iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

All six of these iPhone games are $1, with some proceeds going to charity:

http://toucharcade.com/2010/12/21/indie-iphone-holiday-sale/

Does not apply to iPad sadly, but I still bought Canabalt, Drop 7, and Solipskier.

Spider is the best iPhone game ever imo.

Final Fantasy just dropped to five bucks. Considering it.

Sounds (literally) facinating.

http://www.papasangre.com/

I don't have any hardware to run it though.

Wow. Dying to see reviews.

aaaaaand there goes Final Fantasy II.

Spider is the best iPhone game ever imo.

Ditto that.

I'm playing Osmos at the moment, which is dreamy and... difficult.

I feel like I am missing something key about Spider because I find it really boring.

Final Fantasy/FFII are worth $5.

yeah spider is duuullllll.

*still* playing trainyard, 2 bonus levels to go, the penultimate one is killing me. been stuck on it for over two weeks.

Oh, oh oh oh. Oh. Spider is *not* dull. Spider is an afternoon spent in an abandoned house, poking through the things the owners left behind, trying to work out what happened to them. The bug-catching is a v. original mechanic for delivering the narrative, and getting really good at it is pretty satisfying, imo, but Spider is really all about the secrets, the puzzles, the story.

WINtA is free, and is by Masaya Matsuura. Haven't tried it yet, got to be worth a go though.

Wow, winta load times are a total joke. Plus it only comes w 1 song and each addtl is 99c

I lost all my trainyard progress when my phone was stolen, and I can't bear to go through it all again...

I got stuck on two Trainyard puzzles a long time ago and gave up, but it was fun while it lasted.

Dudes on the train to the airport and the flight here were playing Angry Birds. I'm still suck on the Christmas levels.

Secret of Mana is live. $9 bucks American.

Much like how people wondered why Wii users were blowing $200 bucks on a console to play old games on it, we have yet another jrpg tidbit:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/21/chrono-trigger-coming-to-japanese-mobile-phones-we-arrive-at-th/

Six indie games go to 99cents to help raise money for Charity.

http://toucharcade.com/2010/12/21/indie-iphone-holiday-sale/

http://indiesale.com/

Here is a list of App Store links to the 6 games that are 99¢ as part of the Indie sale along with links to each developer's website and our review for each game:

•Canabalt, by Semi Secret Software – Review
•Solipskier, by Mikengreg – Review
•Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, by Tiger Style Games – Review
•Osmos, by Hemisphere Games – Review
•Eliss, by Steph Thirion – Review
•Drop7, by Area/Code Inc. – Review

Downloaded Trainyard earlier today. Just hit 160 stars and this is starting to hurt my brain

Infinity Blade, Carcassonne, Trainyard & Camera+ updates out !

Game Dev Story is on sale!! But... I have so many games to finish before I even think about starting another one... should I/shouldn't I?

You should

Okay now at the last two levels of Trainyard (Cooksville Creek and Machine Gun) and like omg jeez WTF. I can't wrap my brain aroub all of these switches I'm going to have to make. Idk why I can't just have leftover trains runnin around if all te stations have been filled :/

Like ive got most of Cooksville down but the fact that I'm going to have to have the final two trains merge and go into the last station is just like GGAAHHH

I can't do A Barrel Roll or Clown Car either.

This game was great for the spell between too easy and too difficult, but that didn't last all that long.

barrel roll was a struggle, i remember. clown car is a thing of beauty when it works tho.

... i didn't have the update with cooksville creek, just got it and all the bonus levels have disappeared wtf? will they come back when i get 100% again? will i still have my solutions? i do all that again ;_;

my update says "You won't see the bonus puzzles until you solve Cooksville Creek in Niagara Falls, and then you'll get the bonus puzzles back"

i do all that again ;_;

missing a "can't".

we will see. cooksville might take a while.

Trainyard was on sale for $.99 last night & I finally picked it up---had enjoyed the demo for a while.

Like ive got most of Cooksville down but the fact that I'm going to have to have the final two trains merge and go into the last station is just like GGAAHHH

you could be barking up the wrong tree. i've got two spots to fill and two trains left over, no merging - i just can't send them in the right direction.

Oh yeah I scrapped the whole thing and then figured it out. I was initially sending the train straight to the splitter at the bottom and then sending the left train to the left solitudes and right train to the right. But no more!

o no that's what i'm doing!

start over #3

Uh I meant splitters not solitudes. Do you want a vague hint?

I'm still stuck on the second to last section. Nice to see that everyone else is past that. :(

In other news I am really enjoying Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit for the iPad.

is cooksville a bonus puzzle area?

Angry Birds update with 15 'frontier' levels. Sounds like an American western theme. I doubt they fixed the performance problems that make the game unplayable.

is cooksville a bonus puzzle area?

Nah, normal levels, was included in a recent update. Just solved it, and got my bonus levels back, except the one I was stuck on (indusblue iirc) has vanished.

Apparently, I now have more gigs of apps on my phone than music. Freaky.

I have SimCity Deluxe and for some reason I cannot lay out powerlines. It lets me set down a powerplant but the button for lines remains greyed out. WHICH MEANS I CANT START A CITY. Is there a fucking bug in the thing?

I tried playing that SimCity a bit and was like ugh, I need a mouse.

I am deep into Puzzle Quest 2. It's great on the iPad and decent enough on the iPhone.

Read that as Police Quest 2 and was super psyched for a moment.

Is there a Police Quest 1?

anyone played papa sangre?
http://www.papasangre.com/

xpost... Old Sierra PC games

Apple are doing the "12 days of christmas" daily freebie thing again this year (at least in the UK), so far it's been rubbish but today's is Fishing Kings which is maybe fun if you like fishing games.

We probably need another thread for this, but how much gametime or content does a game have to rate you feeling satisfied that your money's well-spent? Most of these titles have a runtime of a few hours, is that worth your shillings?

I say this because there are, as mentioned upthread, plenty of titles that are only a buck or a pound yet still feel like wasteful shovelware.

My thoughts:
Angry Birds(last for DAYS, more content continuously) = hell yeah
GameDev Story(very definite plateau, crack for hours) = hell yeah, cost only a pint of beer

Does it fall into different categories like if its a ninety-nine center or not?

What about when you start hitting the iphone-equivalent of a AAA title that runs more? Carcasonne/GTA:Liberty City Stories is ten bucks, Aralon with God knows how much content and giving you an Oblivian-like experience on a smartphone for God's sake for seven bucks, all the Square-Enix games, etc.

For me, considering the limitations of the media (the small screen, the never really perfect control mechanics) I'm not willing to pay $10 for a game, even if it otherwise has the same amount of content as a 360 game that I'd spend much more for.

I was willing to pay 10$ for Carcassonne and Scrabble because I knew that I would play them basically for the rest of my life, considering I already play the board games. It was like buying knives for the kitchen or something. I know I'm never going to get sick of them and they both play very well on the iPad.

I paid 10$ for World of Goo because I have been wanting to play that game forever and the iPad seemed like a good way to play it. But for the most part I am not willing to shell out more than a buck or two for casual games, and usually am more than happy to just dick around with the lite version for free.