iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

"Hey, 3 of us to research? You, you're absolutely miles away, you should totes do it rather than me sitting in the bunker next to it!"

Done. 1:09 to spare. Wave 11. Crap animation at the end but now can relax when replaying.

Madden 25 for iOS launches today!

and it's apparently very bad!
http://toucharcade.com/2013/08/27/madden-25-review/

yet another console/PC game that doesn't translate well to an iPad

That really isn't the issue here though.

Madden 25 for the console is also supposed to be pretty bad, and also the games are completely different.

not right thread but: is there a good Madden for console right now? I have 07, was thinking maybe something newer would be good, don't care about being up to date really, but maybe 07 is as good as I need then?

Hmm, I may be wrong about the new one. Gamespot didn't like it but the other reviews are fairly good:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/madden-nfl-25/critic-reviews

Pro tip for those waiting for lives in Candy Crush, move your phones clock ahead by a few hours. (Not sure how they let that one slip by, and even less sure why despite being so obvious it's only just occurred to me.)

i have now beat "hard" and "harder" in super hexagon, but can only manage 12 seconds on "hardest".

candy crush level 65 makes me want to throw my phone in the fucking river

i can't believe you're letting that fake game scam you

i would judge but i'm shoulder-deep into Puzzle & Dragons

the epilogue for The Room is hella fun

http://toucharcade.com/2013/09/04/a-snes-emulator-snuck-on-the-app-store-via-remote-file-manager/
fully functional dropbox viewer that also coincidentally runs SNES roms when you load them through the program via ftp, only 99 cents and available now on iOS
get it before they close the door

(works great btw)

that just looks really uncomfortable tbh (as do all iPhone emulators)

i'm playing on ipad btw

Don't understand it but bought it anyway.

Jon, do you have snes romz handy? i can explain

read about this kinda sketch way to install a bunch of emulators to ios without jailbreak: http://emu4ios.weebly.com/

haven't tried yet tho

Xpost tonight will be when
I try to figger it out. I may gchat you!

I'm at a fantasy draft, but try me. Should be self-evident. Playing Earthbound!

I'm playing EarthBound too!! Though I'm halfway through the game on my laptop and cannot figure out how to load a save state I've got on my computer :(

giant boulder death guys! adultswim so you know its good

868-HACK!

roguelike/puzzle game. very simple (almost elegantly so) design

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/868-Hack/review.asp?c=53545

looks amazing but $6?!

Just buy it. ZS approved.

No, don't!

I mean, it's a lot of fun but I think there's going to be an updated windows/Mac version soon! I think there may be a free version of it out there already. Of course I didn't learn this until after I had already bought the iOS version...

I bought it and I'm going to LOVE it. Once I play it.

giant boulder of death is somewhat obsessive

that f'ing soundtrack. why do you do this to me.

gbod is driving me nuts now. Can't make it past 48000 points, and can make it to the third invinciboulder maybe 25% of the time, but never to the fourth one. the difficulty ramps up really sharply.

on 42,000. just half a minute on the x10 wd be fine.

Has ilxor got a similar type of thread for Android games?

android games - are they all terrible

Cheers

Had one great/lucky GBOD run to 150,000+ points that puts me in the 500s overall in the leaderboards, and i still feel like i'm terrible at this game.

868-HACK is fucking great, worth ten times the price imo

i've been so addicted. my top score is 62 points for a single run. the balance between going for points and going for completion is so delicate!

you guys are really tempting me here

do it! at this point michael brough can charge me whatever the fuck he wants for his games

i'm curious about his other games. there's a link to them within the app, and it looks like there are 3-4 others, about $1 each. have you played any of them govyouacc?

yeah, zaga-33 is another awesome roguelike, corrypt is a cool sokoban variant, but my favorite of his is vesper 5, in which you can only move once per day

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/02/michael-brough/all/

this wired profile goes into more detail about his ideas and aesthetic - he's absolutely the game designer i'm most excited about at this point

whoa, i didn't realize he was well known! i'll have to check out vesper 5, thanks!

Brough lists the card game Race for the Galaxy, designed by an economist named Thomas Lehmann, as a perfect example of a game that teaches a concept with a useful real-world application: opportunity cost, which refers to the idea that the cost of any action isn’t just the material cost you pay to do it, but also the value of the other actions that you could’ve chosen instead.

Race for the Galaxy, Brough explains, has an exaggerated sense of opportunity cost. In the game, players have a hand of cards, and there are planets which they can settle. The number of cards you can play in a phase is limited. The catch: To play one card, you have to sacrifice another without using it, potentially losing access to it forever.

i'm glad that this is mentioned in the article because it helps to explain the core appeal of 868-HACK. there's always tension because each program that you decide to acquire pushes you down a certain runthrough style while at the same time making other strategies more difficult to pursue. for example, one way to get a lot of points is to grab the Score and Exchange programs, and then using Score early on (the earlier you use Score, the more points it gives you). but going with that strategy makes it a lot harder to stockpile the resources to purchase the programs that help to fend off enemies and assist in navigation, so it becomes a lot more difficult to actually complete the game.

yeah, that's a good way of explaining it - i'm not very good at all (top score 30ish?), but honestly i haven't tried other strategies besides focusing on d_bomb/reset early, stockpiling data, and trying to survive and take easy points when they're offered

one of the things i like best about it is how survival comes with a price (yes, you unlock a new powerup and keep your score going - but you also lose all your data and accrued powers). the experience of starting over again without any abilities is weirdly humbling

Any alternatives to constantly crashing Simcity Deluxe? I just want to build a little world and do no one any harm...

xpost

if i'm playing for survival (which i usually am), i concentrate on getting the three weapons - D-bomb, Antivirus and Debug. it's tough to get them in the early game since they summon 4 enemies, but usually there's an opportunity to grab one that offers good cover. once i have those i grab a Reset and a Wait, and then start getting as many resources as possible. late in the game it's good to grab Step, because that one can really come in handy on the final level when you're just trying to book it!

if the opportunity presents itself early in the game, i go for points at the expense of survival. usually it's when i have the chance to grab 1-2 weapons on the first level, and then a Score pops up on level 2 and i have a decent chance of getting it without dying. if you can get Score early on (+ Exchange, if it's easy to grab and you have a lot of $$), then you can be a points machine for a few levels, because every time you use Score you'll get 5+ points. Exchange is useful at this point because you can later in the game, of course, Score becomes pointless. the big downfall of this strategy is that it's easy to die because you're spending all your resources on points rather than ramping up your mad skillz.

the best i've done in a single game while surviving is 41.