iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

Flappy Golf has been a solid time waster.

i bought a bunch of year end games to see what was what and oh boy desert golfing has eaten up a lot of time instantly
very atari 2600

i like desert golfing but if it had an 18 or 9 hole mode with leaderboards i would play it more often. i know that's counter to its ethos or whatev

i paid a dollar to bitcoin billionaire so i could have a pet.

I'm up to hole 150/shot 435 on desert golf. I'd be doing a lot better but I had a catastrophic 40-50 shot hole on one drunken evening.

I'm up to hole 600 in 1972 shots. I'd be doing better but I had a 120 shot hole early on.

Sometimes the randomly generated levels really screw you

welp, tap titans

Is that just a cookie clicker? Just say no.

it's... a little more.
http://toucharcade.com/2015/01/02/tap-titans-review-the-clicker-levels-up/

ugh, the agony of desert golfing

http://i.imgur.com/n69pkCp.png

are the levels randomly generated (as i assumed upthread), or does everyone encounter this level? i'm assuming it will add at least 30 shots to my score.

I've gotten that one and somehow one shot it.

But this game is not doing a good job of holding my attention. I need some badges to earn or something.

yeah, increasingly as the game goes on the most compelling thing is trying to mentally divide # of shots by the hole # to figure out what my shots/hole score is.

also there's the there thrill of wondering what would happen if you got to hole #100,000,000 or whatever, and the flag was so long that it began to come into contact with the surrounding landscape. what THEN??

I don't remember when I got that hole but I do remember it. Then again I'm past hole 1000 now and they're all kind of merging together in my head now.
A hole in one is certainly possible but you'd need to get it just right with the bounce off the hill.
The other option is to chip it to the bottom of the hill and take a couple of shots to roll it up to the hole.
Anything with a high parabola is doomed to a disaster though.

i'm on hole 601 with 1964 shots, so right around 3.3 par

chip it all the way up the hill with horizontal strokes; the ball will lie at an angle and not roll back if you hit it right

What makes it such a dreadful appeal to want to download and play desert golfing now? I mean, I've been forewarned by you guys... Thinking of getting to 600+ levels and the time it must consume makes me reject the notion and feel bad already without having even hit one ball. And yet, and yet... Do I hate life?

it's fun! and effortless! i have no guilt.

Oh I'm gonna play! Wasn't meant to cause you to feel guilty, that was specially reserved for me :)

One level has a rock

There all sorts of little things that crop up. There's a rock, a cactus, a water feature, a face carved into the side of a hill etc.

I know that's not true, but I'm going to push forward anyway to make sure.

there's definitely a cactus

the colour scheme changes too, but so slowly you don't notice it

1311/409

i guess if you play it long enough, the most noticeable thing that changes is yourself. makes you think.

http://i.imgur.com/Dz2z60J.jpg

Game make Hulk smash. Hulk delete game.

Hulk otm

omg i thought you were all joking about the cactus. that was amazing! totally worth the wait

he wasn't kidding about any of that stuff! there are little changes.

KAIROSOFT GAMES/SIM GAMES IN GEN: plz s/d!!

Game Dev Story is my jam right now and I wanna get some more sims. I don't like how freemium Tiny Tower is and I was kinda unimpressed w/ Hot Springs Story.

I hear Mega Mall is good, which looks SimTowery which I love. What are the best Kairo games to get? Is there anything vaugely reminiscent of RollerCoaster Tycoon (i.e. you have some land and you have to make cool stuff happen and paths and people and all of that)?

game dev is about as good as kairosoft gets sorrty to say.

Hot Springs is my favorite I think

Mega Mall is maybe the easiest of the ones I played

I think Grand Prix Story is closest in gameplay to Game Dev. Design cars, see how they perform on the track, unlock upgrades. I enjoyed it. Pocket Academy was fun, too.

A lot of Kairosoft games get too samey for me. Their more recent city/town-building games have been like that.

I'm at the point in Game Dev Story where I'm 15 years in, I always have at least 50 to 100 million in the bank at all times, every game I make gets Hall of Fame'd and hits #1 in sales.

What do I do now?

That's all there is

but are your games art?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGlB4GhXVAs

mega mall story is fun but I feel like there are things I'm missing

i.e. should I be adding all these new features to my stores? Because I'm not all that much, and it seems to be making very little difference.

should I be building multiples of the same store and if so how far apart? If they're on adjacent floors will that kill business?

Re: the desert golfing video. The level I'm on is almost exactly 10 minutes into the video.

just got a 5-star mall by y9 m7 w4; felt like I just coasted and that so many of all of the little intricacies (adding features to stores, hiring ppl based on the types of stores that they boost, having sales, escalators and elevators and most of the facilities, etc) were entirely inconsequential, which makes it seem like a pretty flimsy game

I mean I only just built my 8th floor like a month before I got 5 stars

yep. i've played 4 or 5 different kairosoft games and they all feel the same. there's always a nice golden age of playtime about 2-3 hours in (or 3-5 "years" into the game i guess) where things are really fun, and then it just fizzles.

game dev story and the rpg ones were my favorite, but that mainly just comes down to subject matter preferences.

I was hoping for something as engrossing and complex as SimTower but either a) I was much younger at the time and it actually wasn't all that complex or b) this game is just a really watered down version

it's B

at least some of the others have that weird diagonal-grid layout like RollerCoaster Tycoon so I'll pick up one of those and maybe it'll be fun... what's the RPG one? Like Epic Astro? That was what I was gonna get next.

Game Dev is cool! But there's really quite little to do, ultimately.

throwing in tons and tons of features that actually make very little difference in a game looks suuuuuuper sloppy to me, prob more so than to most ppl

idk i want things to be legitimately complex

i think the RPG one is just called RPG Story.

but if you're looking for complexity, you're not gonna find it in a kairosoft game!

then where do I find it??? what are some complex mobile games? I like sims but they don't even have to be sims tbh