I like the concept of Piclings from Fabrication Games. Taking real life photos to create endless amounts of platforming levels is a stress-free way for people like me who don’t want to build levels from scratch. That’s Piclings innovative mechanic. From the video, there appears to be two enemies to avoid and coins and presumably a rainbow butterfly token to collect. The character design is cute enough. However, 3 characters seems like the tip of an iceberg for any platforming game. To me, Piclings is a great idea of a game and maybe the developers need to see some support to fully flesh out the concept.

Fabrication Games, who made Piclings, is no newcomer to game development. They won an International Mobile Game Award for Innovation for Kodo Evolved and picked up other awards along their 10 years of developing at IGF, Into the Pixel, and Nokia Innovation Challenge. Yes, some developers were part of Jadestone before, but that’s just semantics.

For those who have seen or want to discover platforming levels in everyday life, Piclings is available now for $0.99 to snap photos, jump around, and share.

Piclings official website

While I mean no offense, the rather mediocre iPhone/iPod Touch game Free Zombie Hero – Kill Angry War Ninja — an experimental title which puts together the most sought-after search words by gamers — has gotten a new update that just may make the game worthwhile. From new levels to new power-ups to support for further iDevices, Fabrication Games are proving that they’re not simply going to lay back and let the game be drowned out due to bad reviews.

Instead, they’ve gathered up feedback and added a massive free update. Here’s the full list of new features:

* iPad & iPhone 4 Support

* HD graphics for iPad and iPhone 4 Retina Display

* New Ninja Type: Robot ninjas

* New Power Up: Bullet Time

* Support for Tilt Controls in Addition to Touch

* Improved Performance

* Improved Graphics (Text, Textures & Models)

* New Level System

* Bonus Levels

* New Sound Effects

* New Level Balancing

Now how’s that for a content upgrade? Keep it up, Fabrication Games!

[Fabrication Games]