iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

did it add a fucking high scores list? it's unbelievable that it tells you your score when you die, and doesn't track it anywhere. that's like half the fun with a roguelike, to try to beat your own high score!

no it didn't

what's fun is to try to make it another level further so that you get to start at a higher level the next time you die, un rogue like there but I like it

fairway solitaire has an obnoxious "buy our other games" splash screen even after you've paid for it, it's still iphone 4-sized, it is WAY too big for a card game, it's super slow and annoying and yet, fuck, i cant stop playing the stupid thing

I only play it on the iPad.

Has there ever been a best iOS game poll?

iOS games are counted in Coint + Plick but i don't think ilx has run an exclusively iOS game poll

I think it would be interesting to see them compete against themselves. Unlike other all time game polls, I don't think there would be as much bias to the new latest and greatest game.

Anyway, people who like running polls, consider it in the future.

a+ would vote.

(and yeah, play the new course packs of fairway every day)

i keep playing those new course packs too. man those final bonus tracks to unlock after the campaign mode are realllly expensive

i am also chained to fairway solitaire

still on Tiny Tower

24 floors, also my new favorite renaming is JUNGLE APTS --> YES IT'S RACIST

haha

Ridiculous Fishing is my game of the moment

it's so great. quintessential iphone game

But... $3!

That's too much? I so rarely look at price, unless it is a final fantasy game.

BETTER COME QUICK IF YOU WANT ANYTHING FROM THE QBERT SEX SWING

I will never get tired of this

i think i'm mostly done with slayin' but still can't recommend enough

But... $3!

Cup of fancy coffee

i have one last fish to catch

getting the last fish drove me crazy. but once you get it, the game doesn't really have anything else for you except trying to get deeper on the last level :-(

Really wish there was some more content there.

I cannot get past 6 fish left. How deep do you have to go to get them?!

I enjoyed the art and music in Ridiculous Fishing, but found playing the game to actually be a chore & sort of shit (after the shine of the first couple of minutes). Little things missing made it even more annoying, like no reset when you screw up. I feel like the first part of the game, dodging fish is okay, but then coming up and catching fish is less fun (and seems to take forever) and shooting the fish once you get to the surface is boring and also takes too long.

I hate that it stops spotify anytime I try to play. iOS developers should let me decide when I want to listen to my music or their shitty soundtracks over and over.

I'm looking at you hexagon.

the last fish are rare and there are secrets to getting them. to get most of them you have to get through the credits sequence first, and then they're scattered about. there are spoiler guides online that explain the tricks.

i feel like i played an almost-identical game (in terms of mechanics) but with different graphix before? anyone know what im talkin bout?

aha it was NINJA FISHING

http://toucharcade.com/2011/07/20/a-seafood-buffet-radical-fishing-ridiculous-fishing-and-ninja-fishing/

yeah, ninja fishing was a rip off off this in its original flash form

i've been playing Fairway Solitaire and liked it for a while but am now basically done it, like even went back and got three stars on levels i didn't get three stars on and now i'm at the point where they want me to pay points for new levels. but i'm also kind of bored of it. it's sort of my kind of game, but sort of not.

i also tried playing Tiny Tower but i'm not sure what the point of it is?? you build a tower and put people in it and give them jobs and money accumulates and you buy more floors and stuff with it. and so on. where are the problems to solve (and possibly monsters)? i don't get it.

i've also been playing this game called Jewels that a friend suggested to me, which is good for playing while waiting for things or watching episodes of some tv show, mostly fringe.
i like it because i like Tetris, but it is no Tetris. I should prob just get Tetris. But what game is out there that is a bit more like tetris meets a kind-of-quick narrative (i have no patience for things like zelda) + unlocking levels that are new&different?

Dream of Pixels is like an anti- or reverse- tetris thing where you carve tetris pieces of of this descending cloud. Its quite good + it has multiple gameplay modes + puzzles that are fun and tricky.

Its the only falling-stuff puzzle-ish thing that I've played on ios that I've really enjoyed.

cool, thanks!

rrrobyn, you know that fairway solitaire gives you three new courses every day for free right? (well, you have to unlock the second and third ones through challenge cups or in game money. but not real money.)

oh i know, yeah i wasn't being clear about "pay" meaning game money, haha, kind of silly, i know
and i will continue to play fairway solitaire regardless

In which Tombot attempts to mathematics:

It looks like over half my tiny tower bitizens are in their dream job. Since I have evenly distributed types of workplaces ( not favoring creative or food over retail or service, etc) and the bitizens' dream job attribute is randomly assigned, that means I have more than half of the possible workplaces, right?

If you're not tyrantin' all over your complex, kicking out the poor fools who don't match your shop requirements with a high rating you're doin it wrong

haha that is how i was playing it and i felt as triumphant as i felt underhanded. tyranny.

This looks promising, will report back:
http://www.mighty-dungeons.com/

I'm so bad at slayin

Interestingly as I approach 100 floors I now am able to feel both ashamed of my mistakes and frustrated at the impudence of fate just as I were playing a real game with failure and consequences and shit. This weekend I accidentally built TWO recreational floors in a row, causing demand for that class to drop, and on top of that motherfuckin' Tiny Tower God gave me a goddamn theatre and a planetarium, which FUCK YOU only one guy has a dream job at the theater so the rest are seasonal stiffs who stock at the normal rate. Slowing down my revenue means it takes forever to build new floors so recovering from this tactical error is going to take all week. SHIT.

Also this game proves, perversely, the value of collective bargaining. If my 180 wage slave population individually approached me for free rent, I'd happily oblige, since rent is now a piddle proportion of my daily profit. If they struck for a larger slice of the pie that currently accrues I, as the "benevolent" overlord of this arcology that exists strictly as a vehicle for my amusement and outlet for my various latent mental disorders, I'd be well fucked. Firing my dream jobbers would be excruciating. If there's anything to learn from Tiny Tower, it's that scabs should be a terrifying prospect for any capitalist - thankfully, Tiny is a right-to-work state, like all game development studios and other "creative" workplaces.

important post

hah!

tombot u are a giant in the field of video game criticism imho

still remember this after all these years:

I realized this morning that FFT/FFTA should really just be renamed "Final Fantasy: Human Resources Management," I mean I'm only a few hours in and I already feel like I should be putting together Training And Orientation For New Hires packets or some shit. "Take him down the hall, get his badge made up, issue him a White Staff, Leather Garb and send him on a Level 1 Dispatch." WHY IS IT FUN?

-- TOMBOT (bes...), February 25th, 2005.

Short version: this is actually a game that teaches the player that the instrumental variable in any enterprise is the productivity of your workforce, and the role of the management must be to optimize that while hoping that circumstances will make it easy to do so. There's no "making lemonade," there's just sucking it up and waiting for a slow spell to pass. And trying not to make basic executive fuckups like overinvesting in a saturated market. AAAARGH.

i'm glad that people can find value in tiny towers. personally i blame it for the great seasonal depression of spring '12

saved up to buy the wizard in slayin and am terrible at controlling him. with sword dude i can get through maybe three bosses before its all over.

meanwhile i finally got two more heros on nimble numble but i think that sucked out the rest of my motivation to play because the next will be a bear to get to.

Also thank goodness there's no feature where the cute little people show up late three times in a row because of recidivist partying tendencies stemming from a rough patch with their lover, or have to move back to Wyoming for family disasters, or get diagnosed with rare wtf.

I had a spree on nimble quest this weekend, I got the demon and the forest freak and everybody has 2 stars and it is devastating. Until I get to graveyard 2 and shit gets completely out of hand - but that's how the depths felt, and the castle before that, so I know I can overcome once I get over the fact that all the other levels are totally boring now. Oops.

how did you get everyone to two stars? loading up on gems?

Yup. Half grinding for Xp to cut the price, half grinding for cash to pay up. Also trying out some diff "techniques" to see if there's better or worse ways to snake for MAXIMUM CARNAGE. My tip is to roam the edges until money or easy pickings draw you into the center; once in the open, weave back and forth so your trailers can all get more shots off and at least a few folks are always "insulated" from shots

Rats and bats are the worst imho