For a hobby project, my brother Alex and I wrote a game for little kids called TowerSmash.  I wanted to write a game, well really more of a toy, that was truly meant for little kids.  So  many “kid games” on the iPhone seem to have little buttons all over the place and levels that load and things you can and can’t touch and scores and bleeps and then boom the game is over.  Um, did we have fun yet?

I wanted something that was open-ended, and that kids could just play with.  What sprang to mind was how all kids seem to endlessly ask grownups to build towers out of wooden blocks so that they can smash them down using cars or their hands or whatnot.  So that’s what we built.  A toy where it’s easy to create towers of blocks and watch them tumble if they’re not balanced, and then easy to throw shiny balls at the blocks to knock them off the table and off the screen.

Get it from the AppStore – $1.99