Bobby Carrot: Lite Version, More Levels Coming, and Giveaway
posted by arn on February 16th, 2009 8:44 PM EST in Exclusives, Free, Puzzle, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Lite Version
FDG Entertainment has released a Free lite version [App Store, free] of their excellent puzzle game Bobby Carrot Forever [App Store, $7.99]. We reviewed the full version of the game in January and found it to be a "must have" for puzzle gamers:
Bobby Carrot Forever is a level-based puzzle game that requires you to navigate obstacles in order to collect all the carrots and reach the exit. 60 levels provide a refreshingly challenging puzzle game that offers well over 15 hours of gameplay. This game is easily a “must have” for fans of the genre and is also highly recommended for others.
A 1.05 version update for the full version was recently released which adds a number of features that were requested by our forum members. These include a "swipe" control method, auto flip screen and some minor bug fixes. The developers have also let us know they will be quickly following up with some additional interface tweaks in a 1.1 update (quicker level reset, level select) "soon".
More Levels
Following the 1.1 release will be another free update which will add a 7th World called "Surreal" to the full version of the game. This 3-star difficulty world will introduce a new music track and will be accessible with a "secret entrance". This should add more play-time to the already 15+ hours of gameplay.
Win a Copy
FDG Entertainment is giving away 5 copies of the full version ($7.99) of the game to TouchArcade readers. Only available for U.S. residents:
1) Play the entire Lite version and count all carrots you must collect
2) Send an email to win@fdg-entertainment.com with the following information: the Subject "TouchArcade" and the body of the email with the number of carrots from step #1 and your name or nickname.
3) Send the email within 24 hours of the posting of this article
4) Winners selected at random from pool of correct answers. Winners announced within 48 hours
Winners:
The correct answer was 51 and the following readers won: DonBurns99, Fleabag323, hollerbee, Ryan, and Kevin. Congrats!
App Store Links:
Just submitted my answer. Hope I win!
Hope we can submit more than once, had to revise my carrot count.
what did you revise it to might i ask…..j/k
Entered, thanks for the chance to win. ^ ^
Sent the answers.
This is an awesome game. Hopefully I can win. :O
Just sent mine too~
Love the atmosphere of the game. (Luv the music!!)
Wish I can win ^^
Sent an email earlier. *crosses fingers*
I know I would play through this since it's fun and well made.
just entered
> TouchArcade said:
> The developers have also let us know they will be quickly
> following up with some additional interface tweaks in a
> 1.1 update (quicker level reset, level select) “soon”.
With regards to the last part there, about being able to select a level… THANKFULLY!!
That's what this game is currently desperately lacking.
I accidentally stood on the end-square in one level before I'd collected all the coins I wanted to and whoosh, game over! Or rather, level over!
If I want to attempt to play that level again, I have to delete the game from iPhone, then re-load it back on, and then start the whole game over again from the beginning.
Not good… :'(
@BrettArchibald,
the level select feature is activated for each world that has been completed. You can re-select the world and then choose the level. BTW its not as complicated as you describe it in 1.05. You can just replay a world without de-installing/re-installing the game
@ Future777
Aah, right, OK, if you say so… I think… I'm basing my comments on my experience with the lite version, which I just tried out this morning.
I think it was on maybe the 2nd "level" in the first "world", and when I landed on the end square I was whisked off to the 3rd level, and I could not see any way to immediately go back and play the 2nd level.
Are you saying I have to complete the whole of that "world" first, before I can go back and play level 2 of world 1?
And is this just in the current version, 1.05? And will the upcoming version 1.1 allow me to replay a level BEFORE I finish that world?
Sorry for the confusion – I have literally just had my first experience of Bobby Carrot this morning.
The level select is only available in the upcoming 1.1 and you have to beat the world first.
Yay! I won one of the copies! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!! I wanted this so much!!!!! I will review on app store and constantly check for new info!!!! Looking forward to new world.
(all of them!) THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone know what happened to the Lite version? When I checked yesterday (2/19,) it disappeared from the App store.
they pulled it due to some interface/tutorial issues. It'll be back soon from what I've been told.
arn
Yes, we pulled it from the store. The controls/interface feedback was really bad and we don´t want to give a wrong impression to people who just briefly look at the game. (Lite versions with non-instant fun tend to have a really short life time cycle on the iPod)