WeSpot = New iPhone Kids Favorite
My experience so far is that kids like the iPhone. My daughter likes it a lot – the big screen, watching things react when you touch it, things like the Moo Cow instrument apps, and most of all so far … Real Artist. She always gets a big, big laugh out of horrifically distorting pictures with it. Now she’s got a new favorite though.
WeSpot is a new app for the iPhone that brings the age old ‘spot the difference’ between two pictures concept to an iPhone game. The game is as simple as you’d expect – fire it up, turn your iPhone into landscape mode, and either start a new game or continue a saved one. Then just look for – usually quite small – difference between the two pics, and tap the spot where you see a difference. WeSpot gives you instant sounds as feedback on whether you tapped a correct location – and has quite funny noises when you get it wrong. I think my daughter likes it better when we lose on a new level, just so we can hear the ‘waaaan waaan waaaan waaaan’ loser noise.
The game has only a few settings, for things like how much time you’re allowed to try to solve each level, whether you want it to save your progress on exit, and whether to have sounds on or off. It’s also pretty challenging – the differences are more and more tiny and obscure as you advance through the levels.
WeSpot is worth a look if you have kids or if you just like simple games yourself (I definitely do). It’s available now via the weiPhone source, which is:
http://app.WeiPhone.com/installer/
Tags: WeSpot, spot the difference game, iPhone native apps
Is it just me or is that repo not working?
I wasn’t crazy … the repo was down. Looks like a refresh this morning populated their repo – so I was able to download it.
I will try wespot, thanks for the review.
how old is your daughter? i have a 3-year-old who is crazy about his iPod Touch. I blog his experience and some tips for parents, reviews of apps that we purchase, here: http://iPhoneAndKids.com
let me know what you think : )
iPhoneAndKids – my daughter is 5.5 (that .5 matters too!). She is well into lots of stuff on the iPhone by now.
Like your site. Very good stuff.
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