Today’s Apps Gone Free: Fox Eats Chicks, Wide Sky, Anim8 and More

Gobble up birds as a sly fox, train a hedgehog to become an acrobat, and hone your animation skills with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

Deep Town: The Twin Candles (Full) ($4.99 → Free, 462.0 MB): Find your way back to the surface in Deep Town: The Twin Candles. It’s for fans of hidden objects games.

A brilliant young engineer has been invited to Deep Town, a massive structure located on the ocean floor. What was expected to be an amazing opportunity to learn turns into a terrifying adventure, as there’s a vampire hiding in the now-abandoned town. Turns out the engineer was only hired due to his delicious blood type. You must help the young man on his quest to be healed from vampirism while finding a way back to the surface. The game includes 37 scenes, 10 chapters, 11 mini-games, and two difficulty settings.

Deep Town: The Twin Candles (Full) is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 5 ratings.

Universal:

Fox Eats Chicks ($2.99 → Free, 14.4 MB): Gobble up all of the unsuspecting birds in Fox Eats Chicks. Fans of platform games.

Fox Eats Chicks places you right at the top of the food chain. Take control of a cunning fox, and move swiftly through each level gobbling up every bird in sight. Not all of the birds are in view, so you’ll have to search around and use your stealth abilities to hunt down each one. Move quickly because your rating is based purely on speed. The game includes a total of 85 levels.

Fox Eats Chicks is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 18 ratings.

Wide Sky ($0.99 → Free, 43.6 MB): Train a cute little hedgehog to become an acrobat in Wide Sky. Fans of physics puzzlers.

Your hedgehog is armed with ropes of different flexibilities and lengths. Latch on to the clouds and swing him into orbs to smash them to bits. A clock will begin to countdown once an orb has been smashed, and you must try to gather all of the star bits that burst from it as quickly as possible. The game includes 40 challenges, 11 ropes, six power-ups, stat tracking, and a whole bunch of fancy animations.

Wide Sky is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3-star rating with a total of 1006 ratings.

Anim8:3D Character Animation Made Easy ($4.99 → Free, 208.1 MB): Hone your animation skills with Anim8. It’s for beginners and hobbyists.

Anim8 allows you to animate five fully rigged 3-D characters including bipeds, a dinosaur, and a quadruped. Models have up to 30 points of articulation, and can be manipulated with simple gestures. Onion skinning allows you to see previous poses and plan out your next poses. You’re able to record and share your animations via Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

Anim8:3D Character Animation Made Easy is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 5 ratings.

Blox 3D City Creator ($2.99 → Free, 228.1 MB): Create amazing cities from scratch using only taps in this fantastic entertainment app. It’s the perfect way to unlock your child’s creative side.

Based on the bestselling Blox 3D apps, this latest iteration opens a whole new world of creativity. Your child is able to start off with a blank canvas or they can choose from a variety of pre-built cities. Designing new structures and adding animated objects is as simple as tapping on an open spot within the world. Blox 3D City Creator includes everything from basic building blocks to animated vehicles. Your child can also change the time of day within their little world.

Blox 3D City Creator is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 9 ratings.

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