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RunPee goes mobile with a new iPhone app
RunPee, the website that tells you when it's safe to take a bathroom break during the movie you're watching, was a big hit when Lee wrote about it back in May. If you're a RunPee fan who's been wishing for a better, more practical mobile method of using the site, you might be interesting in the iPhone app. Now you can simply whip out your iPhone before the credits start and see when it's time to go relieve the effects of that large soda. The best part about the iPhone app is that it will allow you to quickly check RunPee from the bathroom and read the site's quick synopsis of what you missed, so you can jump back into the movie when you return. Don't worry about spoilers, though, they're obscured by default so you won't accidentally read them before it's time. Sure, it's kind of a novelty, and definitely not the most useful thing you're going to have on your phone, but using it even once would be fun.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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DeoWulf said 11:02PM on 7-05-2009
I didn't really think going to the site beforehand and writing down times was very useful, but this certainly would be.
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Josh said 2:14AM on 7-06-2009
Great. So people will now have a legitimate reason to have their phones out during movies. Wonderful.
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fanpages said 7:47PM on 7-16-2009
My 6 year old thinks "iPhone a-pee-pee" is a much better name.
BFN,
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(1upGamers.com)
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