My Secret Hideout
By Zarfhome Software Consulting
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Description
My Secret Hideout is not a game. It is an interactive toy... or rather poem... or artwork...
My Secret Hideout is a wacky, creative thing set in a treehouse. It’s not like any app you’ve seen before. Play around with it!
Drag leaves down and attach them to the tree. Every time you add a leaf, the description of the treehouse grows and changes. The changes are random... aren’t they?
- Watch the treehouse grow, or just play with the leaves! Fun for your fingertips and for your mind.
- Approximately a googol possible combinations!
- Save your favorite treehouses; mail them to your friends!
- (A googol is a big number. Honest. Look it up.)
- (Maybe it’s more like ten million googol combinations, but hey, what’s a few orders of magnitude.)
My Secret Hideout has no goal, no score, no trophies. Explore it, or play with it, until you find a result you like. Will your treehouse be simple or complex? Can you guide it? What will you discover inside?
- “...it shares some of IF’s appeal — the visionary access to a place of someone else’s imagination. There are a lot of zarfian ideas here.” -- Emily Short, emshort.wordpress.com
- “At first I was thrilled to find a room with fresh cheese, but I discovered I couldn’t add more detail without losing the cheese room.” -- playontap.com
- “Oh, this is weirdly fun” -- Goob
What's New in Version 1.1.1
- VoiceOver support!
- Sound effects now obey the volume/mute buttons on all devices
- Fixed a rare bug where changes were not saved on exit
- Fixed a couple of display glitches
Customer Reviews
Inventive and engrossing
I hadn't expected this "game" to capture me so completely. Unlike anything else on the iPad, this app allows you to visually create a secret treehouse hideout, dragging rooms onto your tree. As you do this, the app creates a story along side your treehouse. The story relates the details of how the rooms look, what's in them, and much more. This may not sound that enticing, but the effect is magical. It helps to a great extent that the game is extremely intuitive and the text is very, very well written and even hypnotic at times. Relaxing, yet challenging, with tremendous replay value. This is the kind of unique experience I had in mind when the iPad came out. It's a little remarkable to me that more people don't know about this game. This is the first of dozens of apps that I've downloaded that I've taken the time to actually write a review for. It's that good.
- $2.99
- Category: Entertainment
- Updated: Oct 20, 2011
- Version: 1.1.1
- Size: 1.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Andrew Plotkin
- © 2011 Zarfhome Software Consulting, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
