iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

I'm terrible at toad rally.

You have to do as many special moves and get as many coins as possible. Basically, the amount of coins you get largely determines whether you win or lose, and the amount of special moves you do (combined w/ special moves yr opponent does) determines how many toads you'll get for winning:

http://www.polygon.com/super-mario-run/2016/12/18/13971718/toad-rally-get-tickets-tips-tricks

what are the "special moves" - like comboing off goomba's heads? with only one "button" there isn't a whole lot you can do but I do feel like I'm missing a few things

http://www.polygon.com/super-mario-run/2016/12/18/13971718/toad-rally-get-tickets-tips-tricks

this is more in-depth:

http://www.polygon.com/super-mario-run/2016/12/18/13983382/stylish-moves-guide-toad-rally

My problem is I get distracted by ghost me.

yes that is v distracting and annoying esp when yr neck and neck.

Reigns and Alto's Adventure both $1 right now. Worth my "valuable" time?
Still haven't splurged on Mario Run yet. Skeptical.

alto's is great.

Reigns sucks

alto is a generic runner that looks pretty. i got bored after an hour.

but but but but ACHIEVEMENTS

I got Broken Age. $1 seemed like a good deal for that
Still want a refund on Reigns

u guyz

Rly disappointed with Mini Metro. It's so well designed that it seems like it would have a lot of depth, but it's p superficial. There are too many weird variables and too few constants to make it legit urban planny, which is fine, but then why make it ostensibly a transit-building game?

Like to win you have to build strange patterns that would be wildly impractical for an actual subway system and my brain is just like "NO YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY BUILD TRAINS LIKE THAT!!!!!"

It's just a puzzle game! Are you expecting railroad tycoon?

I mean vaguely? Like maybe something a little more transity and a little less totally-arbitrary-shapes-mover?

Also why are there like 20 levels when they are all virtually identical? Like if everything is generated as randomly as it is, it doesn't make much diff where the rivers. You can take identical approaches to every damn level.

aw man if you know the cities it's cool to play their different maps, at least it is for me. plus the rates of growth of new nodes and of distances between nodes varies with the cities. and some cities have different types of trains too.

also I live in Paris and the métro map here is weirder than any one I've concocted in the game yet

xp I've actually ridden abt half of the systems in this game and yeah it is p fun and novel at first. I didn't realize stuff spawned at diff rates and distances on diff levels, it all seems the same so far.

Isn't the game more of a bus line simulator than trains? I think the Waypoint guys were talking to some urban planners about this a coupla months ago

My problem is I get distracted by ghost me.
― Jeff, Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:15 AM

haha that shit is annoying!! just a really poor design decision or is it intended as part of the difficulty. what does leveling up the castle do anyways

Helped when I started playing with Yoshi more. Unless it is against another yoshi.

oh my god soda dungeon is so dumb, you guys

it sort of pushes my "logistical decisions are the only ones that really matter" button but it also, let's be frank, doesn't really contain any decisions that matter. it's a clicker

yep. i played through it obsessively twice and have erased it twice.

Got all those damn coins in Mario finally. Good game.

Love/hating Really Bad Chess Now. Like it but I reach a level and I get impatient thinking about potential moves and just lose.

Still stuck on the black coins in the later levels. Moved on to Rally mode, which is fun...

picked up steamworld heist on discount, have been really enjoying it

I got all the coins and characters in Mario Run. I can't beat the black pipe stage. I might try for the cake decoration.

Really Bad Chess is easy when you can just trade down to victory. When the non-pawns become equal it gets harder.

Puzzle House: Mystery Rising is a good knockoff of The Room series.

I bought the big question mark block in SMR, and then accidentally built something on top of it, and it disappeared. Will I ever be able to buy it again?

You still have it. Click Build, then Place (I think), and you get a list of all your stuff.

Thank you! Phew.

Stencilsmith is good.

buying now.

looks interesting

start linking to this stuff too plz: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stencilsmith/id1092627292?mt=8

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/hidden-my-game-by-mom-2-is-a-real-game-you-should-play-asap
i'm going to try this. sounds good.

very lightweight but pretty amusing

plants vs zombies heros is the first ccg i've gotten into. its nice and lightweight, with a fair amount of strategic depth.

pvz heroes makes me wish hearthstone supported portrait mode

I'm liking mini metro but I really should have started on iPad because my tapping is off and oh god I keep missing the one little station that's getting killed

Hidden My Game By Mom 2 is fun!

2short

Soda Dungeon is still on my phone because of a fascination with what else could possibly be in the game, and also because of how ludologically insipid it is. Stuff like the Tower of Fortune series - a transparent slot machine mechanic upon which a vaguely creepy, low-res monochromatic dungeon crawl has been lovingly welded - actually has way more shit going on than this fucking thing does. It's literally outfit some bozos (there are technically 10 types of bozos I think, less than half of which are any good) with some gear (quite frankly, gear becomes moot very early on, but it's "fun" to pretend)

It's kind of difficult to believe there is more content, having so much stuff repeatedly thrown at me already - and yet I'm still chipping away at it; 99.9% of the time I just outfit a bunch of suckers and let them crawl to their doom on auto, then sell the crap they died collecting for me, go get more dakka from the relic shop, and wonder how many different cognitive gaps in the human mind I'm illustrating by not deleting this goofy-ass ad clicker.

i've turned it over three times, not much new

do you mean all ten or however many dungeons? that's completely insane

i turned it over three times and got to i guess level 400 or so. There are some new bad guys every once in a while. You're well served to quit.