The Infinite Arcade by Tinybop 4+
Make & play video games.
Tinybop Inc.
Designed for iPad
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- $3.99
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Description
Design and share video games! Make endess runners, pinball machines, mazes, text-driven adventures, tower defense games, and more. What can you imagine?!
Make & play your own games! Share them with friends!
Make adventure games, platformers, lander games, pinball games, ball and paddle games, text puzzlers, and mazes. Create your own characters! Make games with zombie mobs, hot lava, disco bricks, crystal geysers, trampoline tiles, oil slicks, wandering stars, and more.
"Infinite Arcade makes it dead simple to make your own video games." — WIRED
*** Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice ***
Infinite Arcade is a game construction kit. It’s the fourth app in Tinybop’s Digital Toys series which includes the iPad App of the Year, The Robot Factory. Digital Toys apps are designed to let kids create anything they can imagine.
MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES
Start quickly with a classic game to build on. Or invent your own! Create levels with terrain blocks, obstacles, hazards, enemies, and more. Make your game small or massive with lethal boundaries or magic passageways. Control gravity to make characters walk or float. You decide how many lives they get.
CREATE OR CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER
Create your own ninja or ball. Pick character colors or add a photo and special effects. Or choose one of six unique characters or balls: Chompers, Jellyclops, Inky Brains, and more! Each has their own skills, strengths, and weaknesses. Be wise with your choices.
TELL STORIES
Add words and thought bubbles to tell a story. Post signs, clues, and secret messages to help your character out. Add all kinds of sound effects: laughs, boos, cheers, and farts! Write your own messages for the end of the game: Super bummer if you lose. You are the champion if you win!
PLAY YOUR OWN GAMES
Let the gaming begin! Can you play as well as you make? Now’s the time to see. Run on a travelator, jump over hot lava, swim through water, and find the victory portal. Attack zombies, evil snails, and electromagnetic cats. Collect all the gold coins and glittery skulls. Is your game too easy? Go back and make it harder. Set the high score record!
SHARE & SAVE ALL YOUR GAMES
You have your own video game showroom. Stockpile all your games, give them names, pass them over to a friend to play.
FEATURES:
+ FREE gamer guide with tips and hints. Download The Infinite Arcade Technical Manual in your app or at tinybop.com.
+ Original artwork by Roza Gazarian, Holly Graham, and Jeanelle Petrillo.
+ Original sound design.
+ Open-ended construction kit with no rules. Curiosity is rewarded.
+ Multi-user system: each child gets their own avatar and showroom to save their own creations.
+ Fun for all ages.
Privacy policy
We take your and your child’s privacy seriously. We do not collect or share personal information about your child. We do not allow any third-party advertising.
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About
Tinybop is a Brooklyn-based studio of designers, engineers, and artists. We make toys for tomorrow. We’re all over the internet.
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Psst! It's not Tiny Bop, or Tiny Bob, or Tiny Pop. It's Tinybop!
What’s New
Version 2.2.0
Faster. Stronger. More fetching & updated for iOS 16.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
We’ve played so many games that we feel like we could create our own—and now we can, all without coding classes or complex tutorials. With this ingenious educational app, it's easy to become a designer. Imagination rules as you build characters, worlds, and stories for one-of-a-kind games meant to be saved, shared, and—of course—played.
I love it, but about the update...
I LOVE this game. It was amazing, and I had a million projects, but when it it an update, ALL my progress went away, and I was in the middle of one I worked really hard on, so i was very disappointed. I still love the game, and don’t get my wrong. The update is very cool, but I would appreciate it if you could possibly spend some time to make sure this doesn’t happen to other customers.
Developer Response ,
Oh no!! We're so sorry to hear that. Your games and creations should have saved over in the new update! Could you please email us with some additional information so that we can figure out what might have happened? You can reach us at support@tinybop.com. Please make sure you did not delete the app, any users, or accidentally create a new user with a blank profile. Thanks!
Infinite frustration
It’s like someone put 0 effort into this. First off, you can’t “create” your own games, you just work with the tools presented to you to design basic levels, so the title lies to you.
Second, you can’t even create levels because the basic mechanics are mildly frustrating at best. When you tap on a surface to place a block, the block almost never gets placed where you want it to go, and erasing+placing is a really annoying experience. The controls for most of the characters are TERRIBLE, but not like you are going to play any fan-made levels anyway, because most of the ones in the so-called “hall of games”, are just filler created by the producers.
The menu system is also awful, if you play a level it automatically goes to the top of the selection so it is really hard to keep track of levels since they are always moving around on the menu.
But the worst offender IMO is the fact that the text bubbles straight-up DO NOT WORK. there is a absurdly low text limit on all of them, and if the filler text is too long you straight-up cannot use that variation of text bubble. When one of your key items is broken your know you have a problem.
Terribly sorry if i offended any producers, but this hot-garbage excuse for a mobile level editor has really got me steamed.
Do not reccomend to anyone who likes to have a useable app.
App Privacy
The developer, Tinybop Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Tinybop Inc.
- Size
- 122.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh
- Age Rating
- 4+, Made for Ages 6–8
- Copyright
- © 2023 Tinybop Inc.
- Price
- $3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.