Last week, we let you know that Rebuild [$2.99], the city-building time sink that we loved in our review and on our podcast, would soon be getting support for the original iPad, and today that update is now here. Rebuild was originally an iPad 2-only title, due to some technical limitations that the developer explained on her blog.
But, since that initial release, she has toiled away to lower the RAM requirements for the game which now allows it to be played and enjoyed on Apple’s first iPad. There are further enhancements to the visuals for those of you who have been playing on an iPad 2, as well.
Also explained in that blog post is how difficult it would be to add Game Center support since the game was written in Flash and she’d have to dip into some Xcode-only stuff in order to patch the online service in. However, this has also been tackled on the development side of things, as Game Center integration with leaderboards and achievements is also available in this latest update.
If the technical limitations of your original iPad were preventing you from enjoying this excellent title, then now would be the time to spring into action and see what you’ve been missing out on with Rebuild.
I've really enjoyed minomonsters. The only complaints are the length and the level cap of 20 but as the devs are going to be updating this (hopefully a lot) I can see this being a huge hit.
Agreed John. The Devs seemed to concentrate on a quality core to start with even if it's light on content.
Other games like Monster Ranch/Geosociety and Monster Galaxy have tons more monsters, trading, evolutions, storyline, etc but they suck IMO.
I really hope we see evolutions starting at level 21 (maybe why they capped it at 20), universal support with iCloud syncing, trading and Game Centre integration.
But if anyone's considering it, definitely a fun game as it is right now and it's on for free right now.
After a 20-hour flight, I clumsily bought LostMoshling instead of this, and wondered why it was so different to the way the review described the game. Woke up and realised it wasn't the same game...haha. Looking forward to playing the real game now, after I put down GTA3, that is...
nice graphics!
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