Bad Hotel app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
9712 ratings )
Music
Games
Action
Music
Developer:
Lucky Frame
1.99 USD
Current version:
1.4.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 14 Aug 2012
App size: 63.95 Mb
Loved by Kotaku, Touch Arcade, 148 Apps, Hookshot, and more! Winner of a Best Game BAFTA! TIGA Award Nominated!
1. BUILD HOTEL 2. MAKE MUSIC 3. STOP TADSTOCK
"Bad Hotel is a chaotic, lovely experience... " - indiegames.com
"... you seriously need to check out Bad Hotel." - Touch Arcade
"...to understand how excellent Bad Hotel is, you need to play it. And you need to hear it...I like Bad Hotel so much Id buy it for you. Get it. Its for iPhone and iPad. Its wonderful. " - Kotaku
"Bad Hotel is a delicious treat for eyes, ears, and intellect. It’s a delightful way to spend some time in a nice comfy chair, iPad in hand, with perhaps a glass of wine and fuzzy slippers upon the feet. Bravo to Lucky Frame..." - 148apps.com
"completely awesome...Lucky Frame, keep this kind of stuff coming. " - Gamezebo
IGF-nominated Lucky Frame brings you their latest crazy musical game creation: Bad Hotel. An insane hybrid of tower defence and procedural music, with beautiful art and tons of bullets.
You are a budding entrepreneur, whose hotel is rather unfortunately located within the territory of Tarnation Tadstock, the Texas Tyrant. Your only defense against Tadstock’s army of seagulls, rats, yetis, and more is to build your hotel as quickly and intelligently as possible, using an array of increasingly sophisticated weapons.
The beautiful artwork, quirky storyline, and frantic gameplay all work seamlessly together with a generative music system, which creates original music depending on the player’s actions and decisions. The player becomes a composer, creating complex musical structures to defend their hotel. A vast variety of music can be generated, from delicate beach chillout to country
banjo techno.
Pros and cons of Bad Hotel app for iPhone and iPad
Bad Hotel app good for
The game would be better if the action stop when we drag a room.
Its a good deal for a dollar but Ive played better games for the same price.
Its a very fun mix of puzzler and rhythm game (though the rhythms are relatively passive). Best played with headphones, the sound and aesthetics are TOP NOTCH. Mechanics are solid, and the dialogue is cheeky and entertaining. Definitely worth the cost of entry!
Some bad moments
...terrible realisation. Bad UI, unbalanced gameplay, horrible sounds. Sorry. :(
nice idea. but the generated sound doesnt sound very "musical". restriction to fitting scales (pentatonic?) and implementation of basic sequencer techniques and rythmical grids could help here and improve things a lot. the way it is atm is just too random and quickly becomes annoying without supporting the overall experience.
So restrictive its actually tedious.
The point seems to make cool music with the building blocks. But the building blocks are expensive and the money gains are so slow. So the blocks never really build anything cool, and before you can the bad guys break it anyway.
Its not "tough", its tedious and repetitive.
I got this app as part of a bundle. The whole bundle with the exception of one app is garbage. This is one of the garbage apps.
Awful block placement system makes the game unplayable, even the slightest move of a finger can ruin all plans.
There are plenty of music generation apps available for iOS, and they all share the same problem: they get boring quickly. Sure, you can make some pretty cool beats, but it only happens when you get lucky. The rest of the time is wasted. Bad Hotel provides you with a goal to accomplish while you generate music. It doesnt always sound great, by thats okay because you have a great tower defense game to play while youre waiting. The story is innovative (the antagonist both funds and destroys your hotels), and the combination of two app genres makes Bad Hotel the perfect casual game.
My only complaint has been mentioned by others: the controls arent fantastic. Sometimes, when I go to place a room next to the main hotel, it ends up far away in the dirt. However, that hasnt prevented me from thoroughly enjoying this game.
