iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

Ah didn't realise this was I Love Games, probably more of a ILE thing.

I was into it for a bit last year, but feel like there was this metagame strategy that people figured out quickly...

i played letterpress a lot when it was new, but only every once in awhile now.

OMG mr jump is so challenging and SO FUN!! seriously it's like aging a brand new nes game, the ones where you die 40 times before you beat the level

1010 was fun, but then got old. Unless I'm missing something besides "this is like tetris except you can't rotate anything."

My kids are getting good at Geometry Dash and it makes me feel old. That game is ridiculous.

my son really likes Geometry Dash too. It's ridiculous how patient kids can be with games like this.

Watching him play is like watching one of those tool-assisted speedruns.

RED ALERT: if you have even a passing interest in the civ games, especially civ rev, you should check out the new sid meier Starships game. i'm playing the iPad version and it is has been addicting. it's $15 for the iOS version so i'm guessing most people will wait. it's also on Steam.

vietnam '65 looks amazing - $10 iOS tho so i'm gonna wait till it's discounted

really did not enjoy device6. found the writing awful and got to the first puzzle and had no interest in carrying on. am i missing something here, is it worth persevering with?

Yeah I didn't get Device 6 at all. I preferred Yearwalk, from the same people.

NI - if you don't like the first part i don't think there's any point persevering. i liked it - at least whiling away a mentally disengaged wet afternoon. more limited than yearwalk tho.

Yearwalk had that great way of delivering hushed-snow spookiness - the way they used the navigation and landscape gave a great sense of strangeness - finding things as in a dream.

really like the invention of both.

I HAVE DEFEATED I AM LEVEL

review: it's $1 and my legs fell asleep while pooping more than once while playing it

HEARTHSTONE

i've been doing a world map game (i can post the exact name if anybody wants it) and my gf and i have learned the countries for every continent but africa and oceania
africa is fucking hard to learn
also got the us states and capitals and canadian provinces
we're gonna do africa finally.

i just downloaded 9 innings 2015

see you guys in 11 months or so

i've been doing a world map game (i can post the exact name if anybody wants it) and my gf and i have learned the countries for every continent but africa and oceania
africa is fucking hard to learn
also got the us states and capitals and canadian provinces
we're gonna do africa finally.

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:53 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha this post is like a message in a bottle from Victorian Britain.

bought myself a Horipad for my birthday; it is a shockingly good gamepad. solid buttons, quality d-pad, decent sticks, and superb ergonomics.

also this game which snuck onto the App Store is a bunch of emulators (SNES, GBA, NES, and Genesis to be specific, all MFI compatible); if you're on any IOS below 8.3 you can apparently add any ROM you want:

http://afterpad.com/post/116954273145/new-release-homebrew-indie-games-multi-system

I'm on 8.3 so I can't verify this, but I picked it up anyway in case someone figures a workaround out down the line; these apps don't typically stick around the app store for very long.

correction, I downgraded to 8.2 and will now figure out how to get hella roms on my ipad

this definitely works perfectly. you will also need to install iExplorer on your computer in order to drop ROMs in the app's document folder. if you're on 8.3, it's still possible to downgrade your iOS to 8.2 since Apple is still signing those installations (for now); here's the guide I followed:

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/downgrade-ios-83-and-restore-82-how-remove-problem-update-your-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-433654

Oh shit... Does Not Commute

Anyone else playing Dominations?

i want to know the name of the map game

it's called "Maps of Our World"
basically they show you a labeled map and then quiz you to tap the right space. it keeps meticulous track of how well you do and then mercilessly drills you on the ones you keep missing.
$10 unlocks all the countries and capitals, 178 mountain ranges, 33 deserts, 100 seas, 500 rivers and an additional 1200 cities along with political maps of Germany, UK, Switzerland and the US
It's been one of the better buys I've made for the ipad quite frankly. Still having a hard time cracking Africa and Oceania; need to set aside some time.
Once we knock out the complete country list, we're going back for capitals and then cities. Probably start working on mountains and seas and stuff sometime in 2016. The upside is that things tend to stay the same; if we take five years to learn this, I think we'll have to relearn a handful of countries but this is good foundational knowledge.

i had ZERO geography in high school or college and it's a point of some embarrassment that it's so difficult to visualize where, say, Brunei is.
But no longer!

I'm playing Dominations, Mordy.

And also Does Not Commute, which rules.

How can I add u poly?

No idea. I'm Miguelito on there though.

Maybe I need to repair the ally gate first

probably easier to add through gamecenter. i'm josephcotten there

is dominations pay to play / war of clans / wait for the timer to tick down so you can do something style?

yes, however it's designed by brian reynolds who worked on civ 2, alpha centauri, and frontierville - the last one of these games that i actually enjoyed (and i think voted for in c+p)

yeah, i'll probably check it out based on his involvement alone!

Because of the timer tickdowns it does feel like progress comes a little slow, but now that I'm winning multiplayer matches and my defense is holding off attackers better I'm starting to feel a bit invested. The main thing is that I only play it for about ten minutes per session. I have more room in my life for that sort of game lately.

maps of our world only available for ipad :(

ah, i was tryna find it for iphone and ?

oh yeah, i dunno about for phones.
GeoBee Challenge also fun but different.

i gave dominations a fair shot, but deleted it last night. i had made it to whatever age lets you pick a country (i went with the germans) and i played a few multiplayer battles and was working toward reaching the little alliance dock area, but i just wasn't having any fun. also, the nagging thought of pay-to-play - yeah, i could join a league and try to rise up through the ranks, but won't i just get wailed on by a bunch of people willing to spend $15 on stuff?

Eh not really afaict the only pay to play is you can pay to have things finish quicker (tho the game gives you plenty of premium currency for free ime) but you can't like buy unique items w crowns.

I'm almost up to the Medieval Age. My defense has been holding up pretty well, and I tend to win my multiplayer matches for the most part. Of course if someone from the Enlightenment Age creeps in they're going to annihilate me but they get a lot more money if they attack someone closer to their level. Haven't spend any irl money yet.

Civ Crafter is another similar game that I've been playing. Also free. Build up your town and then fight other towns or whatever, with some clicker elements. This one in more of a Minecraftish visual style.

One thing I like about Dominations that you can watch replays of the attacks, win or lose, so that you can refine your defenses. And when you attack people you can see how they've set up their town and steal ideas from it.

If they ever manage to port a paradox grand strategy game to tablets I'll never play another game again

http://dg.midey.org/

http://appshopper.com/games/shove-pro

Grim Fandango now on App Store!!!!!

Really enjoying Lifeline. It's barely a game, but very engaging so far.

Loving Alto's Adventure, which was on sale this weekend.