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apptivity

Hot Wheels or Batman

What an iPad is does not need an explanation anymore and neither does an App; Apps are available in huge numbers from the web for download to Smartphones, iPhones or iPads, and among those thousands of Apps there are of course also lots of games.

Apptivities from Mattel now introduce a combination of those game apps from the web with activities in the real world; you use real objects via an App in combination with an iPad.

Hot Wheels in turn have cult status, Hot Wheels are cool - and have now arrived in the Computer Area, too. The cool red car - or each of the other available ones - his equipped with a conducting base for use with the iPad and you can explore the Hot Wheels Test Arena. The game offers three levels: Cool Drifts, Totally Crazy Jumps and Search and Defeat. Aim of the game is to be accepted as a driver for the Hot Wheels Team. The Hot Wheels App iCars must be unlocked and is then free for download. The product range offers different boxes with different cars; all are called by cool names like Power Rev or Bone Shaker or York So Fast or Drift King.

Of course the system/principle can be adapted to other topics, too - there is an Apptivity for Batman and one for Monster High and there is even a Baby Toy called Apptivity Monkey: You put the iPhone in a halter unit in the tummy of the plush monkey and then you touch the screen with the monkey’s pawns in order to hear stories, songs and funny sentences.

Apptivites are interesting hybrids, not really a game and not really a toy anymore; but in any case they are one more step towards the complete combination of electronics and classical game and toy elements.

Players: 1

Age: 4+

Time: variable

Designer: not named

Art: not named

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Mattel 2012

Web: www.mattel.com

Genre: Game unit for iPad and iPhone

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Hybrid of toy and game

Several different vehicles or pawns available for an APP

App must be downloaded to the iPad via Code

Compares to:

iPawn, Jumbo

Other editions:

Apptivities Batman, Fruit Ninja, Monster High etc.

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0