iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

<3 michael brough so much. if anything prefer Corrypt to 868-HACK. to win the game you've got to break the early game rules and landscape, and by breaking the game you become the powerful evil you thought you were hunting, you get to use meta rules like save game checkpoints as one of the main 'moves' in your tactics, and in the end you create so much destruction and disorder that you can't move and just end up gazing in shock at what you've done just because you wanted to solve a puzzle. well I did. seems to get deep into the fabric of game playing in every way. it's like portal if each time you solved a room you made the next room more difficult for yourself. and if portals went into previous rooms you'd already solved.

wow i've tried corrypt but didnt get far... that sounds way radder than i assumed the game was

interesting what he says about people using .STEP to run through the hard levels... though i'm not sure how that's a thing? like, you score big on early levels and just step your way through the higher ones?

wow i've tried corrypt but didnt get far... that sounds way radder than i assumed the game was

― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:51 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

there's a specific point where it all goes batshit - where you start using/encountering the first few 'replace same tile in every room with nothing' spells. once you start getting those spells more frequently, it all goes haywire.

i didnt even know there were spells

like, you score big on early levels and just step your way through the higher ones?

I was frequently able to do this, but usually only on the final stage.

I finally caved and purchased one of these devices. What fiveish games should I get, given that

i. I have already played a Kairosoft game and don't need another
ii. I would rather have an ~interesting gameplay experience~ than a compellingly put-together grindfest
ii. a. I don't really have a commute as such
ii. b. I don't ever want to install Marvel Puzzle Quest

Drop 7

tiny wings

tiny wings, hexagon, bejeweled blitz, monsters ate my condo, 868-HACK, phoenix HD, peggle

pocket mine, fish out of water, punch quest.

ridiculous fishing

Truth be told, other than Drop 7 the only iPhone game I have ever enjoyed is Sally's Spa and its companion game Sally's Salon

oh and if you like puzzles consider english country tune

Orbital, Fairway Solitaire, Dungeon Raid, monsters ate my condo, Tiny Wings.

I've been playing a lot of deer hunter recently lol

drop 7, 868-hack

drop 7, 868-hack, super hexagon.

drop 7, 868-hack, super hexagon, frenzic.

drop 7, 868-hack, super hexagon, frenzic, gridrunner

drop 7 has not aged well really, sorry dudez

you haven't aged well really

this is true. but better than drop 7!

how does a game like that "age badly"? are its themes and subjects dated now?

no one uses numbers anymore

i feel like it's been lapped by a lot of other iPhone games since 2009 in looks, design, quality etc. not like i can make a 1:1 comparison, but there's a lot more options now for this sort of game

maybe i'm just burned out on the flat look

tell me a game that's lapped drop 7 (please do, because i want to play it!)

no one has repped for either of the games i already got yet!!

which ones?

100 rogues, ziggurat

never heard of em

hey when are they gonna do a 1000000000 sequel already

100 rogues was pretty decent, i keep meaning to get Ziggurat but the whole Tim Rogers thing scares me off

100 rogues is okay

Electro Master, Impossible Road

interesting gameplay experience

If interesting includes maybe-not-that-good-really-but-definitely-unique then Device 6.

Michael Brough fans... how does 868-HACK compare to Zaga 33? I'm curious about 868 due to the love here, but I tried Zaga and never got into it.

Forget-Me-Not

GeoDefense & GeoDefense Swarm are two great tower defence games.

sold

get Corrypt, it's brilliant

http://indiestatik.com/2014/01/02/hoplite/

If you’ve played 868-HACK, you’ll notice quite a few similarities in Hoplite, even though the advantages that the combat system offers you against your enemies are practically inverted (considering the up-close/ranged attacks). Funnily enough, Hoplite was originally made during the same 7DRL (seven-day roguelike) game jam that Michael Brough’s 86856527 was, which he worked on after and brought to iOS (and other platforms soon) as 868-HACK.

i've been enjoying hoplite lately - it doesn't mess around with the in-game mechanics to nearly the extent 868-hack does, but the gameplay is very broadly in the same style, and it's very thoughtfully designed

some of my faves this year:
Device 6
Paint it Back
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign
Ridiculous Fishing - A Tale of Redemption
Spaceteam
The Room Two
Knightmare Tower
Kingdom Rush Frontiers
Kings League
Warhammer Quest

also Corrypt is very much an ~interesting gameplay experience~

I also second Kingdom Rush and Kingdom Rush Frontiers

also Rymdkapsel

you guys should put this stuff in your P&C ballot because there's no way I'm gonna remember all of these

funny you should say that

***** "Get ready for the most realistic 3D Camel Racing rush this year!!!" UAE Camel Racing ***** "إلعب اكثر الألعاب المجانية اثارة...سباق الهجن" UAE Camel Racing ***** "Ads FREE (No more annoying ads ruining your racing experience)" Live the dream of owning and racing realistic camels, and share the experience with your friends! +...

is that for real or

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the michael brough stuff looks so much like My Sort Of Thing

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100 rogues is kind of annoyingly halfway to being a good game. it looks like the designer has played SHIREN THE WANDERER, the perfectly designed snes and later ds roguelike. the 'arcade' nature of it is feels a bit like that one, the idea that each new wave of levels includes a distinct set of attack patterns to think about.

and the idea that one ought to have a set of area control attacks to use is a good one. it just seems that that ought to replace the randomly-generated equipment etc rather than supplementing it, it feels a bit busy and half-designed. also i keep hitting the wrong square and i don't think i'm even having fat-handed twat issues.

also i thought there were literally 100 classes and that you unlocked them by completing the game, not that there were a dozen and you paid for them individually. not a fan of that, really. also why on earth does it have i. cutscenes ii. difficulty settings.

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ziggurat was a really good value £0.59. i think it does most everything it sets out to do.

100 rogues is kind of annoyingly halfway to being a good game.

i feel the same way about a game near the top of the app store right now called Slayin. the basic game is decent - it's very simple, you just walk your character around a single screen, obliterating enemies with a single touch, every 10 enemies you kill gains you a level, every 10 levels there's a boss. there's a merchant that sometimes appears with armor/weapon upgrades, and coins you collect from enemies to spend at the merchant, and "fame" that you can use to buy other game-related items at the "tavern" after you die.

it's only 99 cents. so it's amazing that it feels like such a disappointing ripoff! it's like they put absolutely no time into tweaking the game to make it playable or interesting. the items that the merchant sells are always enticing, but the amount of coins you get before meeting him are never enough to afford the best items. then, after saving up all the coins you can and finding him again, the prices of all the best equipment go up so that once again you can't afford anything good. the game is designed so that you can only have the worst equipment, while seeing that better equipment is somehow available (maybe it's a meta-game that's trying to tell us something about the economy?). meanwhile, when you die and go thetavern, you can use all your saved fame to buy...different color schemes for the bottom half of the screen! two different character classes that both suck even more ass than the default character! or...custom gravestones that list your high score so you can e-share it with your friends and then cry later, alone! or you can use real life money to buy more fame to let you do these things!

they forgot to let you use your accumulated fame points to do the obvious thing that you want to do, which is buy better equipment or spells that you can use from the beginning.

anyway, if i ever have a kid and they're really smart and can do everything easily, but never really apply themselves or try very hard, i'm going to scold them by saying "you're like that old game Slayin. remember that game? yeah, it sucked really bad and i ended up deleting it even as i was writing a few short paragraphs about it on a messageboard, because i realized i would never, ever play it again. wait, where did you go son"

I think I may have made myself permanently stuck in corrypt five minutes before it gets interesting. good work thomp