I’ve been excited about playing Firewatch ever since Campo Santo first revealed it. Every trailer since then has looked absolutely stunning and the screenshots are basically excellent fodder for wallpapers. Combine that with music by Chris Remo (who I loved in Gone Home) and the involvement of Panic (One of our favorite studios out there) and my interest grew multiple times. Over the last few days, I’ve managed playing Firewatch twice while trying to consume every little bit of dialogue that has been carefully placed in this world and have come out impressed for the most part. Firewatch is a…
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Today we’re wrapping up The Highlight 2015 with the Editor’s Choice of 2015. The following apps are the Best Apps that we saw,tested, and used over the last 12 months. Every single one of these apps managed to leave us very impressed. We’ve carefully picked our favorite apps across the following four platforms: iPhone Apps iPad Apps Mac Apps Android iPhone Apps Timeline Timeline is a phenomenal news app for iPhone that puts the new in context. There’s so much happening around you these days and quite often, you find yourself in a confused state, not knowing…
What we know today as ‘The Highlight’ here on Beautiful Pixels actually began back in 2012, when we started highlighting our favorite apps and games that we’d seen over the last 12 months. As part of this series, we’ve been showcasing the best UI Animations seen in apps and other platforms. It is always great to see how designers and developers innovate on something most people wouldn’t usually pay attention to. Over the last years, this has been the most popular post in the series and today, it’s time to bring you our picks of the best animations from 2015.…
Apple TV as a platform has finally come into existence after years of everyone waiting and we are quite pleased looking at how apps have turned out. There have been big name games like Guitar Hero Live and even unexpected app releases like VSCO and Tumblr. Here are our favourite Apple TV apps and games that you need to download on your shiny new black boxes. Transistor When Apple said they were serious about games on the Apple TV, I was ecstatic when they revealed Transistor. Transistor is one of my favourite games of all time with its sublime…
The Dialogue is something we started almost two years, but unfortunately have been very inconsistent with it. This changes today. We’re relaunching ‘The Dialogue’ with a new long form feature, a first of many lined up for this year on Beautiful Pixels. We spoke to Michael Simmons of Flexibits at length about calendar apps, Apple as a company and its influence, UI Design, HockeyApp, and more. This interview was conducted little over a month ago and is the longest article we’ve published here on Beautiful Pixels. There’s a handy Index below for you to jump into topics of your choice…
The Apple Watch has been out in the hands of the users for just about 4 months now and Apple has already demoed watchOS 2 at WWDC 2015, due to be released in a few weeks. We haven’t been able to cover Apple Watch apps properly since April since we hadn’t managed to get our hands on the Watch yet. That changed a couple of weeks ago and we finally got our ourselves an Apple Watch (with a second one on its way). Thanks to this, we decided to put together a list of our favorite Apple Watch apps so…