New active content for Kindle: Hidden Expedition: Amazon + Nonogames

NEW ACTIVE CONTENT FOR KINDLE

Hidden Expedition:
Amazon.

  The image on the right caught my eye last night, and the game that it's from reminds me of the old text games with clues to be picked up and used except that this is more visual.  The image was in color, and of course the Kindle readers (K2, KDX, K3) are not.

  I liked the quality of the b&w images though, and the lead example is from that set.

  It already has some good customer reviews (8 out of 9, with 5 stars).  The Product Details section shows a July 12 release date, but I hadn't been taking note of games for Kindle recently because they're not yet available for international users.  But this looked interesting.

  Hidden Expedition®: Amazon™ has been popular in other editions, and Big Fish just announced the launch of the Kindle edition.

  Businesswire's press release describes the game:

' ...players join the Hidden Expedition team as they search for a missing professor in the mystical world of the Amazon jungle.  With a tattered passport as the only clue, players embark on an adventure deep into the rainforest, exploring cities, temples, and ruins while unlocking the secrets of an ancient yet advanced civilization.  The game features 19 beautifully rendered hidden object levels and four puzzles to challenge the mind. '

  VentureBeat's assessment:

' Hidden Expedition is a hidden object game, where the goal is to search through scenes to find items.  The graphical detail on the Kindle — even though it is in black and white — looks pretty cool thanks to what Big Fish Games was able to do with the latest E-Ink Pearl technology behind the Kindle’s low-power screen.  Each scene has been remastered for the E-Ink display. '

Also new, a Logic puzzle for Kindle
Nonograms is designed for logic and number puzzle lovers, per the Product Description, "simple yet challenging" with the goal of uncovering a hidden black and white pattern.  It has three difficulty levels, for "beginners and experts alike."
  Hints can be requested, and there's an optional time clock. The maker,
Metalgrass Software, says that those who like sudoku and similar number grid puzzles will especially enjoy these.

There are many new Kindle apps at the Active Content pages and you'll see them when you click on either of the above.  These two were chosen as examples because they are so different and will attract different groups.


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite

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  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
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Newer tutorial and other apps + unusual e-books

FOREIGN LANGUAGE VOCABULARY TUTORIALS AND OTHER NEWER KINDLE APPS
  Apologies to those outside the U.S. who can't access these yet.

  Italian, French, Spanish

Brain Bump is the middle game seen at the left - a "Literature Trivia Game" 'for book lovers.'



I'll also note Jumble 200 because though I mentioned this earlier in a Kindle-games article, this one has 200 puzzles rather than 10 or 50, and I was struck that, with 13 customers reviewing it, Jumble 200 has 4-1/2 stars out of 5.

  On that page you should see, in case you'd missed them earlier, a few free popular Kindle games just before the reviews.

WHILE browsing these, I ran across an interesting edition of a the ESV Study Bible, which has 287 customer reviews and an average customer rating of 4-1/2 stars out of 5.

  "[It] combines the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV Bible text.  The result is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published--with 2,752 pages of extensive, accessible Bible resources."
  As one with an interest in historical sites, I noticed the unusually detailed illustrations such as the one on the right.  Here's the enlargement with readable text.

App Savvy.  This one caught my eye because it is a marketing-programming guide to creating apps and has 5 full stars, with 13 reviews.  The one review not rated with 5 stars has 3 stars and says, "Interesting book that is written for the non-programmer and the programmer, who has the technical abilities but lacks the marketing skill to peddle his wares..." and headlines his review with "A good book for a new Mobile Noob."

Earlier articles on Kindle Games
Chess, Word Search, Panda Poet
Every Word, Shuffled Row (both free)
Flip it! and Tic Tac Toe (ratings increased)


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's),   DX Graphite

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Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or highest-rated ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

Below are ways to Share this post if you'd like others to see it.
-- The Send to Kindle button works well only on Firefox currently.

Send to Kindle

(Older posts have older Kindle model info. For latest models, see CURRENT KINDLES page. )
If interested, you can also follow my add'l blog-related news at Facebook and Twitter
Questions & feedback are welcome in the Comment areas (tho' spam is deleted). Thanks!