Tokyo Metropolitan Government bureau of citizens and cultural affairs released an iOS/Android app “Mamore! Shuuma & Elme”(mamore = protect), which is the first ever game app to pass on consumer information by local government in Japan, according to the release [J].

The game itself is a typical puzzle game, where you need to line up three balloons to erase. The app has a notification bar at the top, like mobile ads, to inform heads-up of several anecdotal deceiving cases.

まもれ！シューマ＆エルメ

Genre: Games, Puzzle, Kids

Language: EN

Devices: all

Price: free

Version: 1.0.3

Artist: 東京都生活文化局

Released at: March 25, 2013

User Rating (all version): no rating yet

User Rating (current version): no rating yet

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via MyNavi News

Tags: Android, iOS, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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A 2008 movie on Niconico Douga was dug up by users and buzzed now in Japanese. It is just the play movie of the popular Playstation 3 racing game Gran Tourismo 5(GT5), but displayed on very old Hitach carbon tube monochrome TV.

via Internet Watch

Tags: Japan by Akky Akimoto
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Hatena user id:aike released a quite geeky parody of The Typing of the Dead. The Typing of the Dead, arcade zombie shooting game by typing keyboard fast was already geeky, but on this new browser game, you hit zombies by typing regular expressions.

The zombies have own names. When you type a regular expression on the text box, the zombies with the matched name are damaged. To hit more zombies in single action, you need to find the common regular expression of them.

If you type the widely matched regular expressions like “.*”, all zombies can be repelled easily, however, too simple/short expressions would eliminate human beings, whose names are showed in green letters.

id:aike explained how he made it [J]. The JavaScript is only with 370 lines.

Tags: Japan by Akky Akimoto
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Phyzios [J] has released an iOS game application “Battleship Craft,” which uses its own particular physics engine.  Download is free.

“Battleship Craft” is a naval battle game which fuses the fun of manufacturing with real action.  Users use various weapons and block parts in the 3D space to build an original battleship and can engage in battle with other users.  The battleship’s actions use Phyzios’ particular physics engine, and real physical phenomenon such as buoyancy, water resistance, gravity, and so on, are replicated.  Depending on things like the method of fixing screws and the rudder, and the combination and arrangement of parts, the ship’s movements at sea, ebbing and flowing, speed, rotation, stamina, and the like, will change.  In “Battle Mode,” matching takes place via Ad Hoc or Game Center, and you can challenge users from all over the world in real time depending on what’s going on that morning or evening or whenever.  Furthermore, the background music in the game offered by the Marine Self Defense Force (Performance: Marine Self Defence Force Band) uses the marching songs “Battleship” and “ShikiShima Warship”

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Tags: Social game, VSMedia by Chiho Komoriya
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Bandai Namco [J] has opened “Banadroid” [J] specially for the Android market.

“Banadroid” is an application marketplace with application distribution, billing and registered user information for Android apps managed by Bandai Namco Games.  Currently it’s still in beta service, so there are only 12 available titles, but from now the lineup is planned to increase.  Presently available are the major titles “Pac-Man,” “Ridge Racer,” “Katamari Damacy,” and free applications such as “Hanabi Tatsujin” (Fireworks Master) and “Panda To Nameko” (Panda and Mushroom).

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Tags: Android, News by Chiho Komoriya
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