Instagram-Like Camera App Uses Game Center for Achievements
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100 Cameras in 1 is like Foursquare crossed with Instagram. The iPhone app offers a range of effects for dirtying-up your images, and you can share the results via Facebook, Twitter or Flickr. So far, that describes 100 other iPhone photo apps. The gimmick of 100 Cameras in 1 is that you can earn achievements and badges via the iOS Game Center.
The app, by photographer Trey Ratcliff, actually look pretty good even without the Game Center integration. Add a photo and choose from 100 effects, much like Instagram or Hipstamatic. The effects can be adjusted with a slider, and you can actually stack various filters one after the other, each time getting another 100 options to flip through.
But the sharing part may be what makes this a hit. Or it could be, if it were actually more social. As it is you earn awards for using the various filters and features of the app. These clock up on your Game Center score-table, where you can battle friends, but surely it could be more interesting, with badges for taking a lot of shots in the same spot (using GPS) over a period of time, say, or mastery of night photography.
Still, 100 Cameras in 1 is yet another example of what happens when your camera also includes processing software and an internet connection. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Instagram, the current big daddy of iPhone photo-sharing app, got some kind of achievement feature.
100 Cameras in 1 [Stuck in Customs]
100 Cameras in 1 [iTunes]
See Also:
- Instagram for iPhone, Like a Lomo-Twitter for Your Photos
- Instagram – Wired.com
- 8mm Vintage Camera is Hipstamatic for Video
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