iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

i love the push / debug combo. push all the enemies onto a square or two and mass decimation. (i accidentally debugged myself to death once tho.) i also love delay / one-shotting daemons before they spawn

oh good idea

i love grabbing some big boxes on level 8 and peacing

what's a good newish game?

just set a personal best in HACK today (87 over 2 runs) and now i'm ready to try something new

i'm embarrassed to admit i've been playing pocket mine recently

honestly it looks pretty fun but a few weeks ago i got really into terraria and although it was addicting, i ended up getting really sad irl. it looks too much like that!

i loved terraria - but i played it around when it first came out and it looks like they've added a lot since and now i've been contemplating playing it again

this is more arcadey than terraria fwiw

i know, but the first thing i read on the description page was "DIG TO..." and i didn't get past it. it's not you, pocket mine, it's me. i have had an incident

puzzle quest marvel universe is match 3 addiction
pocket mine is a great time waster
Paint it Back is Picross
Quest Rush is OdinSphere style achievement quest
Fiete Match is Memory cards with nice design
Fist of Awesome is boingboing snark Final Fight with fun 8bit visuals
Kingturn Underworld is surprisingly deep SRPG with new wrinkles and lots of depth

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EdwardBrown/20131013/202251/Watch_Me_Squirm_as_I_Wrestle_with_Freetoplay.php

thoughtful post by the developer of paint it back (which is really fun btw) about deciding whether to make his game free-to-play

personally i'd pay three bucks for an ios picross game in a heartbeat, but that's just me, aka the dude who carries three separate picross ds games with him to work every day

then go buy paint it back! it's two bucks.

i did!

i guess my point is that i really don't envy ios developers having to make gameplay/creative sacrifices in the name of iap

then again as some dude in the comments writes: "IAP bothers no one except some developers these days, all the user tests I've ran and seen show this." guess that's settled, then!

wait, i thought there were only two Picross DS games. did they make one for 3DS yet?

it's kinda sad but we're largely inured to IAP design now. that said, Marvel Puzzle Quest did annoy a little with the recharging and grinding off the beat. puzzle & dragons really set a new standard for this stuff IMO

i'm counting picross ds, picross 3d, and color cross (a poorly-made picross derivative, but picross nonetheless!). i picked it up used off amazon for a couple bucks and i'm more than willing to forgive its flaws

I'm looking forward to things coming full circle until I can buy a truly awesome single-player RPG for my iPhone for like $10, no IAP.

Someday.

IAPs are never going away. Look forward to PC and console games adopting similar tactics.

i'm sure they're gonna get even worse once they figure out what the next big addiction scheme is past "energy use"

are there sites that track IAP price drops? not like for candy crush bullshit but for games where the f2p means more or less that you're dl'ing a demo? I mean I want to support developers but sometimes I want to wait it out, not pay $5 for a game when it's new but drop $3 a little later. I've got trackers for full price game drops but dunno anything about tracking iap drops

toucharcade has a system that works well for that. you have to register and then track via an app.

since discovering wechat & line games, i have been unable to live a normal life

http://img0.pconline.com.cn/pconline/1308/05/3413007_73.jpeg http://www.appgamed.com/photo_android/LINE-Pokopang_130613_02.jpg

help

there's a US version?

of the one i posted? honestly i've no idea. the second one (pokopang) is a line game, and that's definitely all in english.

Everyone on the trains in Tokyo was playing Puzzle&Dragons but it demands always-on data, so fuck that.

Yeah that's why I gave up on marvel puzzle quest too, seems to be an irritating trend, loads of games around at the moment which should be fine offline but which crap out when I enter the tube.

pocket mine and marvel puzzle quest both have terrible energy mechanisms but are completely addictive.

http://doomanddestiny.com/
just started but this is a lovingly crafted Final Fantasy / RPG Maker pastiche that promises 30 hours of play for a buck. it's fun.

P&D is sooooooo, sooooooo addictive

but isn't it some candy crush must spend real ca$h to progress bullshit?

nah, it's a lot better IMO; i haven't paid a dime. they're also fairly generous with their IAP currency (Magic Stones), usually running events that give you a free stone everyday - just don't waste them on recharging your energy, only use them for the "rare egg machine" during special events. basically, if you're patient and cleverly manage your time (you get a free energy refill when you hit a new experience level) it's very doable

i went back to play Candy Crush afterwards and it just feels like a dog; marvel PQ is a step over CC but not the fine-tuned machine that P&D is, yet

why can't i find puzzle & dragons?

It's only in the Japanese and US stores.

ffs

this is why piracy etc etc

Oh wait, it's just been released in the UK. Magic.

sigh

Don't really understand the complaints about Candy Crush. There's absolutely no need to spend anything to get to the last level.

six hours into "doom and destiny" i am ready to sing its praises to all of you
this is a full fledged, worthwhile Final Fantasy/Dragon Warrior style RPG with a sophomoric but very serviceable sense of humor (the sleep spell is called "nighty night asshole"), surprising depth, heavy customization, easy to play and control on iphone (also on android) and only a buck. if you have a passing interest in RPGs this is a no-brainer, go get it.

i am 3 hours in, similarly impressed

i'm swayed - might wait for it to hit Steam though. i voted to greenlight it
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93788887

so this looks fun: http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/10/24/will-fail-play-empire-ios/

also i've been playing this recently: http://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/battle-of-the-bulge

and of course marvel puzzle quest

yeah empire is a challenge.

mordy do you play ios carcassonne

i don't - should i?

Don't really understand the complaints about Candy Crush. There's absolutely no need to spend anything to get to the last level.

― tsrobodo, Monday, October 21, 2013 10:12 AM (3 days ago)

^^^This. You're doing it wrong if you're spending $$$.

i don't - should i?

― Mordy , Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you like euros? it's a pretty pure euro. very different from catan (for the better) imho. i dig it.

i do like euros but generally in person more than on iDevice eg ticket to ride, catan, dominion - no experience yet in either medium w/ puerto rico, power grid or carcassone

http://i39.tinypic.com/vym5hi.jpg
lol

spaceteam is free and amazing (requires 2-4 players) - i really can't overstate how much fun it is

they've made some fast major updates to Marvel Puzzle Quest, it's definitely easier, more grindable, more fun now