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The Font Game from Johno Boardley, Justin Stahl and Kari Pätilä is in the App Store approval queue, due out any day. It’s a single-player, quick-fire font identification game in which you race the clock to name 30 typefaces in a multi-choice format. The beautifully designed interface makes liberal use of H&FJ’s Whitney family, which is a welcome change from the usual Helvetica. I’ve played with an early beta and even then the subtle animation effects and slightly non-standard UI made for a very handsome product. I’m sure it’ll be a big hit.

“Know Your Weak Points!”, a poster designed by Olly Moss for episode five of A Life Well Wasted, “the internet radio show about video games and the people who love them”. I really dig Olly’s personal wordmark too, derived from four letters of the famous Hollywood sign. Clever. (via Tiny Cartridge)

This fantastic-looking (and fully licensed) C64 emulator app for iPhone by Manomio has been rejected for violating the SDK’s rule against running emulated or interpreted code on the device. Such a pity, given Apple’s reported excitement about the project at the outset, and the number of similar apps already for sale in the App Store. Think of the in-app purchasing possibilities! I would give pretty much anything to have Bruce Lee in my pocket. (via John Gruber)

Superb animated intro to The Beatles: Rockband, launching September 9th. The parallax effect in the page header is a nice touch. (via Steven Frank)

The Default.png splash screen from Shaun Inman’s 8-bit iPhone strategy game, Horror Vacui, pays homage to the killscreens of old. He elaborates on this and other technical approaches on his blog:

I knew going in that this intentionally glitchy screen was going to cause confusion (and it already has) but the smile-in-the-mind it gives players who are in the know makes it worth it.

Monopoly, remixed by Andy Mangold:

Monopoly, in spite being the classiest of all board games, unfortunately is packaged just as boringly and uncreatively as every other garbage board game on the shelves. So, I decided to repackage it… turning the class up to 11.

(via Patrick Wang)