Apple Design Awards 2013

Badland is a luscious, sidescrolling atmospheric action adventure platformer taking place in a seemingly idyllic forest. Badland's intuitive one-touch controls and immersive sound design complement the balanced, physics-based gameplay as players discover imaginative traps and overcome endless obstacles. In either single- or multi-player mode, the excellent production values and brilliant execution leverage OpenGL ES, Game Center, iCloud, and Retina display. Badland is designed specifically for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Ridiculous Fishing - A Tale of Redemption is a never-ending infinite arcade world about fishing with weapons, chainsaws, and toasters. It delivers hours of unique entertainment in an expertly-crafted, lo-fi, retro video game style. With engaging physics-based gameplay mixed with humor, players follow the main character in his search for redemption. Ridiculous Fishing supports Game Center Leaderboards and Achievements, is optimized for iOS and iPhone 5, and makes extensive use of Multi-touch, device motion, and OpenGL ES.

Letterpress - Word Game is a deceptively simple, yet highly addictive game by atebits that's a perfect blend of fun and strategy. It illustrates masterful asynchronous gameplay using Game Center and stands out for its beautifully understated game interface, simple gestures, subtle animations, and restrained sound design. Using OpenGL ES, Game Center, and In-App Purchase extensively, Letterpress - Word Game is only available on iOS.

Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders is a World War II arcade-style combat game in which players participate in dogfights, protect fleets of ships, and attack enemy bases. With a wide variety of single and multiplayer options and a large inventory of accurately-rendered aircraft, this app's impressive, Retina-enabled, AirPlay-enabled, graphics and sound design look awesome on the Mac. Amazing OpenGL based visuals and special effects including specular masks, bump mapping, atmospheric scattering, volumetric clouds, sun glare, day & night transitions, HDR rendering, radial blur, heat haze, refractive raindrops, and much more, with accurately recreated locations, realistic weather and interactive cockpits. Extensive cross-platform Game Center support mean challenges and real-time multi-player missions Mac versus Mac or Mac versus iOS. Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders is exclusive to OS X and iOS and localized in 10 languages.

Procreate is a complete art studio at your fingertips, exclusive to iPad. It's packed with features that artists love — from true-to-life sets of pencils, inks, and brushes, to advanced layer compositing, to unique digital tools. Procreate is a powerhouse of iOS technologies like ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and OpenGL ES which deliver state-of-the-art performance and responsiveness, 64-bit precision, and smooth 60 fps rendering of canvas sizes up to 4K x 4K. Procreate shares easily with Photoshop, Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, iTunes, Mail, Photos, and Dropbox, lets people preview brushes and other drawing tools before purchasing them with In-App Purchase, and uses Core Bluetooth to connect to accessories. Procreate earns an Apple Design Award for its technical, aesthetic, and creative excellence.

Yahoo! Weather stands apart with its simple, uncluttered, and beautiful visual design. This highly-rated app displays weather details with stunning photography based on time of day, location, and current conditions. Yahoo! Weather has great layout and typography, compelling animations, fast image processing, and clear iconography. This attention to detail means that in a saturated category, an app can rise above the crowd. Yahoo! Weather is available in 30 languages and optimized for all current iOS devices.

Evernote 5 for Mac is the OS X app for the popular note-taking and archiving service that helps you to remember everything and anything that happens in your life. Evernote truly excels on OS X with a redesigned, Retina-optimized, modern, single-window UI which also syncs notes between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and web. Evernote 5 for Mac uses every relevant OS X technology including iCloud, Notification Center, Reminders, QuickLook, Secure Keychain, Disk encryption, Core Location, Full-screen, Accessibility, and In App Purchase. It's also localized in 25 languages. With Mac, iPad, and iPhone versions of the app, and even a Safari Extension, the team at Evernote truly understands the value of developing platform differentiated apps.