![]() Hold it up and turn to your left, and the background will react, as if you’re looking through a portal. Your device’s gyroscope and accelerometer are put to fun use as well, causing the screen’s background to shift whenever you move your device. For example, molding is always done in an outdoor setting, and you’ll hear birds chirping and other sounds of nature while that wheel is turning. There are some nifty graphical effects and sound used throughout the game. It appears to be an odd glitch, and as I said, it only happens infrequently. So instead of placing a painted stripe exactly where I wanted it, or shaping the clay in the place where I touched the screen, it would happen below that spot. Occasionally, as my pottery was spinning or when I was painting my creation, the app would respond about a good centimeter below the spot where I touched the screen. I never experienced any crashes with the app, but I did have one odd issue. You’re invited to add your own work to the gallery through a quick tap inside the app. iDreams, the app’s developer, has created a thriving fan community where talented potters are constantly posting their latest pieces for others to see, and there are some genuinely amazing pieces there. I often found that if I wasn’t pleased with how an order had turned out, I’d sell it at auction instead, and then try again at fulfilling the order.īeyond the game, Let’s Create Pottery can also be used as a terrific simulator for creating pottery, and its subtleties ensure that no two pieces ever turn out quite the same. It also gives you a bit of a “sandbox” feel in that you’re free to take orders or sell your work at auction. The game portion continues to progress this way with ever-harder pieces for you to create, essentially teaching you the basics (and eventually the complexities) of pottery-making while adding enough objectives to make it not feel like a tedious tutorial. If the customer likes what they receive, you’ll get a nice little payment via your Inbox. If your work is a customer order, instead of auction you can choose to simply fulfill the order. That amount is then added to your available funds, which you can spend at the in-app “store” (it’s not a real store no real-world money required) to acquire new materials and paint colors and whatnot for future pieces. A simulated auction screen lets you watch the dollar amount grow as your work fetches a particular sum. When you’re satisfied with your finished work of art, you can sell it at auction. From here, you select colors, paint brushes, or other decorations to add to the piece, and again, you’re given a star meter to show how close you are to getting it right. The imperfections and micro-cracks on the surface are nicely done and realistic in appearance. Spin it to appreciate it from all angles. ![]() After a few seconds, your piece is good and hard, and you can take it out and view it. Once you’re happy with your creation, you send it directly to firing, where you watch it sit in a furnace for an abbreviated hardening session. The stars disappear when you’re getting it wrong. The stars track your progress as-it-happens, so as you mold your clay, you’ll see more stars added when you get closer to the desired piece. Ultimately this part of the app is basically about matching shapes, but there are stars beneath the photo that indicate how you’re doing at achieving the right shape (and paint job). It can be a painstaking process, which might frustrate some iOS players, but I appreciated the realism. Pottery is an art of subtlety, and the app smartly conveys the sense of delicacy and finesse required to work a lifeless piece of clay into something beautiful. Slide your finger along it upwards, and it gets taller. The pottery wheel spins on its own your job is to massage it into shape. Each order includes a photo of the kind of piece the customer wants, and your job is to mold and paint your work to resemble the photo as closely as you can. There’s an in-app Inbox that’s part of the game, where you are sent orders from customers around the world of increasing difficulty. The crux of the game is the app’s first stage, where you start with a small lump of clay and spin & mold it. The process is streamlined, of course, but the app definitely gives you a good sense of what it’s like to work with clay. Part creative tool, part game, Let’s Create Pottery is a sublime, fascinating app for iPad and iPhone that simulates the art of pottery creation.įrom molding and casting to painting and selling, Let’s Create Pottery takes you through every step that professional potters use to create art.
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