iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

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.

Oh, er, it wasn't me, it was Dan.

Still, yeah, it exists already.

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. ;_;

<3 fieldrunners

<3 Trism

My friend showed me the ocarina app, which isn't a game, but I thought it was pretty cool.

So that mysterious "A NEW METAL GEAR IS...":

http://www.konami-digital-entertainment.co.jp/en/news/release/2008/1217/index.html

Er, "NEXT" rather.

My favourite iPhone/iTouch game is Virtual Pool, but I'm keen to see this Katamari conversion I saw on some website.

Rolando coming tomorrow

who's he?

is anybody not cool w/me changing the name of this thread to add /iPod Touch in between iPhone and Games

HOW DARE YOU SIR

Do it (do it now!).

anyone played the new one by the dude who did gran turismo, space deadbeef?

I wanted to until I found out it was a scrolling shooter.

THIS is Rolando

ipod Tooch!

that's nasty

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.

entire world seems to agree that iphone katamari is a sin against god and capitalism

i liked how one wired blog yesterday had a post that was all "THIS IS BROKEN GARBAGE" (the games one) and the gadget one was like "THIS IS SIMPLY WONDERFUL!"

12 hours and sobering up later, Rolando still fun

he sounds like a great guy!

rolando is ok but im finding it a bit frustrating control-wise.

FRENZIC on the other hand is pure awesome (and cheap as hell right now)

anyone bought fieldrunners?

fieldrunners is so-so... found it way too easy for a tower defense game, not enough towers and shit either...

Been having a blast with Dropship. It's a total insane shooter a la Geometry Wars - the controls take some getting used to but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. The best part of it is that the humans you rescue have names pulled from your contact database.

So far I've rescued Admiral Raggett, Wing Command Rosen, Sgt. Chaki.

thats funny

Anybody bought the full version of Touch Physics? I likes this game.

is there a hack/pirate network of iphone stuff floating around yet? I don't even have the machine, just curious.

iphone games pretty much suck except for frenzic. i think it's a shitty platform for games. for one, tilt games are terrible. for two, my fingers get in the way of the screen or aren't accurate enough (as opposed to the DS's stylus).

I think you can pirate pretty much any game with a certain application you load on a jailbroken phone; there's also lots of homebrew games, though I gather the market for them is lessening (except emulation) since the apps store opened.

Trism is pretty good but the free Solitaire app trumps pretty much everything (although I did impulse-buy Frenzic as a result of this thread so I may be modifying that stance soon)

So. Flight Control, anyone? I seem to have hit a wall round about the 64pts mark; annoyingly, Mrs Fiendish has whupped me with 74. But I hear of people getting 200+. How?

Bought that after being recommended it by MANY people, but find it really tedious. Drop7 is much much much better.

New update to Flight Control has autosaving, so I get past the first fifteen, save, then return later to actually play it.

Wonder too about some of these high scores: according to the new online ranking thing, I have the best score in the area and I still can't get past 90.

New update to Flight Control has autosaving

OH, DOES IT? How does that work, then? The only thing I spotted was the daft score-sharing shit, which I can't be arsed registering for (also: Mrs Fiendish's score, grumble, mutter, grah).

I second the Drop7 recommendation.

just press the home button, it'll save. xp

Is anyone else playing the stupid-yet-addictive iMafia game?

no!!

geo-defense is a pretty good one. like tower defense x geometry wars

all i play is The Office mini golf game. i need to find a real one because work cut out pretty much all internet except snopes.com

dan i started the mafia game but had noone to join my gang o thugs

peggle is up for $.99 right now

deal of the year imo

seriously, i bought it two weeks ago and have played it for like 283928392 hours so far

59p on the UK store too. Buying, thanks!

Christ. About an hour ago, I downloaded Peggle, just to see what all the fuss was about.

I'm only off it now because Mrs Fiendish has wrested it from my grip.

That's ace, that.

Lol I have knocked out about 150 easy puzzles. I still don’t quite get the hard ones

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

Wow have I ever become addicted to this. I don’t have a “medium” though (unless I missed an IAP) - just easy and hard.

Yes, I meant easy hard and expert. That’s on the iOS version of star battle go.

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

Townscaper

More of a beautiful toy than an actual game. Recommended.

― 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/

agreed - press should be hover and release to place it

i wanted this to have more complexity and gamishness to it.

let go

High Rise is great plane fodder. I wish more iOS games worked without wifi.

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

I am way too much of a sucker for F2P season pass mechanics.
Marvel Snap is pretty fun, gotta say

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.

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

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

maybe best to break for awhile?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlIWVv79_OQ

netflix has surprisingly been pretty good in this space

Trying to redownload the desktop but can't locate the link

Nevermind. This is the wrong thread. Right thread is over here of course: Zing: A (beta) ILX client for Macs

I remembered the key word "beta."