iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

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 Funnily enough, Hoplite was originally made during the same 7DRL (seven-day roguelike) game jam that Michael Brough’s 86856527 was, which he worked on after and brought to iOS (and other platforms soon)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

nothing a little relentless hammering of the undo button shouldn't be able to solve

slayin is better than you give it credit for. its a real grind, but its all about learning to play it increasingly well, not about upgrading your character between runs. its more like super hexagon or something than an rpg tbh.

Spelltower is a+ if you like to spell and make towers

nothing a little relentless hammering of the undo button shouldn't be able to solve

ok so i didn't realise i could undo more than one room at a time, i thought i'd borked it by leaving a room in a broken state

i also just played it continuously until i won ('won'). friday night yeah woo

FLAPPY FUCKING BIRD!

fuck you!

Tiny Wings? I've become hopelessly addicted to that, thanks to YOU PEOPLE

xp
Amazing that something so inane could be so infuriating. Probably down to the anxiety of knowing that you're a slight twitch or screen obscuring notification away from losing at any point, plus the jarring effect of having to unlearn decades of positive associations with the green pipes in Mario games.

Got 65 then deleted the damn thing, simply isn't worth the stress.

it's the pardox between simplicity and difficulty

Picked up 1,000,000,000 (or whatever the # is), hoping it will break my current addictions

started doing amphetamines, hoping it will help me cut down on coffee.

hahaha, otm

the 10000000 guy has a new one coming out soon that was originally gonna be an expansion and just turned into its own game

amphetamines, coffee; methadone, heroin, tomato, tomahto

ok flappy bird is pretty perverse but once you get past the first bunch of pipes and it turns into a straight RPG its kind of amazing

wait, its an rpg?

yeah, i'm curious to hear more about that. my friend at work was showing it to me today, and...after watching him go through 15 pipes and die 3 times in a row, i thought that's all there was

i couldn't get through ONE pipe, promptly erased and moved on.
By the way, Front Wars is advance wars, carefully remade and dressed up for iOS
http://www.gamezebo.com/games/front-wars/review

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/02/03/flappy-bird-review-winged-fury/

ok flappy bird is pretty perverse but once you get past the first bunch of pipes and it turns into a straight RPG its kind of amazing

― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 5:44 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah im not usually into rpgs but this is p cool

protip: turn up the sound for the water level

But it’s worrisome that we live in a world that would rocket an almost entirely mindless game like this to insane levels of popularity. Forget video games, what does that say about society as a whole? Have we reached a level of boredom bordering on dangerous if we’re spending our time en masse on something so pointless?

I Love Flappy Bird

the only part of Flappy Bird i enjoy is the spyhunter-esque sequence after you clear the first 40 pipes

Wow, flappy bird is not for me. rage inducing. I can't get past 3.

FB is an exercise in restraint. u have to get to a state of no-flap.

Woo I medaled in flappy

the flapless flap

The mobile game "Flappy Bird" generates $50,000 per day in ad revenue for its Vietnamese developer, Dong Nguyen. Nguyen told The Verge Feb. 5 that the game will not likely receive any more updates because "anything added to the game will ruin it somehow."

nguyen is a weird dude.
http://cdn.toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/poor_dong.png

also for drop 7 types: http://toucharcade.com/2014/02/06/threes-review/

Dong Nguyen is the Tao Lin of video games.

nguyen is a awesome dude

FB is an exercise in restraint. u have to get to a state of no-flap.

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Props

Dong Nguyen is the Tao Lin of video games.

― fields of salmon, Friday, February 7, 2014 3:55 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

You're wrong - Tao Lin is the Dong Nguyen of hipster literature

Warhammer Quest down to $0.99 - will grab based on the rec here

definitely, especially if you like xcom type stuff

tao lin comparison making me never want to touch this game

game much better than tao lin

You will do better on this game on drugs though

i got a gold medal and haven't really picked it up since, but there's a satisfying difficulty level and when you're in the zone it's entrancing