, there's just like a whole you can you can go and really
deep just look, All the different Creations that people
have, and yeah, it seems to be like a pretty thriving community
of people that are actually making this stuff.
So you can also see like their name, how many people have liked
it? How many plays has gotten so?
It's like it's a little I guess, like subreddit, if you will or
like some sub-community or like a little Community around this
game, which is great. Yeah, it was a really
interesting that everyone's experience, we different much
like going to relocate whatever. Catches your eye, which in
machine is beeping the loudest or flying the most, you'll
you'll go and put your quarters into.
But yeah, like I imagined we maybe started off playing the
same game but then as you explore the rest of the world,
your body divert and played different levels which have
completely different games. Anyone, let's get on to the 3,
by 3, S 3, good arcade games and three bad arcade.
Three, stinkers, yo, what's your least favorite arcade game?
I think my least favorite. Is that Missile Command game
where? There are missiles coming down
into a city and like little thin lines and you kind of have to
set little you have to use a trackball and order to then
point to where the missiles are going to be headed to and then
you press a button and then a missile explosion sort of covers
that area and then hopefully it will cover that little line of a
missile that's coming towards the city.
It becomes very, very stressful and it becomes very difficult,
very quickly, That doesn't sound fun.
Anything with the track Bowl in an arcade?
I'm not sure. That's it.
You're right, desirable outcome? Yeah.
Especially in these days. Yeah, no.
Thank you, please. What about you?
And you've got the very big multiplayer games.
Kind of like, like, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or as the
X-Men where you can have, like, six people around and it's
right. You're just there entities,
mashing buttons running and giving points because it's like,
yeah. Well as undoubtedly found and
everyone's there and kind of kind of having a good time the
actual game itself is I don't mind.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know I got Frankie there. Yeah you just like cranking the
joystick left and then just hitting the buttons the whole
time. Yeah.
They always need to level up my arcade skills, but onto the
three by threes my first good point.
They'll this is an incredible little app.
I feel like I did not do it justice in the seven days enough
to be able to for everything that's going on because we start
off with the quest which gets you to a bunch of different
games. But then there's a whole bunch
of other things is not caves. You can build things as you can
talk about Sam. There's this amazing community
building things that you can go and play play new games all the
time. That's just, yeah, just
wonderful. Yeah, this is huge for the
bunkers happening is yeah, I cannot do a pretty good service
and around that, like I think I really need to call out the
good. That the packaging is so.
Well, done of this game, right? Like I think they definitely got
influences from like this, 8 bit operating system for game making
called Peak 08. And I feel like it's gotten a
lot of influences from there. But and what they do with this
with Van Kate is like, they've actually made that until like
this 3D concept were 3D is very prevalent and very possible even
the the programming system that they use to make those game
seems to be kind of like this node based 3D thing.
So, all of that is very interesting to sort of like dig
into and there's tons of things to dig into in this game.
If you don't like a particular style of mobile or arcade games,
you can easily quickly, find other things that might be
available. But yeah, this is definitely
worth looking into. It's completely free.
There are ads. But yeah, worth checking out in
addition to that you can go and create games, right?
That's even, even been as I didn't even have a chance for
you to delve into how to Games but it looks incredible.
Like the fact that you can use the game to build the game and
then play the game rah. That's my brain to study course.
Yeah, right. I feel like they're kind of
going through some sort of loophole, I mean, they must be
right? Like, I don't know if that's
actually permissible within like the App Store.
Guidelines. Right?
Like, I don't know maybe it is but it seems like I hope they
don't get in trouble. Gosh.
But yeah, he imagined I mean yeah, building a game on your
phone with touch screen controls, what a world, what a
world animals even? I feel like I feel like soon
that's going to be like a thing, right?
Like they have apps now where you can build complete websites
from your phone. Like there's little app called
Universe where it's kind of like super space.
But it's all like mobile app based, and you can just create
like, you know, a website on your phone and then publish it,
and anyone can get like, get to it, it'll be on, like, a public
domain. Like, you can buy a domain
through the app as well. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
But like, yeah, I see that for a programming as well.
Right? Like I see a future where if you
want an app to do a certain thing like you'll have an app
that gives you like these building blocks to like create
an app for yourself. Yeah, yeah.
Which I think would be cool. On to the bad points, Edwin.
Well, let's see. It did have a nitpick, but the
animations between levels is pretty busy aggressive.
You get the old five and a quarter inch of the five and a
half inch floppy. Disk animation.
They're just a lot of movements that I didn't particularly
enjoy. That says, the silliest nitpick
f up. Oh, the inter level animation is
too much, but that in stand out to me.
And when I think about this about this app right now, I go,
oh boy, those those animations are little much.
Am I being right to to delicate about this?
Am, do you notice this? I don't know.
I think, I think Dave made really good concessions and to
you being able to speed them up, right?
Like if you actually tap your finger down on it actually
speeds through it very quickly. Hmm, right.
So, I feel like they've made those calls correctly.
That's it. But I think that's fair.
I don't think that's a negative nitpick, especially if you're in
the mood to just like play some arcade games, right?
Like just a to get to the next level or like, The complete out
the, the series of puzzles. Yeah, mine is also like a really
minor nitpick as well. Like, I feel like the the
programming language while. It's really really cool.
I can see it being super tedious, to actually build out
complex node structures to do the logic that you're looking
for. In order for these games
actually work, I opened up one game that I thought would be
relatively simple and it was like this huge tree of nodes
that are all Did and it's one I think while node-based you know
like these programming things are really cool to like get you
going and you know, you don't need to actually write code in
order to make code node based programming.
Like if you're it's really hard to get into someone else's brain
to find out like which part of that node tree does what like I
feel like that's the most difficult thing about out.
This end so I can see the programming while it's there and
Powerful to use and people are making really cool stuff from
it. If you're actually going to make
a game from it, I can I can feel like it's going to be very, very
tedious to do so. But yeah, like I said, a very
minor nitpick but it's just makes you realize how
complicated logic and game programming kind of is right
side and see when seeing it drawn-out.
He's just kind of makes it even more apparent and that's really
it for me. And when like you otherwise I
highly recommend this game, there's like tons to really dig
into it could even be like the start of something that gets you
into. I mean, right?
Like if you find out such a, you know, like I really like these
things and how it's being manipulated, you can start with
this and see if you like it. Then we'll Find 7A rating for
found Kate. The fan-made arcade - Evan, a
rating is 5 days, and that's a good five days.
I think the is where I really stopped seeing as a good five.
But yes, carry a walk. The reason why I stopped after
the fifth days because I was really looking forward to
getting into more of the programming aspect.
Of it. But once I found that it's kind
of really hard to manipulate as well.
Like on a phone screen, I can see maybe if like, if you're
like an iPad with a, with a, with a pencil that might be a
little bit better, but also like there isn't any sort of guided
tutorial around the pro Bank, programming aspect around it
inside the game. Like you have to go to a
separate YouTube video to find out how it works in.
That's where it kind of lost me. But overall, I highly recommend
it five. Of seven days.
Nice. Yeah, it was a, is a 4 out of 5
for me. Again, the games of will find
out of 5, this isn't 5. What is this?
This is what happened is to play.
This is why I should be playing the game while talking with each
other podcasts. Are you on edge?
When do you want to tell me something?
Are you CDC, quietly? Five days to play.
Yes, is better than seven days to play, right?
Is the like, the scheduling's, a bit of a nightmare.
Because it's in this strange, Cadence of every five days you
have to record There's a four out of seven, the games are fun,
but my brain likes a continuous experience or to sleep at least
like a I don't know, I just want to play the car games the whole
time we were supposed to can do, but definitely worth checking
out free to play. I think it's 99 cents to unlock
for ad-free to unlock for 30 days or more you can do for a
year Family, dog cage. Fan KD does what it says and now
it because is it before lowered is it befalls to me sure it
before super fast super Sam to the both of us to select the
next game. Edwin, I know that there has
been an influx of Apple arcade games.
Oh, and I think it is our responsibility to try and get to
as much of that as possible. So Edwin, you have seven days to
play cozy, Grove from the Apple arcade.
Oh, that's a lovely name. I feel cozy already.
Cozy, Grove cozy, cozy cozy Grove, I can't read the tag line
for it because it's not. Oh let's see.
Yeah. It's I can't read the tag line.
Does it have a tagline for you? Maybe it doesn't know.
In this new Apple arcade UI, you don't get to find out what the
whole the tagline is casual. That's all, you know.
Yeah, let's just casual cozy Grove.
It looks like a nice little like farming collecting game so let's
check it out. I feel like the app icon is very
incongruous to the little preview video that's playing on
top. Mmm, right.
I agree. If I feel like the app icon
could be on some hypebeast street wear or like a ND house
label. Oh yeah, totally.
But then the little preview video look.
So very cutesy and hand-drawn anyway.
Right? What to make of these Strange
parallel, parallel worlds, find out next week when we play cozy
Grove from a kid before we go Edwin do you ever think of the
week Top Chef is back Sam now forget are you a top chef her or
you do you look down on my mornings?
I'm a British baking show her and sometimes an occasional
MasterChef ER the British version of the American version.
I think the British version MasterChef I mean MasterChef
alternative and Most recently final table, which is amazing,
but I think they canceled it. It was it turned out to be the
final table? Was that the Nephilim?
Haha. Yeah.
That is an fx 1. Okay.
I'm not seeing it. Yes, I will admit.
If you if you, if you've been used to the weight British
baking show going to Top. Chef is a little jarring.
Should we say it's a little? Grating is little very dramatic.
It's just a different style, right?
So there's the he do it but I'm enjoying a lot there in Portland
this time around. All your favorites are back
Padma Tom gayoung they're all there as the judges.
Bring me bring me a little Bit of Joy.
Each week tonight, has it been a long time since they were back.
Or is it just the next year? I don't know.
I don't keep up with Top Chef. Yeah, it's been.
It's been longer than usual. I think.
Just because obviously, covid hit, they were trying to figure
out what does top shape look like in a covid world.
So, it's interesting to see the concessions.
They've made by the kitchens are larger.
They don't have the dash round Whole Foods now because they
just preview the app and have it delivered to their door with
them. Nice product placement and stuff
like that. So yeah, there's a few things
have changed but it's still a fun.
I still enjoy a lot to look forward to watching it on a
Friday. Friday Friday.
Evenings Top Chef is back season, 18 17 or 18.
Wow that yeah already. Yeah.
That's amazing. I'm using go in a long time.
Yeah. And I've seen them all nachos.
You brag about that a lot. But yeah, there she combined
Top, Chef and Survivor, at some point.
I feel like if you're a survivor Murph and you're probably a top
chef and as well, which will sting, I am a survivor fan is
too strong a word but but if you found out that there was a show
that combined the two and it's the producers from the to
wouldn't you watch this like if Boston Rob was on Top Chef,
whatever that means, yes. Okay.
I agree. Oh no, I'm so much stuff as I
met at least of a Survivor fan that I know who posted Robbie's,
Everyone. Most famous Survivor players of
all time, Sam. And you mean, okay?
We're not. So I was, I think it'll be Top
Chef. Streaming now on the rubric
please on Bravo. Apps Bravo.
Okay. Yes, I'm broke one of those apps
but, you know, you can just buy the season pass for week, 20 of
your American dollars, my thing of the week.
I'm gonna do this really quickly.
Edwin is the Xbox app on the iPhone, the Xbox app?
Yeah. But hang on a second.
Listen Xbox app for the iPhone. Yes it's just literally just
said okay so my brain took a second to process that because
yep well I mean you have to find out It does.
So you can connect your Xbox series X from your Xbox app and
stream the game play from your Xbox series, X through your
phone. Oh, you could.
So, you can stream 0x Box series X to your iPhone x to your
iPhone, access your about Xbox sex to your iPhone.
Ex. Yes.
I mean, how this works, you use the Xbox controller?
The Xbox series This controller so you can sync your, you can
sing any kind of any Bluetooth controller to your phone.
But because I have the, the backbone one which has
instantaneous connection and no lag.
You can use that as your controller and have your Xbox
streaming to your phone and I've been playing like, you won't be
able to get the best performance from like games that take like,
you know, quick reflexes. So games like war zone.
Or Pub G aren't really going to work well, because you need to
be kind of quick on your toes. But for games like Theme
Hospital, I mean or two point hospital, or what does that game
civilization? Or even like XCOM where it's
more turn based. It's Kind of Perfect for it when
you get like the graphical Fidelity of an Xbox being
streamed into your phone and I thought there'd be like a lot of
artifacting, but quality is actually pretty good.
It allows me to just like, kind of stream my gameplay on to my
phone and enjoy. So, nice.
What are you playing? At the moment.
So I like to kind of chill out right before I go to bed.
And so I've been playing to Point Hospital, which is the
spiritual successor for Theme Hospital.
I don't know if you've ever but I was weak theme park.
Kind of guy. I was not a themed Hospital guy
though. It's kind of funny like you know
one of the things that you have to cure is lightheadedness and
like The people walk around with a light bulb, instead of ahead.
And the way that you cure it, as you have this machine that you
build that as one of the rooms, oh wow.
And it unscrews your headlight bulb puts it away and then plugs
in a printout of your normal head.
Wow. It's very clever.
It's very cute. Yeah but like you know that
whole theme thing where you can just sort of like build it and
then watch it go. Oh that's nice much like oh
children much like my truck - I don't try to unscrew their head.
Okay that would be illegal. I do that too.
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