aka "How I came to devote all of my spare time to Aurora Feint"
― HI DERE, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
who's she? sounds sexy
― s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/16/mini-review-aurora-feint-for-iphoneipod-touch/
This is one of the best puzzle games I've played in a while. The best part is the tilting portion; SO FUCKING COOL.
They're adding all of these RPGish elements later on involving equipable power-ups that can be levelled as you play the game. so so so great
Can't believe this thing is still free!
― HI DERE, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
But where's it leading to Dan? I'm playing it a lot too, but I don't really know why. I've maxed out a few of the skills or whatever, but they don't seem to make much difference to anything. I've tried adding friends, but it can't find any for me. And the game itself is cute, but not really challenging enough to hold my interest in itself. I think it's really just their promise that it's the first part of what will everntually be some big fancy MMO which is keeping me playing it.
Anyway. Monkey Ball is pretty ace, although the tilt thing is a bit touchy, sometimes it feels hypersensitive but others it needs to be tilted so far that I can't even see the screen. Liking it a lot despite that though.
Tap Tap Revenge is a nice little DDR clone, enjoy it when I'm playing it but definitely don't feel compelled to go back to it that often.
Just tried the Crash Bandicoot kart game on someone else's phone, framerate is shocking but the control feels nice enough to make up for that. Doubt I'll fork out for it though.
The freebie 3d mahjong is crud. As is the tiltable maze game.
― JimD, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, if you've ever played any Puzzle Quest, Aurora Feint starts to feel like a HUGE ripoff.
― JimD, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Never played Puzzle Quest.
I think the fact that you're still playing it even though you're kind of fed up with it says a lot for how well they've implemented the gameplay for this thing.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that mah jongg game!
― HI DERE, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
the fact that you're still playing it even though you're kind of fed up with it says a lot for how well they've implemented the gameplay
Yeah, definitely. It just feels right.
It could do with a bugfix too though. Some bits of text seem to hang off the side of my screen in some of the submenus, and given that those bits of text explain what the level ups actually do, I suspect they're probably pretty important.
― JimD, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
no Peggle, no peace
― jamescobo, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Still as addicted to Bejeweled as I was on Nokia 6600 years ago
― stet, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Aurora Feint is like Bejeweled + even more crack
― HI DERE, Friday, 18 July 2008 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
ah that sounds like puzzle quest, exactly.
― s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
ok must play Puzzle Quest
― HI DERE, Friday, 18 July 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
aurora feint = pure crack.
it's just like bejeweled + leveling + competition anxiety of MMORPG
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 20 July 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
why is there no brain training for iphone
;_;
jesus christ
http://stuffetc.de/AF/46865.jpg
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 20 July 2008 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Just started playing Trism, seems like lots of fun.
― JimD, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
lol Aurora Feint was removed from the Apple store over spyware concerns
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
:O
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/5026065/sega-says-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast
― DG, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Aurora+Feint:+The+Beginning/news.asp?c=8000
Doesn't sound all that bad really.
― JimD, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, hold on...
http://gizmodo.com/5028459/aurora-feint-iphone-app-delisted-for-lousy-security-practices
Yeah, if they're failing to encrypt it then maybe is does sound that bad.
― JimD, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that's kind of a massive "oops"
― HI DERE, Thursday, 24 July 2008 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Update dropped this morning, so the security thing is fixed now. Haven't tried it yet, but apparently there are gameplay updates too.
So Dan, if we want to clan up in this thing we need to have each other's details in our contact lists, right? We should exchange numbers!
― JimD, Friday, 25 July 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The name of that game is ridiculously porn star-y.
― Nhex, Friday, 25 July 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
yes to all these number exchanges
djperry at g mail dot com
― HI DERE, Friday, 25 July 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
-- JimD, Friday, July 25, 2008 5:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
slick pick-up line dude.
― s1ocki, Saturday, 26 July 2008 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
how's the number list exchange work?
― kingfish, Monday, 11 August 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Kinda doesn't. I was sniffing round their forums the other day though, and got the impression it maybe hasn't been properly implemented yet.
― JimD, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anybody seen Frotz? http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/
― kingfish, Thursday, 14 August 2008 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey Aurora Feint, you know that other game you shamelessly plagiarised? Well, it's coming.
Anyone played anything else decent of late? I like Imangi a lot, Ashpalt 4 is suprisingly diverting, (although frame rate issues kill it really), Spore Origins was pretty disappointing. And oh, I tried Billy Frontier. Utter shite.
― JimD, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, er, it wasn't me, it was Dan.
Still, yeah, it exists already.
― JimD, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
A friend of mine "plays" Aurora Feint by shaking his iPhone, then quickly swiping his finger back and forth across the screen. He scores considerably higher than I do. ;_;
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 fieldrunners
― bnw, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 Trism
― jamescobo, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend showed me the ocarina app, which isn't a game, but I thought it was pretty cool.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
So that mysterious "A NEW METAL GEAR IS...":
http://www.konami-digital-entertainment.co.jp/en/news/release/2008/1217/index.html
― circa1916, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Er, "NEXT" rather.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
My favourite iPhone/iTouch game is Virtual Pool, but I'm keen to see this Katamari conversion I saw on some website.
― treefell, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Rolando coming tomorrow
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
who's he?
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
is anybody not cool w/me changing the name of this thread to add /iPod Touch in between iPhone and Games
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
HOW DARE YOU SIR
― jamescobo, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Do it (do it now!).
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone played the new one by the dude who did gran turismo, space deadbeef?
― cozwn, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I wanted to until I found out it was a scrolling shooter.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 18 December 2008 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
THIS is Rolando
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Thursday, 18 December 2008 05:58 (fifteen years ago) link
ipod Tooch!
― VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Thursday, 18 December 2008 06:56 (fifteen years ago) link
that's nasty
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Thursday, 18 December 2008 06:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Playing Rolando now. Not sure how long i'll stick with it, but it's a step forward in terms of design, music & presentation. LocoRoco with cartoon Florida oranges or not, it's still fun.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Thursday, 18 December 2008 07:32 (fifteen years ago) link
entire world seems to agree that iphone katamari is a sin against god and capitalism
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh the auto play function has done wonders for my screen time. Select bozo one two three four five. Check gear one two yup yup looks fine. HAVE FUN STORMING THE DUNGEON
at this point you put the phone down and can just pick it up on occasion to make sure they didn't all get killed. Like I said, the dumbness level is kind of astounding. Does my flight simulator joke make more sense now?
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
Anyone played the sorcery! games? Any cop?
― stet, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
I read glowing reviews of them and treasure the memory of the books - they're on my wishlist.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link
Yes. They're great, like 80 Days but not as hyped. They're a lot more fun if you discipline yourself not to use the rewind option, IMO. Books: better with permadeath!
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
I played the first Sorcery and liked it.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Thanks! £5 spent
― stet, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Love 'em. Play through them in order: each game gives you a code you can use to portage yr. inventory from one game to the next.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
Soda Dungeon update!
OK so the only two bosses with a twist are the ones I already "complained" about up above - with sufficient buffs your party will walk through the entire rest of the game, including the "final" boss, on autoplay. Autoplay mode does not stop for dialogue boxes, it does not stop for treasure selection screens, it does not stop to make you choose between divergent paths, it'll just wait a little bit and then keep going. I have no idea what it's like to fight the 9th dungeon boss, or the giant extra-dimensional alien at the "end," other than a deep and abiding hunch that they are 1) the dumbest 2) easily crushed by the repeated application of the technique known as "tapping"
Now I'm in the WARRIOR DIMENSION and apparently there is some other stuff you can do, like collect bottle caps and shit? At this point though my relic buffs are so intense that five junkies in their underwear with a single stool and broken bottle among them can get all the way to level 240-something in the Lair of Despair before something finally wipes them out.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 28 January 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Dc-J_mD7c
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 30 January 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
I really wish they would add more levels to Mario Run. It's a fun game but there are hardly any levels, and it gets pretty dull pretty fast. How expensive could it really be for Nintendo just to release a few more levels? I feel they they really weren't listening to people here
― Evan R, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
And now Nintento has updated the game, changing around a bunch of stuff and adding some things. But still no new levels.
― Evan R, Thursday, 2 February 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
i really hate them for the fact that you need to be connected to play this game. i hadn't realised that when buying it before going on a long plane ride, imagine my disappointment on board.
― Jibe, Thursday, 2 February 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
yeah. designed to cut down on piracy, I'm sure, but it doesn't work well. It sometimes glitches after I finish a level and won't save my progress. Also how hard is it to offer an online mode?
― Evan R, Thursday, 2 February 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I finally finished everything, I have 9999 toads, and I'd love some new levels. I'd even pay another $5 or something.
― DJI, Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
Soda Dungeon has at least 4,697 levels! No online mode for some reason
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
I've got Realm Grinder lined up next. I'm going to get to the bottom of this "idle RPG" phenomenon.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 5 February 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
21,802 on Pac-Man 256
*drops mic*
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link
this is how michael jordan must have felt when he first retired in 1993
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
what game will be your baseball?
― mh 😏, Thursday, 9 February 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
Possibly the new version of MLB the show, which I'm terrible at. Maybe there's a minor league mode where I can be appropriately terrible.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2017 07:49 (seven years ago) link
These Sorcery games are top fun for sure. First one is a bit short for £5 but it ticks up from there quickly
― stet, Friday, 10 February 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
Stagehand is maddening.
― Jeff, Friday, 10 February 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
freeways u guys. its so good
― carles danger mous (s.clover), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 02:53 (six years ago) link
new thread is here dude
Thread for iOS games 2017-2023: shame, loathing and recommendations
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 03:20 (six years ago) link
For all you super hexagon junkies out there:https://tocogames.itch.io/infinitepizzaunfortunately windows only
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
Townscaper
More of a beautiful toy than an actual game. Recommended.
― lukas, Thursday, 21 October 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
ooooh did not know there was an iphone version. insta-buy
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 October 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
sold me
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
I have been playing star battle go (ie. the New York Times Two No Touch game) a genuinely sickening amount this month
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 21 October 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
Lol I have knocked out about 150 easy puzzles. I still don’t quite get the hard ones
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 October 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
I’m on expert! Medium wasn’t too bad, you just have to be fastidious/obsessive and taking a break helps if you’re stuck. The Experts are similar to Medium but at some point you have to dive in and start guessing several moves ahead… fortunately the undo button makes this (slightly) less existentially terrifying. Medium is probably a bit more fun - I feel more rewarded by slow deduction work than “planning out a quadrillion moves ahead” work
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 October 2021 09:45 (two years ago) link
Wow have I ever become addicted to this. I don’t have a “medium” though (unless I missed an IAP) - just easy and hard.
― stet, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Yes, I meant easy hard and expert. That’s on the iOS version of star battle go.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
Back in IOS after 5 years on Android and the only thing I’m missing so far is a decent simple Mahjong game. Do any of you have recommendations? Looking for something with a timer for ADHD hyper focus tapathons ideally
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
― lukas, Thursday, October 21, 2021 9:51 AM (one month ago)
Playing this in a browser and it is honestly easier and more fun with the hover preview telling you where you're about to build.
I wonder if iPhone / iPad will ever get something like that?
http://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/
― lukas, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
agreed - press should be hover and release to place it
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 December 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
i wanted this to have more complexity and gamishness to it.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 December 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
let go
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 December 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
High Rise is great plane fodder. I wish more iOS games worked without wifi.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 2 December 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
i need y’all to watch this ad for a game i just got served on instagram pic.twitter.com/ywcywCJsQd— helen (@helen) December 9, 2021
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 9 December 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
I am way too much of a sucker for F2P season pass mechanics.Marvel Snap is pretty fun, gotta say
― Nhex, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
I like Marvel Snap but it doesn't grab me like Marvel Puzzle Quest did. I like the idea that you can only buy cosmetic improvements to your cards in theory, but I'm not super motivated to make my cards shinier. I like the announcement of the upgrade of a card (THREE DEEEEE) more than the upgrade itself.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
the fancier/more expensive they get, the more bauble-y
the upgrades are really just to make the feedback loop going, where you get more cards. but at the certain point (probably around lvl 250?) you start being resource-constrained. thankfully the game is still very playable by that point, you should have a ton of cards and possible decks
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 November 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
still playing Snap. i played constantly the past week to go from rank 60 to 65 and back to 59, worse than i started for the season
filled for hatred for myself and life in general, why do i do this to myself
― Nhex, Monday, 12 December 2022 04:41 (one year ago) link
maybe best to break for awhile?
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 December 2022 06:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlIWVv79_OQ
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 6 October 2023 13:10 (ten months ago) link
netflix has surprisingly been pretty good in this space
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 October 2023 01:21 (ten months ago) link
Trying to redownload the desktop but can't locate the link
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 18:06 (six months ago) link
Nevermind. This is the wrong thread. Right thread is over here of course: Zing: A (beta) ILX client for Macs
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 19:29 (six months ago) link
I remembered the key word "beta."
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 19:30 (six months ago) link