iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

TOO full

i start off the same but i dunno if it helps, it always descends into anarchy and scrambling.

I try to engineer a little barrier that I can then pop them behind, sort of like this:

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But it rarely works out.

oh piss.

jim what is that, you try to make a little barrier of them somehow??

honest to god this is the greatest video game ever created by man or beast. if it took quarters i would be fucking destitute.

My picture was meant to look like this

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Er no, that's not it either.

If you start at the right point, you can just keep the fire button held down and it will automatically build a wall of the things, you can get them angling out from the corner at 30 or 60 degrees depending where you start. But I'm not convinced it's a great strategy, you end up with a whole bunch of orbs which you can't get at and the screen just fills up.

(er that's in pure or gravity, not supernova)

I try and create big bubbles with large gravity fields. Then I can get rid of them by shooting around the periphery and it skirts along until it pops. This never gets me a high score though. However, it is very satisfying.

yeah the paradox of the big bubble - dangerous, irritating, but will take out everything else once you pop it

My supernova strategy: start with a bubble in the top center, put bubbles on the sides, pop the center one, then start winnowing down the sides until there are at least 3 in the 1 range and a few more in the 2 range clumped together, then pop one of the 1 bubbles for a chain reaction. Clear up stragglers as I can and repeat. If possible, I try to create little ricochet alcoves and fire into those to clear out things that might be in the way.

When this works, I can reliably score well into the 200s with this strategy, but mishits are BRUTAL.

which supernova game are you talking about, the bejeweled-styel one?

Supernova mode in Orbital

I tried the free version of Orbital and didn't get the appeal. The only games that I've played for more than a few days are Peggle, Bookworm, Scrabble and Canabalt.

i still play drop7 every day

what the hell is wrong with me

oh god i just DLd this

you will all be receiving a letter from my dean

getting REALLY into Mr.Aah! these days; it's like a deliberate version of Canabalt. also I picked up Puzzle Quest ON IPHONE and oh lord I had forgotten how addictive this shit is.

"ricochet alcoves" for the win

i still play drop7 every day

ditto. still can't get over 400,000 like hardly ever.

I've never played Broken Sword before, tempted by this iPhone port. Anyone playing that?

Where the hell is Plants vs Zombies on the iTunes store. I only can find Plants vs Zombies Cheats and Zombie Parade when I search.

didn't think u cd get PvsZ ON IPHONE yet?

I'm mixing up threads. ILX Brainmash fail.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/08/plants-vs-zombies-coming-to-iphone-on-february-15th/

ABOUT GODDAMN TIME

YES COBO

ON IPAD next pls

I'd rather they just dropped the price for the Mac OS X version in half, like the way it's been on Steam since release day.

anyone played eliss or edge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fELPZ26QRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aB_ZkonGw

Edge isn't available because of some ridiculous copyright dispute.

oh, that guy

sorry to tell you it's really good :/

awesome write-up about Tim Langdell, the gigadouche who made it so you can't get Edge

also crossposting from C&P: Wolfenstein RPG is a ton of fun. the turn-based mechanic works way better than you would have ever guessed.

oh and Space Miner is supposed to be an incredible Asteroids/RPG mashup game with good production values and insane gameplay hooks. I'm buying it as soon as I get my next paycheck.

I have the lite version of Eliss, should really spring for the full thing. Geodefense is my new crackpipe tho.

I can re-download apps bought off itunes w/out having to repay right?

yup, unless they've been removed from the store

(in which case they're just gone forever)

OK, might try w/something cheap first in case itunes is being its usual cunty

Edge was the first iPhone game I got, based on rave reviews (when there were few other iPhone games); it's kinda fun but a year or year.5 later it still hasn't clicked as awesome. The puzzles are either no work or a pain to figure out, like "ok I will die figuring out this puzzle a few times and then by the end, have memorized all the potential pitfalls and win without dying". Obv. I need to play it more b/c it probably gets better...I hope?

broke 500 on orbital

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

does everyone on here have Space Miner yet? it is fucking amazing.

also getting a lot of playtime out of Fritz Chess lately.

space miner is the first game I'm grabbing on ma new iphone I think; along w/PvZ

it is so so so so so dope. also surprisingly funny (as opposed to "video game funny").

oh and pick up Sword & Poker while you're buying stuff, it's only a buck and it ate my life for a couple of weeks.

have any of you tried The Quest?

http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/23/mimeo_and_the_kleptopus_king

whoa this looks sick

Mimeo (even the name) started as a Mario clone with a twist: instead of power-ups affecting the player, they affect the entire game world. A story and mythos quickly developed. The so-called Mimeoverse consists of two 16-bit demiverses sharing 32-bits between them. When the evil Kleptopus King, an 8-bit octopus with an inferiority complex, discovers a portal into Mimeo’s realm and begins to syphon off its bits, Mimeo is sucked in and down-sampled to 2-bit. So begins Mimeo’s quest to restore balance to the demiverses.

ergo power-ups upgrade not your character but the world itself

http://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gifhttp://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/drudge_siren.gif

anyone who liked Pic Pic/hasn't ever heard of Pic Pic but likes puzzle games needs to drop two bucks on PathPix right now and prepare to lose a few days of their life.