iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

guys, spellpix: http://toucharcade.com/2014/05/05/spellpix-review/

metal slug defense

yup, another sucker for Tiny Dice Dungeon here

any idea what that "+" icon on the top left of the battle screen means? the one next to your number of Phoenix Downs

man, when you win in multiplayer, some opponents might have 100,000+ dice. and you can't stop the animation, it's painful, and goes on FOREVER

tales of the adventure company. another rpg/puzzle blend!

VVVVVV any good?

yes

great game on PCs, assume iOS port is similarly great

at zachlyon's rec I tried out Quadropus Rampage, not too shabby. endless smasher, vaguely Bastion-like in action mechanics
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quadropus-rampage/id635874036?mt=8

highly recommend towelfight by those same devs too.

damn, missed that being free by a couple weeks

rpg/upgrade elements in quadropus are great, just a really well-constructed game

and as opposed to MPQ and its constant real-time based life-wasting mechanics quadropus actually makes me take breaks to wait for the next day's doubloon/coin spinner if i have a good run going and want to collect enough doubloons for a res

of course i just beat pete so i don't know how long i'll stay interested but still

i played that game for ages and still only barely made a dent in pete.

ok, Soccer Stars, anyone?

tips to get higher than my 52% success?

this flick kick football legends game is pretty lol and fun

esp. the little player quotes on the backs of their player cards eg. "football is like a pint. it's delicious and cold and then you drink it."

RFI any of the panzer tactics/general/blitz series of games/DOS clones?

rfi has anyone beat ziggurat

afaik nobody has beaten ziggurat, think i heard the creator say that a couple weeks ago

monument valley on sale.

world of tanks blitz is really fun

my google search bar rn: "kim kardashian game tips"

i just want to know why i can show up to an event in a hoodie and a peasant skirt and have the paparazzi all over my dick, and then other times i show up in an expensive gown and they give me shade.

yeah but what do you want to know about the kim kardashian game

ha

okay lol xp

right now the kim k game server is down, and people on twitter are angrily tweeting kim kardashian to ask her when it will be fixed. it's like c'mon guys, digging a hole in the ground and whispering "the kim k game server is down" into it is more likely to produce a fixed game server than asking kim kardashian.

somebody's paying up that $85M to her, might as well complain

Any recommendations here?
http://toucharcade.com/2014/08/15/cartoon-network-99-cent-sale/

def card wars

is it any good on an iphone or does it need an ipad?

It's not on the list, but Hoplite! Fans of 868-HACK will love it

i wouldn't play card wars on an iphone but i think it's doable

ok, i'll floop the pig

Fiz is so slow and dull. Geared against you from the outset.

I think I'm doing it wrong (as the actress said to the bishop).

max_read, do you play hoplite, and if so, do you rank 50th out of 2,074 players with a top score of 151?

wwe supercard

i came here to say that

yeah for real

IAP's :((( I know where this will lead.

I only downloaded it to get a $5 GameStop coupon, but Tyrant Unleashed isn't a bad card game

i played it a little - the theme is cool but the mechanics were too boring to keep my attention (lol bc i'm still playing wwe supercard)

Just got my 6+, upgrade from my 4S. The new screen makes games look totally amazing, even stuff like Puzzle and Dragons and Marvel Puzzle Quest have upscaled assets with great color and resolution. The aforementioned Tyrant Unleashed looks pretty awesome too

http://bogost.com/writing/swing-copters-the-randomness-of-the-universe-captured-in-pixels/

anyone else playing Galaxy Trucker? good lord it's fun.

so i heard.
i had a go at banner saga and it's very complex. i should maybe get galaxy trucker?

Banner Saga is pretty great on the desktop, anyway. Story and atmosphere are unrelentingly sad/moody/bleak so far, which is great. I love Galaxy Trucker as a board game but I've never really been big into iPad board game adaptations. I have always more friends who will play board games with me in real life than who have iPads, and there's no point in playing strangers unless it's a highly competitive thing with good matchmaking.

i was a big fan of the board game, which is a blast to play with friends, so i'm probably a bit biased. but i'm very pleasantly surprised at how well the single player mode works. for those who haven't played the board game, it's basically a two-phase game. in the first, you madly scramble to grab pieces from a shared pool and construct your ship as a timer ticks down. unless you're rain man, you're desperately grabbing pieces and seeing what fits and trying to build a diverse ship and there's not enough time and it's stressful and awesome. in phase two, you and the rest of the players go through 8 to 16 "events" and you see how your hastily constructed ship holds up. the events range from asteroids flying at you from different angles (randomly determined), visiting planets to collect resources, spending batteries to boost your engines and gain ground in the space race, etc. there's way more to it than that, but the success in phase 2 is largely determined by how efficiently and quickly you build your ship during the scramble at the beginning. at the end of the events phase everyone is scored on a variety of categories - whose ship held up the best, who picked up the most resources, who finished first in the race, etc. it's a fast paced game in real life and even more so on the ipad version, which of course streamlines everything.

fwiw the good folks at pockettactics rate it highly as well:

Galaxy Trucker isn’t a game for everyone. People looking for a sober and realistic space game will hate its light-hearted tone. People who only play games to win will hate it. Perfectionists who can’t stand to watch their creations explode will hate it. You shouldn’t hang out with these people. These are bad people who are just wrong because Galaxy Trucker is too good not to love. Honestly, I can’t find any flaws with the game, and can see myself playing it for years. Galaxy Trucker isn’t merely the best board game on iPad this year, it’s the best board game on iPad ever.

the reason that the single player mode is surprisingly fun is that it has a really long campaign with special scenarios for most missions. for example, in one mission you might be tasked with safeguarding two special radioactive cargo parts to your ship that explode if any of the adjacent pieces are damaged. or you might have a mission that heavily bombards you with asteroids, so you have to emphasize shields/batteries/lasers more than you normally would. i don't know, it's just simple stuff like that but it keeps each mission fresh, and it's an element of the game that's absent from the real life board game version so it adds something new to the ipad version.

im stoked