Grab your uDraw Game Tablet ($70, sold separately and required for play) and jump into SpongeBob’s world in this collection of mini-games. Like WarioWare, this game contains over 100 challenges that last no more than five seconds each, and require extremely fast reaction time. You must lean the tablet left or right to avoid a fly swatter, or tap the tablet to pop balloons. If you can successfully complete 20 challenges (which takes about 10 minutes), you can unlock a new set of puzzles. The games take advantage of the uDraw touch tablet, for example, you might scribble to uncover a hidden drawing, or draw a path through a maze. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.
Designed to work with the uDraw GameTablet (required) this is a screen adaptation of the board game where you sketch and guess clues. Content includes 3,000 clues, for up to four players or teams, and games can be saved for long-term play. The clues range in difficulty level. There are three game modes: Pictionary; Pictionary Mania; and Free Draw. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.
uDraw Studio is the drawing package that comes bundled with THQ’s uDraw GameTablet. You can paint, draw, and color with nine tools. For example, you can draw simple lines with a pen, then add character with the airbrush tool or chalk. Sliders and toggles adjust opacity, size and paint drop-off. The Line Tool lets you draw perfectly straight lines and the Paint Fill tool lets you fill in areas with a color. Content includes 100 stamps, 15 post-processing effects including black & white, sepia, negative, and neon, create endless customization options, and the ability to zoom in up to 400% for the fine details. Created for THQ by Pipeworks Software. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.
Turn your Nintendo DS into a serious artist tool with this new $20 cartridge from Nintendo. Using the DS stylus as a pencil or paint brush, you can choose to work through a series of ten step-by-step tutorials, or freely draw using the selection of pencils and/or paint tools. There are two parts: Art Academy First Semester and Art Academy Second Semester, both of which were previously available as Nintendo DSiWare downloads. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.
This maze game app is part of the “Learning is fun” game collection. Your goal is to help the UFO find the exit by following a predetermined path with your finger while avoiding being electrocuted during your trip. It features 60 levels divided into easy, medium and hard. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
Available in both free and full versions for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, Drawing Den is a coloring program that offers eight pictures that you can color, and there are no stamps or undo options. Other features include the ability to quickly share a photo and a “stay within the lines” option that you can toggle off, in case you want to make a mess. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
It used to be when you wanted to sketch out the plans for an invention, you grabbed a napkin. The iPad equivalent is Doodle Buddy, a multi-touch sketching utility. Content includes 24 backgrounds, including white, black and several for word games like dots and tic-tac-toe; four drawing tools and an infinite color selector. There are also 80 tiny stamps, and the ability to import a photo from your photo library. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
This open-ended drawing program gives you the best of both worlds — free one finger scribbling on a blank screen, or coloring on one of 50 traditional-looking coloring book pages. There is a color palette with 20 common colors,12 stickers and eight pen sizes. You can also toggle on/off voice instructions, and it is easy to save work, continue works in progress which are presented in the startup menu, or import pictures from your photo library. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
Turn your iPad into an easel with this drawing experience. Content includes just two brush sizes (a bit limited), 60 colored pencils that look realistic on the textured paper, 70 crayon colors and four types of sprinkles. The sticker library includes 140 cars, animals, trains and toys; all of interest to children, fully moveable, and resizable with a pinch or a pull. Other features include one-touch saving to your photo library and the ability to email or tweet your picture in twitpic format, as long as you have existing accounts in place. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.