{"id":400016,"date":"2017-09-15T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/14\/inks-free-app-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:44:15","slug":"pinball-game-inks-available-for-free-as-apples-app-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/pinball-game-inks-available-for-free-as-apples-app-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball Game &#8216;INKS&#8217; Available for Free as Apple&#8217;s App of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, Apple chooses an &#8220;App of the Week&#8221; to highlight in the App Store, making it free to download for seven days. This week&#8217;s pick is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofplaygames.com\/inks\/\">pinball app INKS<\/a>, which is normally priced at $2.99. INKS was first released in May of 2016 and has never been available for free before. INKS was also a 2016 Apple Design Award winner.<\/p>\n<p>INKS is a modern interpretation of pinball, combining the fun of a pinball game with tactical skill-based challenges and art creation. As you play, the ball sends bursts of ink across the game board, so it&#8217;s a different experience each time.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s8KqW2Cemzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>The game features more than 100 unique pinball tables to conquer, balanced gameplay, the ability to share high scores and favorite canvases, and, best of all, no in-app purchases. Apple&#8217;s Editors&#8217; Notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>Pinball meets paintball in this gorgeous Apple Design Award winner from the team behind Lumino City. Inks ditches the stressful not-so-fun parts of pinball, focusing instead on a breathtaking experience that&#8217;s part puzzle-solving, part artistic explosions of color. We seriously want to frame our best levels&#8211;inks is that beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a review, our sister site <em><a href=\"http:\/\/toucharcade.com\/2016\/05\/06\/inks-review-paintball-wizard\/\">TouchArcade<\/a><\/em> gave INKS four and a half stars and called it a &#8220;clever spin on one of the oldest concepts in electronic gaming&#8221; with superb level design and visuals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/inks-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-589224\"\/><br \/>INKS can be downloaded for free for the next seven days, and after that, a new App of the Week will be chosen. [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/inks\/id1081847121?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, Apple chooses an &#8220;App of the Week&#8221; to highlight in the App Store, making it free to download for seven days. This week&#8217;s pick is pinball app INKS, which is normally priced at $2.99. INKS was first released in May of 2016 and has never been available for free before. INKS was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":400017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-400016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}