iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

This looks like it's going to suck, but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zEuxR7ICcs

man i love usagi but i don't need him in a hack n slash game
at least the art is reasonably true to sakai

The art made me watch the trailer twice. Gameplay looks asstastic.

Spooky 2D/3D adventure game Year Walk, based on Swedish folklore, came out this week. I'm liking the Contre Jour aesthetics.

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

Oops. Wrong trailer. Not many games come out with a free companion app.

http://www.youtube.com/watch&v=tBRinjOlugk

Wasteland Kings looks good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBveo6Zni10

is wasteland kings an iphone game? i couldn't seem to find it.

wow, made in 3 days for the Humble Bundle Mojam this year

Another one from the same developer, Ridiculous Fishing, is awaiting Apple approval.

seems to have a top-down Cave Story feel

oh that makes sense - they did Super Crate Box

still eating major humble pie in letterpress, I assume I might win a game in another month or two

Just got satirical games industry commentary/non-game Little Inferno just because I loved World of Goo so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8cIVlj2Jc

Why is this Simpsons thing so compelling? Also I'm envious of all you town planners. Interestingly enough I suspect you could ditch roads and save a bit of money. An experiment for the next few days.

I am kinda bored of it to be honest. Pixel People on the other hand has taken over my life.

Fucking New Star Soccer is going to cause me either to: get fired, get dumped, or both.

Why is this Simpsons thing so compelling? Also I'm envious of all you town planners. Interestingly enough I suspect you could ditch roads and save a bit of money. An experiment for the next few days.

― hyggeligt, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:05 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh these games disgust me STOP IT SAVE YOUR LIVES

Year Walk is absolutely beautiful

xp there's nothing to save... there never was

little inferno is SO GOOD
i am currently playing sword and poker, momonga and puzzle restorer and can recommend all three strongly.
did i mention the Room? Play the Room.

Pro tip on Simpsons roads - they work great to tunnel all your wandering peeps to an easy touch screen point, other than that they're useless.

Hi s1ocks!

I download the Simpsons one, and I'm still playing it, but in kind of a desultory fashion. It's just not that interesting. Pixel People is great, though.

*downloaded

Quick review: Infinity Blade is juddering a lot but alright for quick games. Dodge is frustrating.

IMO the time investment in the Simpsons game is low enough that you should totally play at least through level 11-12 so you can watch Mr Burns walk his dogs

guys

king cashing 2 comes out tonight?

paging drudge

oh shit

Pro tip on Simpsons roads - they work great to tunnel all your wandering peeps to an easy touch screen point, other than that they're useless.

Hi s1ocks!

Good tip and put into practice. How did you get all those fancy buildings? Did you spend real $$$?

no, they become accessible over time - i havent done any of the premium shit, but i keep an eye on stuff that unlocks but isnt quest related and grab it when im sitting on a large enough pile of cash. pro tip - the news building is a cash/xp farm, so remember to click it and start broadcasts for $$$

oh yeah also, unless you spend many of your waking hours checking on the thing, look for buildings that accrue larger cash/xp over a longer period of time, stuff that refreshes $3 every 5 minutes is pretty much useless once you get further in.

2.004 billions in supermamc, rank 12017, 5m58seconds

do you dudes ever do the orient express? seems kinda useless to me

only for the event - the cost seems way too high for the gamble benefit

(not posting my score until i've bought all the hats)

What do the hats do?

My high is like 2.1 billion. It's weird I'll play a game and think I'm doing good and only end up scoring like 200 million. Then out of no where I'll hit a billion even though I think I'm not playing particularly well.

year walk is indeed amazing

Passed 6bn just now and not even sure how it happened, I was absent mindedly flicking around while thinking about something else entirely then hey presto.

ok i think this is starting to click - 2.456 billion, rank 10029

This would be much more enjoyable and less stressful on an iPad I imagine

Puzzle Craft got updated recently, they added new buildings and such. I forgot how much of a battery drain that game was...

The hats boost your starting multiplier, I suggest grabbing them.

I only ever do the Orient Express if I've stockpiled gold (20K+) and I feel like concentrating on an extended game; I then do peace + slow chain + double boost and pump upgraded condos into blue at the beginning as quickly as possible, hoping to get my multiplier over 200 right away. After that, it's just a balancing act of activating blue to extend time and boost multipliers, switching to green to get to megazone faster and trying to activate yellow before actually entering megazone (with a good multiplier, say 300+, you can get 3 billion points right there). Orient Express is a good way to game for a high score with this strategy because the multipliers increase faster.

I suck at extending time with blue. It never seems to amount to anything.

The thing that seems to do nothing for me is the match time extension boost, but iirc it is a key aspect of djp strategy and he has like 1000 billion more points than me so I am obv doing it wrong.

I'm worried I'm burning out on this game, because up until now my scores have been improving as my understanding improves, and that's fun and interesting. But now I feel like my understanding is maxed out and it's just my clumsy fat fucking fingers that are limiting my scoring.

(although I'm still not entirely clear on how I activate a power for megazone, whenever I get in there it seems like everything pauses for a second or two, during which I can't feed anything to anyone, and by the time that's passed the monsters have vanished).

Right, having the yellow bro out there and the timing of feeding him a condo before mega is tricky.

Do other powers work during megazone though, or just yellow? Because I'm SURE I've gone in with green active without it having any effect...

just yellow AFAICT, although you might be able to have your first match with blue count as well (but it wouldn't matter unless you have clocks/pigs/multipliers in your match)

btw my go-to boosts are peace, slow chain and double pink; I only used match extension early on

the easy grindy way to stockpile money is to just play a bunch of games using peace only

polymer is free right now. i've been meaning to get it. only a few games in its nice feeling how i was totally helpless the first few and am gradually developing the ability to actually plan ahead and execute strategies, etc.

want to stress again how much fun i'm having with sword and poker. It's a match 3 game with a twist: instead of jewels it's cards and you're matching for pairs, three of a kind, flush, straights, full house, etc. add a persistent RPG dungeoncrawl shell with level up weapon, health, shield and magic and this shit is golden. highly recommended; I need to get the sequel.

Also just picked up "heavy mach: defense" which looks interesting

Year walk is frustrating. Memorising sequences and revisiting old areas of the map to see if anything's changed are the dudliest of dud game mechanics.