John Bedford (Modojo): Earlier this month, Zynga published a new type of game on the App Store titled Clay Jam. Constructed entirely from colorful stop-animation clay models, Clay Jam has enjoyed a high position in the App Store charts since release.
By good fortune, in turns out that developer Fat Pebble's offices are located just a stone's throw away from Modojo's UK home in Brighton, England. We decided to pay the team a visit to talk about their experience of creating and releasing Clay Jam, working with Zynga, and the future plans of developers Iain Gilfeather, Mike Movel and Chis Roe.
JIG: Squishy and malleable, colorful and in great peril. That pretty much sums up the creatures in Clay Jam, an arcade game from Fat Pebble that lets you save a world of clay creatures from the clay nemeses that are gobbling them up like tasty appetizers. You've got the power of physics on your side, however, rolling down hills, squishing small monsters to gain mass and make a mad leap from the island to knock the big bad guys away. Heroic.
Chris Buffa (Modojo): Here we are, the best iOS games of the year. We started with a list of 200, whittled that down to about 100, then the gloves came off, as we fought to include certain titles and said painful goodbyes to others. The result is a snapshot of 2012, the 50 iPhone and iPad games that stood out the most. That said, join us each day as we make the countdown. On that note, it's time for games 40-31.
Pocket Gamer: We've all played with clay or a clay-like substance at some point in our lives, whether in art lessons while wearing an apron, at the kitchen table on a sheet of paper, or in some less controlled environment where you can make a horrible mess.
