iPsychedelic
Swain Valasek | Sep 8, 2009 Entertainment
(52 votes, average: 3.15 out of 5)
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Feeling the need for some mindless release? Stress of the day getting you down? Can’t promise iPsychedelic from Ubik will set you right but it’s such a passive experience you just might feel a boost in your personal chi afterward. This is a purely visual app and stripped down to the absolute bare bones. There are no options of any kind and no user interface. In fact, apart from a simple splash screen, once the app loads you literally see nothing but a blank screen. When proper balance has been achieved in your synapses, you begin tracing 1 or more fingers around the screen. A brilliant orb follows each finger, leaving a ‘wake’ in the liquidy plasma field along with a few stars that follow the flow. Smooth color transitions occur periodically to keep your ocular-centric medtiation moving, changing and rotating. There is no BGM at all but as expected iTunes music is fully supported. Truth be told, most folks will be bored with this app within minutes but there are those out there who simply enjoy this type of experience far more than others and would find the dollar price worthwhile. If I were to make suggestions it would be to include an airy, ambient backing loop, include the accelerometer function somehow, maybe to induce more color changes or change viscosity in the ‘liquid’ and definitely would be cool to have an ‘attract mode’ where you just sit back in conscious reflection and watch as it does its own thing randomly.
Version reviewed – 1.0
Reviewed on – iPhone 3GS OS3.0.1
iTunes Link - iPsychedelic
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- Chill, pretty trippy
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- Little trippier now as a dynamic orb follows your touch
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- Nice effects with 1 orb but is there more?
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- Why yes, multi-touch is supported for up to 5 fingers/orbs!
Tags: $0.99, casual, psychedelic, Swain Valasek, trippy
(4.80 out of 5)