iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

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This is pretty nice:
http://www.badlandgame.com/

slayin' is pretty great.

anyone else doing nimble quest yet? i like the gameplay, but sort of wish there was more going on.

nimble quest bored me pretty fast but i try it every now and again

still playin' it. really want to unlock all the chars, but god knows how long that'll take to buff up everyone enough to get that far. i'm stuck at 9

Injustice iOS app is pretty solid. Basically like the Batman Arkham City one, but it's a got a card-collecting King of Fighters vibe with 3v3 teams and it's better because it's free. Worse because it has some time-consumable crap to limit playtime and encourage IAP, but they give you enough to get like 15-20 minutes of game time per day, and you get more time the more characters you unlock. Good corporate synergy with giving unlocks to the console version (the NBA2K MyLife iOS and Facebook apps did this too).

Free Horn: http://www.ign.com/prime/promo/free-horn

Very bored with Nimble Bit. Occasionally judders at the wrong moment which is very frustrating. I like the concept though. Also loads quickly so good for quick games.

i've got like seven characters on nimble quest. maybe three are leveled up. the frustrating bit is that there's lots of slow, dreary play where you still have to pay attention or you'll die, and then a little bit of tricky play and then i always die.

"Good thing I came to work, the Deep Fat is slammed."

I got slash tonight on nimble quest. Will be interesting to see if I can improve on that while sober

I find the real trick of NQ is when you have five or so heroes, and forget how vulnerable the leader is biz of all the damage your wake is able to do. I'm trying to develop a method- so far, caring less about gems seems perversely helpful.

man Injustice is SUCH a grind but i keep sinking time into it, damn card collecting and a bajillion upgradable stats

still like NQ but i think i've hit a wall in not being able to get to hero #10. i might just have to grind it out on this game too, to level up all my guys to 2 stars

Dungeon Plunder update this week made levels 7+ a little less hard & I'm digging it even more

did it add a fucking high scores list? it's unbelievable that it tells you your score when you die, and doesn't track it anywhere. that's like half the fun with a roguelike, to try to beat your own high score!

no it didn't

what's fun is to try to make it another level further so that you get to start at a higher level the next time you die, un rogue like there but I like it

fairway solitaire has an obnoxious "buy our other games" splash screen even after you've paid for it, it's still iphone 4-sized, it is WAY too big for a card game, it's super slow and annoying and yet, fuck, i cant stop playing the stupid thing

I only play it on the iPad.

Has there ever been a best iOS game poll?

iOS games are counted in Coint + Plick but i don't think ilx has run an exclusively iOS game poll

I think it would be interesting to see them compete against themselves. Unlike other all time game polls, I don't think there would be as much bias to the new latest and greatest game.

Anyway, people who like running polls, consider it in the future.

a+ would vote.

(and yeah, play the new course packs of fairway every day)

i keep playing those new course packs too. man those final bonus tracks to unlock after the campaign mode are realllly expensive

i am also chained to fairway solitaire

still on Tiny Tower

24 floors, also my new favorite renaming is JUNGLE APTS --> YES IT'S RACIST

haha

Ridiculous Fishing is my game of the moment

it's so great. quintessential iphone game

But... $3!

That's too much? I so rarely look at price, unless it is a final fantasy game.

BETTER COME QUICK IF YOU WANT ANYTHING FROM THE QBERT SEX SWING

I will never get tired of this

i think i'm mostly done with slayin' but still can't recommend enough

But... $3!

Cup of fancy coffee

i have one last fish to catch

getting the last fish drove me crazy. but once you get it, the game doesn't really have anything else for you except trying to get deeper on the last level :-(

Really wish there was some more content there.

I cannot get past 6 fish left. How deep do you have to go to get them?!

I enjoyed the art and music in Ridiculous Fishing, but found playing the game to actually be a chore & sort of shit (after the shine of the first couple of minutes). Little things missing made it even more annoying, like no reset when you screw up. I feel like the first part of the game, dodging fish is okay, but then coming up and catching fish is less fun (and seems to take forever) and shooting the fish once you get to the surface is boring and also takes too long.

I hate that it stops spotify anytime I try to play. iOS developers should let me decide when I want to listen to my music or their shitty soundtracks over and over.

I'm looking at you hexagon.

the last fish are rare and there are secrets to getting them. to get most of them you have to get through the credits sequence first, and then they're scattered about. there are spoiler guides online that explain the tricks.

i feel like i played an almost-identical game (in terms of mechanics) but with different graphix before? anyone know what im talkin bout?

aha it was NINJA FISHING

http://toucharcade.com/2011/07/20/a-seafood-buffet-radical-fishing-ridiculous-fishing-and-ninja-fishing/

yeah, ninja fishing was a rip off off this in its original flash form

i've been playing Fairway Solitaire and liked it for a while but am now basically done it, like even went back and got three stars on levels i didn't get three stars on and now i'm at the point where they want me to pay points for new levels. but i'm also kind of bored of it. it's sort of my kind of game, but sort of not.

i also tried playing Tiny Tower but i'm not sure what the point of it is?? you build a tower and put people in it and give them jobs and money accumulates and you buy more floors and stuff with it. and so on. where are the problems to solve (and possibly monsters)? i don't get it.

i've also been playing this game called Jewels that a friend suggested to me, which is good for playing while waiting for things or watching episodes of some tv show, mostly fringe.
i like it because i like Tetris, but it is no Tetris. I should prob just get Tetris. But what game is out there that is a bit more like tetris meets a kind-of-quick narrative (i have no patience for things like zelda) + unlocking levels that are new&different?

Dream of Pixels is like an anti- or reverse- tetris thing where you carve tetris pieces of of this descending cloud. Its quite good + it has multiple gameplay modes + puzzles that are fun and tricky.

Its the only falling-stuff puzzle-ish thing that I've played on ios that I've really enjoyed.

cool, thanks!

rrrobyn, you know that fairway solitaire gives you three new courses every day for free right? (well, you have to unlock the second and third ones through challenge cups or in game money. but not real money.)

oh i know, yeah i wasn't being clear about "pay" meaning game money, haha, kind of silly, i know
and i will continue to play fairway solitaire regardless

In which Tombot attempts to mathematics:

It looks like over half my tiny tower bitizens are in their dream job. Since I have evenly distributed types of workplaces ( not favoring creative or food over retail or service, etc) and the bitizens' dream job attribute is randomly assigned, that means I have more than half of the possible workplaces, right?

If you're not tyrantin' all over your complex, kicking out the poor fools who don't match your shop requirements with a high rating you're doin it wrong

haha that is how i was playing it and i felt as triumphant as i felt underhanded. tyranny.