Theory Test UK 2013 Free

This free app will give you a taster of what you can expect to find in the full version of THEORY TEST UK from Driving Test Success. Sample a selection of the official DSA questions and answers, learn from the official explanations and try your hand at a mock Theory Test.

But remember, this app contains less than 10% of the official revision questions, so it’s essential that you download the full version if you want to stand the very best chance of passing your test FIRST TIME.

SUITABLE FOR:

•  Learner car drivers in UK 
•  Learner car drivers in Northern Ireland 
•  Learner Motorcyclists in Great Britain 
•  Learner Motorcyclists in Northern Ireland

THIS FREE APP CONTAINS:

• A sample of questions from the OFFICIAL DSA Theory Test revision question bank suitable for UK car drivers and motorcyclists, valid throughout 2013.
• Modern and easy to use interface.
• Sit a trial Mock Theory Test with immediate feedback.

Theory Test UK 2013

To celebrate the launch, download the brand new Theory Test app for just 69p, saving you 65% off the RRP (usual price £1.99).

 Hide It Find It Free

Play Hide It Find It, the addictive multiplayer app that lets you and your friends take it in turns to solve devious hidden object puzzles. Find objects hidden in a photo or picture, then send challenges to your friends. See who will be the fastest finder!

Just a few of the features:

Hide It Find It

All the fun of the free version, but with premium features:

• additional coins to unlock extra objects straight away
• totally ad-free forever.

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Click here to launch the questionnaire. We look forward to your opinions and we thank in in advance for helping us to shape the future of AGK.

The Game Creators have released four new sound matter packs to enhance your games. Professional sounds can make the difference between a good game and a great game.

Sound Matter Pack 17 – Creatures

A range of creature sounds to help give your game a voice. The pack includes lots of real-world animal sounds like cats, dogs, cows etc. plus monster effects like zombies and vampires, and cute vocal sounds for virtual pets or furry little animals.

The sounds include groans, warbles, attacks, retreats, and many obscure animals including slugs, bats, snakes, spiders, rats, dogs and ducks amongst many others. You’ll even find zombies in this pack.

Sound Matter Pack 18 – Explosions

Every game needs a good explosion, and this pack is where you’ll find them. One of the most crucial sounds for games, this pack includes lots of types of blast from vast atom bombs to underwater blasts, fireworks, incendiary weapons, impacts on wood, metal, cloth and clothing, and pain sounds. A wide selection of basic explosions are included too to give an action game or shooter lots of essential variety.

Sound Matter Pack 19 – Environment loops

A set of seamless stereo environment loops to set the scene for any location. A range of rooms and environments are included, both interior like a laboratory, factory, airport, shopping mall, etc. and exterior like parks and city traffic. The loops are 8 seconds long, and there are 40 of them in total.

Sound Matter Pack 20 – Strategy

A mix of effects for a real time strategy or turn based games. Sounds include movements of different unit and simple weapons, GUI noises, switches and sirens, clock ticks and game pieces being moved and taken. Some crowd cheers are included too and effects for miscellaneous actions useful in an R.T.S. like zoom in/out. With over 70 sound effects, you are sure to find the ones you need to complete your game.

Go to the Sound Matters page to see the full list of effects, play medleys of each of them, and to order your packs. You will also find bundles which include these new sets as well as many more, and even a bonus pack if you choose to take the whole collection!

This pack expands on the vegetation assets seen in pack 55. In this new selection there are 50 types of trees, 50 shrubs and 5 different grass sections. Using these in your game will make outside scenes look more realistic and natural. These encompass palm trees, lush green foliage, forest trees and fauna.

The Vegetation Pack 2 (Model Pack 71) is available to purchase now from the FPS Creator website, where you will find full details of this great expansion pack.

If you’re keen to make a Doom style FPS then this pack might just be what your game needs! This model pack developed by Rolfy from the TGC forums includes ground based and winged demons. The ground base demons come in four flavours;

• Grounded bone
• Grounded red
• Grounded grey
• Grounded reptile

And the winged based ones do too;

• Winged bone
• Winged red
• Winged grey
• Winged reptile

In additional to these textured versions you have access to video textured character demons with fiery eyes and glowing wings.

• Grounded/Winged bone videotexture
• Grounded/Winged red videotexture
• Grounded/Winged grey videotexture
• Grounded/Winged reptile videotexture

These Demons are fast and have random fly, run, walk and melee actions. The winged characters can melee attack from both air and ground. They will randomly throw exploding fireballs at the player.

Winged Demons will drop and stay grounded, following the player into corridors and other low ceiling areas using simple trigger zone logic. The characters are fully animated (1,348 frames) with alternate idle animations including standing, squatting and eating randomly. Transitional animations mean the characters move from sitting to standing, standing to flying and so on.

The Hellbound Demons Pack 70 is available to purchase now from the FPS Creator website, where you will find full details of this great expansion pack.

The Ultimate Challenge. Seven developers compete for seven weeks to create apps that utilize the  latest Ultrabook convertible hardware along with the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK and camera to build the Ultimate app prototype.

The second Ultimate Coder Challenge is over and the results are in. Lee’s 3D virtual conferencing app hasn’t taken the top spot in the competition, but it has received astounding feedback and accolades along the way. In an arena that essentially takes the 7 teams that Intel consider to be the best around the globe and pits them against one another, the result is 7 magnificent products. We congratulate Sixense for taking the crown this time around with their educational puppet theatre.

The Ultimate Video

Bob Duffy of Intel has this to say on the Intel challenge blog:

“we asked the developers to showcase their work in video form with at least 2 videos in the competition.  Many took this to heart and gave us some strong video reflections of their work week to week.  However,one challenger stood out, and one particular video stood out from the challenge.  We’ve seen this video played over and over again in Intel meetings and even heard it referenced multiple times by external developers seeking support.  That video is Lee Bamber’s during week 3 of the challenge giving us a first glimpse of his 3D web conferencing application while explaining how he solved head and gaze tracking from within his sample app.”

The Ultimate Blog

Again, Bob Duffy was highly impressed with the professionalism of all the contestants, and once again Lee has been recognised for his willingness to share his knowledge with the global community of developers:

“We have been impressed with code sharing and transparency of the process by all. This was an extremely tough category to judge and in the end we have a tie.  Both Lee Bamber and Infrared5 dug deep to document their process, explain the ups and downs and showcase their solutions…Lee Bamber’s posts were extremely detailed, explaining his process and work week to week. While Lee mostly wrote his own algorithms he demonstrated each week his progress in capturing depth data to a point cloud, tracking the head and gaze, and challenges to compress the depth and voice data. Their posts are seen as invaluable and a great step toward helping educate a broader set of developers in Perceptual Computing overall.”

Congratulations again to Lee and all of the teams in the Ultimate Coder Challenge. You can read the full report from Intel here.

Keep racehorses and pet ponies out of the burger production lines as you play as a meat inspector in this topical Android game.

Scan the burgers as they pass and if you spot one with a hint of horse then tap it to make sure it doesn’t end up in a kids school meal or on the shelf of a popular supermarket. The management will allow the odd burger to get past you but fail three times and it’s game over and you’ll be sacked.

So come on and help preserve the country’s beef credibility. Will you be the best inspector?

The Cogs of New AGK Technologies

The definitive way to ensure new technology is always injected into the product is to create a demand for it. Rather than wait for the demand to come to The Game Creators, we are creating it ourselves. You have seen a number of apps and games appear over the previous months, with more to come. Each one of these apps requires new features, and these requirements are added to AGK. Facebook interactions, notifications and many more features are already in the Beta that is available to all AGK owners in their Order History. We are close to cementing these in a full upgrade release shortly.

Game Center commands for iOS are now in AGK.

A feature pivotal to iOS releases is Game Centre, Apple’s social gaming network. Game Center enables your users to track their best scores on a leaderboard, compare their achievements, invite friends to play a game, and start a multiplayer game through auto-matching.

Push notifications for iOS and Android

Turn-based games have had the monotony of waiting for your opponent removed with Push technology. Make your move, and your device will tell you when your opponent has responded; there is no need to constantly monitor. Seen in popular games such as Words with Friends, you can now find this feature within AGK, and already integrated into Hide It Find It.

Bug Fixes

As we progress, fixing the errors reported is of course implied. Improved image loading and slow loading on iOS was a specific problem for many users, and this is now resolved. You can review current issues and report others on the bug board here.

Memblock commands

A much sought-after feature from the DarkBASIC Professional stable is memblocks. These are now to be a standard part of the language, allowing manipulation of media, data and more.

Object alpha blending depth sorting, Object Instancing

As the 3D aspect of AGK continues to progress, some of the features that simplify and optimise your games are making their way into the language. Being able to utilise alpha blending fully and respect depth sorting is essential, and is working as expected in the 3D engine. Instancing – which allows you to optimise your environment where models are reused – is also implemented.

Get device language

In a global world and a global programming language, it is important to know the language your users are speaking. This will be possible in the next release by interrogating the language of the device, and allowing you to finetune the user experience accordingly.

iOS Additional services

Users of certain strains of device come to expect specific features as standard. To this end, we are looking at including device-specific commands for developers who wish to encompass them. The services we are currently reviewing are:

Lost in a world of school paperwork is ‘Mr Dork’ your doodled stick man who needs help to escape the reams of homework sheets that are his prison. Mr Dork is very sensitive and has to avoid many dangers across 63 levels of play. You draw lines for him to walk and jump across so he can reach the rip in the paper where he can make his escape. If Mr Dork touches any objects like pencils, protractors, staple removers and pencil sharpener blades then he’ll die and be reset to the start of the level. Other dangers include doodles that come alive, such as a sketched gun that shoots bullets and UFOs that fly around.

Game level difficulty slowly builds as you play through and you progress is remembered between each game sessions. Playing the game is a cinch, hold down the left mouse button and then draw a line for Mr Dork to walk on. When you’re happy with the line, single click a point to where you want Mr Dork to walk to. If you press the right mouse button all drawn lines will be cleared so you can plot a new course around the level. Some times Mr Dork has to navigate up the screen, you can press the space bar to make him jump up. If there’s a line above him he will land on it. Good luck helping Mr Dork escape!