iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

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

this may lean too far in the other direction of complexity, but you might check out pocket tactics.com, specifically their reviews section and best of 2014 and 2013 awards. they might lean a little bit too much toward wargames and WWII simulators and stuff like that, but they also review a good amount of unique strategy/tactics games that you probably wouldn't hear about otherwise.

The thing I especially liked about Hot Springs was that it was kind of a feng shui game ... it's really about placing the right objects near each other to make the space more harmonious, as well as trying to find a balance that appeals to different demographics. It's not deep in implementation but the idea is really fun imo. Mega Mall and the restaurant one borrow some of those ideas but Hot Springs does it best.

I always wanted to try Oh Edo Towns but never got around to it. Anyone played that one? Or the cruise ship one?

maybe i'll reinstall hot springs

do you really get bonuses for feng shui? that's really cute and chill and zen

cars are boring wars are boring space is okay

zen is zen

Stevie keep me posted on what you find! That's a category I like too

everyone knows the best part of game dev story is giving your games really dirty horrible names. if you're not doing that you're missing out.

I found the whole concept of MMS to be really inherently gross so I called my mall Gross Mall and that's been making me smile

I've tried a few, but fell off any Kairosoft game where I had to lay out a place or explore dungeons/space. I liked Game Dev Story (can't beat your first hit of the kairo), Grand Prix Story and Pocket League Story - so I guess I prefer their 'develop a thing and compete' model.

now i'm at the ponit where I have 20 million and every single square of my mall is built so

uh

this is boring

now I just have to get all the regulars and build one of each store but considering I can't fucking sort stores by performance this is just a really dumb guessing game.

yup. that's why i gave up after Game Dev Story

goty material it sounds like http://toucharcade.com/2015/01/08/behind-the-back-free-to-play-endless-runner-review/

Is Crossy Road the first game to actually have a built-in Let's Play-style recording feature? It's designed to record your gameplay + the front-facing camera to capture your reactions and commentary simultaneously as a picture-in-picture.

Never knew that. Sounds horrible!

i have that app installed but haven’t played it yet. that feature better be opt-in

yeah it is, it's totally unobtrusive if you don't click on it

I was actually praising the feature to be honest *hides* not that I'll ever use it myself

Given the popularity of LPs and YouTube vloggers and whatever seems to be the way of the future now

Crossy Road is the best

Love this! It's basically Jet Set Willy for iPad but it really, really works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsxHlCITEk

i'm playing cross road but don't think i'm gamecenter friends with anyone except for jimdoo!

i'm at 150 or so as a top score.

i started playing crossy road this week after my kids finally nudged me to try it and I like it! best toilet game of the year? high praise!

definitely the best toilet game of the year