12 apps selected for "Apple Design Awards 2015" to recognize awesome design apps

Apple developers event "WWDC 15"Was held from 2 pm on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Japan Time, and iOS 9 and Mac OS X El Capitan etc. were announced, but at WWDC we chose "Apple Design Awards"Was held in the same year, and in 2015 a total of 12 works including interactive games, learning games for children, stock trading apps and work tools were awarded.

Apple Design Awards - Apple Developer
https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

The awarded applications are the following 12 works. (All prices are those at the time of article creation)

◆ 01: Shadowmatic(360 yen)
Shadowmatic for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store


Shadowmatic is a puzzle that stimulates the imagination of enjoying the change in the shadow silhouette projected on the wall by rotating and moving the illuminated object.


As in the following movie, it is a puzzle to create the shape of the shadow of interest by moving the object around.
Shadowmatic launch trailer - YouTube


◆ 02: Metamorphabet(480 yen)
Metamorphabet (Meta Morro Fabet) for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store


An interactive game where you can enjoy children and adults by changing letters to various forms by tapping and rotating the alphabet with your finger.



How you actually play will be understood by watching the following movie.

Metamorphabet Trailer (Widescreen) - YouTube


◆ 03: Robinhood(Free · No treatment in Japanese App Store)
Robinhood - Free Stock Trading on the App Store on iTunes


Robinhood is an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch compatible stock buying and selling application, and the innovative service that registered users are free of sales transaction fees. While checking service content, simple and clean UI design is also appreciated.


Since the application also supports Apple Watch, quick settlement is possible without having to take out the terminal.


◆ 04: Affinity Designer(4800 yen for Mac)
Mac App Store - Affinity Designer


Affinity Designer, also referred to as "Illustrator substitute software", is a software that can edit images of both high-performance paint and draw systems at a price of only 4,800 yen. It has the feature that it can create data such as PNG, JPG, PDF, PSD and EPS.


Full compatibility with OpenGL, Grand Central Dispatch, CoreGraphics installed in OS X, editing that fully demonstrates the performance of 64-bit multi-core processor is possible.


It is capable of professional editing and effects, it has performance to withstand printed matter.


◆ 05: Crossy Road (Crossy Road)(free)
Crossy Road for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store


A game that is addictive though simple but traversing the roads and rivers that cars and railways go and crosses with chicken and other characters. It is fresh even if I miss the point of view seen from diagonally above and the texture of the dot picture character.


The iPad version application that makes playing a little easier is also released.


The actual play screen looks something like this. You can enjoy thrilling games just by crossing the road.
Crossy Road - Gameplay Launch Trailer (By Hipster Whale) - YouTube


◆ 06: Fantastical 2(4800 yen for Mac)
Mac App Store - Fantastical 2 - Calendar and Reminders


Fantastical 2 is a calendar application with a newly redesigned interface for OS X Yosemite, a multifunctional calendar with functions that can also be called ToDo lists.


One of the major features is that it automatically analyzes the characters entered in natural language and voice input and automatically registers them in the calendar. Of course, it corresponds also to Japanese input.


Fantastical 2IPhone versionYaIPad versionIn addition to releasing the application, it also supports Apple Watch, so you can use a highly functional calendar at any time.


You can check the actual moving screen with the following official movie.

Fantastical 2 for Mac - What's New - YouTube


◆ 07: Workflow(400 yen)
Workflow for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store: Powerful Automation Made Simple


Workflow is an application that allows you to create an "application" that automates multiple tasks that span multiple applications that are time-consuming, by automatically linking multiple applications on the iPhone with one-tap.

For example, in the image below, "Walk to Coffee Shop" which shows the way to the nearest coffee shop with one tap, "Tip Calculator" of chip calculator, "Share Location" which measures the current position and shares it with SNS etc. Features such as are listed. All of these are functions realized by linking multiple applications.


It is possible to put the created Petit appli as an icon and put it on the home screen. You will be able to use the features quickly whenever you need it.


◆ 08: Does Not Commute(free)
Does not Commute for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store


"Does Not Commute" of a car game seems to be an ordinary race game at first glance, but as a genre it is a game like racing game, puzzle game, and action game.


Basically it is a game that reaches from the start point to the goal point, the difficulty level is low because only the own car first appears. However, every time you clear the stage, your own cars will appear on the screen and the number of vehicles that will become obstacles will increase, so the difficulty level will rise as soon as possible.


As the stage goes on, the road enters the chaos state.


You can see in the following movie how the number of vehicles increases from just one condition and it becomes increasingly challenging.

Does not Commute - Out now - YouTube


◆ 09: Vainglory(free)
Vainglory for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store


Vainglory says that multiple players are divided into teams and aim for victoryMOBAIt is one of MOBA type games, and it is a big point that it was optimized for touch display environment of iPad and iPhone.


It is a pattern that the flowing high-definition graphics were highly appreciated.


You can understand the contents of the game and the level of the graphics by a single shot if you look at the following movie.

Vainglory Bain Glory · Japan landing trailer - YouTube


◆ 10: Pacemaker(free)
Pacemaker for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store - Your original mix can be instantly done!


Pacemaker is a remix application compatible with iPhone / iPad / Apple Watch, which allows you to play minimal and clean screens to connect multiple tracks and play DJ. Synchronized functions of tracks and various filters are mounted, enabling a variety of playing possibilities.


Pacemaker's promotion movie introduces what kind of remix is ​​possible.

Mix Everything on Pacemaker for iPad with iTunes and Spotify - YouTube


It is also possible to remix at your convenience using Apple Watch. You can see the image in the following movie.

Pacemaker® for Apple Watch ™ - One-touch-mixing magic! - YouTube


Pacemaker's Official YouTube channel explains how to use Pacemaker and the types of filters, so it seems to be helpful as well.

Pacemaker - YouTube

◆ 11: Elementary Minute(120 yen)
Elementary Minute for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store


Elementary Minute of the quiz game has an extremely simple UI that answers ◯ or × to the problem displayed on the screen by swiping the screen up and down. I can enjoy the normal mode and the rush mode with the time limit of 5 seconds and after analyzing the trend can be analyzed.


Because it corresponds also to Apple Watch, it is perfect for crushing. However, it seems that it supports only English and German at the time of article creation.


◆ 12: jump-O(free)
Jump-O for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad currently on the iTunes App Store


"Jump-O" of indie type game is a game which guides himself displayed as "◯" to the goal point while avoiding various obstacles, the operation is simple such as inclination of iPhone main body and screen tap only. Although it is a minimal game in which the operation is also simple in black and white screen, it is a game drifts the atmosphere that seems to be addicted to it.


It is possible to check the state of actually playing the game with the following movie.

Trailer :: jump-O for iOS - YouTube