The next generation of football games comes to apple devices

The next generation of football games comes to apple devices

The next evolution of tactical football games is here, courtesy of Gray Cooper Media and AppyNation. The pair have announced the launch of Fluid Football, with is now available from the App Store for the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone.

The game was developed by Chromativity, who worked in collaboration alongside professional commentators Richard Keys and Andy Gray.

The arrival on the market of fluid football heralds the arrival of a whole new kind of football games which offers players an unparalleled, complete freedom when working their way through a series of challenging scenarios. They can use any combination of real tactics that they deem to be suitable and will ultimately allow them to score and win the game.

Designed to appeal to any football fan’s inner strategist, Fluid Football puts real-time tactical decision making right at the player’s fingertips. Faced with a variety of real-world scenarios, players plan their strategy in real time via an overhead view of the pitch, stringing together passes, out-pacing defenders, setting up pinpoint crosses and any one of hundreds of possible strategies.

Players can devise complex sequences and strategies via simple finger swipes to direct their team’s actions to line up a shot on goal. The camera then switches to a 3D ‘player’s eye’ view in which the player must successfully direct their shot on target against the goalkeeper and defenders.

“We’re thrilled to be bringing such a unique tactical football title to the App Store,” said Andy Gray, Director, Gray Cooper Media. “We’ve been very closely involved with the game’s development from day one and we’ve invested a lot of our personal experience into the game to ensure it has as much authenticity as possible. If you can do it on the field you can do it in Fluid Football.”

Fluid Football is now available for free from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id524972269

 

 

Win tickets to the FA Cup final with ipadio Facebook app

Win tickets to the FA Cup final with ipadio Facebook app

The Football Association is the governing body of British football, and cover a vast portfolio of the beautiful game that ranges from grass roots to the elite teams in the Premiership.

Social Media plays a vital part in the engagement strategy of the FA, and thanks to the work they are now doing with ipadio’s VideoInPage service they are providing a unique way of putting fans right in the heart of the game.

The FA Cup ipadio Facebook app allows fans to make their own commentaries on goals scored, as well as giving them a chance to win tickets to the FA Cup Final. The commentaries are to be judged by John Champion from ESPN and the winner will receive the much sought after tickets.

Charlie Boss is the FA’s marketing manager for the FA Cup and he has said that using the ipadio’s VideoInPage service is one of the most engaging and easiest ways to get involved with user generated content that the FA has seen for a long long time.

Mark Smith, ipadio CEO notes that, “ipadio strives to make the task of getting rich content online as simple as possible, so while our audio products make podcasting no more complex than making a phone call, VideoInPage is that same principle applied to video. This takes away the barriers to upload and allows organisations to easily place their people in the centre of their online presence.”

ipadio’s VideoInPage (VIP) service allows organizations and brands to collect user generated video from their stakeholders with no more complexity that pressing ‘record’. The VIP service works by detecting the presence of a camera and allows the user to record directly into the webpage. This video can then be moderated (or not!), embedded into your website or intranet, cross posted into other sites (eg. Facebook, YouTube), and automatically alerted to registered viewers.

The VIP service is white labelled, a key feature for corporate users, so they can brand their video with their logo, their messages, moderate and control where the video ends up. It’s these features that resonate with corporates – ipadio’s VIP provides them with the means of socializing their organisations – spreading audio and video content around their networks – but with the necessary control and brand protection.

Also, because VIP is cloud based and doesn’t rely on expensive camera crews and post production (brand elements, intros and outros are all applied automatically) the costs are significantly lower than typical in-house video production.

As with all ipadio services, VIP is provided as Software as a Service – set up times are minimal and the recorder and resultant videos are typically embedded inside the customer’s websites or intranets.

Why not give The FA Cup ipadio Facebook app a go yourself and see if you can win a ticket to The FA Cup final?

Support England with iPhone England Football Rattle App  A new England Football Rattle app for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available to download from Apple’s AppStore.  This new app means you can now support the England football team the way your dad and grandad used to…. but with an iphone.

It works just like a normal football rattle. You wave your iPhone or iPod Touch as if were a football rattle handle and the rattle sound is created. The rattle will speed up or slow down according to the speed and vigour with which you wave your device. It really is great fun.

England Football Rattle App can be found here.