Stoney Mason
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Tobor said:
Yeah I miss a map. I bought it and played the first night but then I decided to just wait for updates.
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Yeah I miss a map. I bought it and played the first night but then I decided to just wait for updates.
Stoney Mason
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Tobor said:
I think a map is probably a bigger feature. Most of that stuff is more tweak like.
Stoney Mason
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Tobor said:
The engine is great. I just hope the game sells well enough so that they feel its worth it to put out the content.
Maybe they should license that engine they created out.
Stoney Mason
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Solideliquid
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Stoney Mason said:
wow I can't imagine the original Myst game on Mac took up that much space.
Stoney Mason
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Solideliquid said:
It was one of those games that ushered in the CD-ROM so while I don't remember specifically it must have filled out a PC CD back in the day.
Riven was mammoth too for its time.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Stoney Mason said:
Wow, I think I have to get this on principle alone. That big of a game ported over to the iphone besides me remember it being a cool game makes me want it. Especially at that price.
Solideliquid
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Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
Yeah I remember really enjoying the original, I think I was 13 when it came out. I want to get it, but I hesitate doing so since I remember what a chore it was to play with puzzle after puzzle. I'm older now so maybe it'll be easier to play now... maybe ... 5.99? hmmmm.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Solideliquid said:
Ya, I remember playing all of the myst games when I was younger so I don't know if it's just nostalgia but they were always fun and for only $6 it seems like a new brainer even if it's not as good as I remember. It looks like it plays well from the videos too, so it doesn't look like a bad port.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
does anyone else think that seeing sunsoft's name in the opening credits for myst is funny/weird? it just kind of took me out of it as i was watching the youtube vid, being an o.g. myster.
I just found out about this site:
http://appshopper.com/
It has full record of every games and the dates of their price increase, price drop, updates etc.
Good for people who want to monitor when a game might get a price drop.
http://appshopper.com/
It has full record of every games and the dates of their price increase, price drop, updates etc.
Good for people who want to monitor when a game might get a price drop.
Tony Rocky Horror
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That site is pretty rad!billy.sea said:
Found out that uniwar is 99cents today!
thetrin
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Banzaiaap said:
It's such a small thing, but I wish Uniwar had a battle screen that you could turn on and off (something akin to Fire Emblem or Advance Wars).
Captain N said:
Shit dude, if you're thinking D, why not add Enemy Zero to the mix?
adamsappel
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Looks very nice. The music cues really set it apart from similar games. I'd pay $1.99.Bliddo said:Thanks for the article, really interesting
I'm about to submit my game (http://starrideiphone.blogspot.com/ ) to Apple and I really can't decide the price.
I'm willing to price Star Ride 0.99$, but I'm scared of the .99$ repercussions
The 99c impulse buy can backfire with crappy ratings, and the game can get lost in the ocean of one-dollar shovelware.
The pricing is probably the hardest part of development
I bite at a lot more .99$ than higher-priced titles, though good reviews (particularly from Stoney here) will push me to check out others. But, a price drop or sale price really impels me, even as I know it's just psychological.
I'm sure a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch could run it with ScummVM no problem.Masklinn said:Sam & Max Hit The Road.
I want it now.
Too bad AAPL would never accept it
...I don't even know if they've ported ScummVM yet, but it's on basically every other platform these days I don't see why not.
PhlivoSong
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boutrosinit said:Thanks fella
Will check our store text to make sure that shit is clear.
Would love to hear your brutally honest thoughts on the game too
Well...
My first impression was that the premise for this game is one that would be very difficult for a designer to make harder levels without making it feel impossible, or without making the difficultly feel arbitrary (ie, putting more "stuff" in the way of progress). There are two scenarios I imagined...
1. Bigger boards of tiles
This would fall into the "making it feel impossible" at a certain point
2. Putting obstacles in the way
This is the method you chose (to the point I'm at, at least)
In some ways you succeeded with these obstacles, and in other ways I felt like you ran out of ideas but needed to make the game longer. I like the idea of the numbered tiles that you have to hit in a certain order. It acts as a challenge, but also as a helping device at the same time. I also like having the tiles that let you move in all 8 directions. The bombs/nukes are really close to arbitrary difficulty for me. The more of them you put in a level the harder it gets, but it doesn't make it anymore fun. When you have one or two in a level it's ok, but then when I get to a level where there are like 4 or more of them I start to think that you just got lazy. The crystal collecting to use "special" moves, also struck me as being unnecessary. What's that term they use in movies when a plot seems to be falling apart and then they take some random unexpected event to pull it all together? That's what the crystal collecting seems like to me. It's seems like a way of canceling out arbitrary difficulty.
But that brings it make to my original point. How do you make this game harder without making it feel impossible or cheap? The greatest satisfaction I got out of this game is when I could instantly visualize the solution and tap out all of the tiles in order before it had even acknowledged that I had tapped all of the tiles. I'm at a point where I feel like I'm no longer using logic, but just using trial and error.
P.S. I'm up to level 35 of the medium levels (I think)
CrunchinJelly
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Any GAFers picked up Myst?
Would love to hear some impressions from any of you lot before I splurge.
Would love to hear some impressions from any of you lot before I splurge.
mrkgoo said:
Negative. My earlier comments were directed at an article I read that claimed Drop7 was pretty much the best puzzle game since Tetris, but I haven't actually tried it on the iPhone. Generally speaking I like games on the platform where I can either take turns at my leisure or have a little downtime between rounds, like Geodefense.
And speaking of Geodefense, the update made the game much, much easier. I beat Gordy on the first try (after anywhere between 50 and 100 tries pre-patch, if I had to guess), and beat it without losing any lives. The levels after that have also been pretty easy so far. Not complaining but hopefully the challenge evens out.
LaneDS said:
Sweet, thanks. I have Tetris for the iPhone, and I love it. It's not all it could be but it's pretty damn good for what it is. My only major fault is that there doesn't seem to be an endless mode.
I just brought it up, because I thought you may have it as well. That's cool, though.
I left my iPod Touch at home today so I can't try this out, but Strategery looks really good to me. Maybe I just like the title? :lol
Looks like a competent Risklike actually.
Looks like a competent Risklike actually.
Stoney Mason
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boutrosinit
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PhlivoSong said:
Strange that you felt we padded it out. What gave you this impression? That's definitely one thing I felt we nailed, hence my specified curiosity.
PhlivoSong said:
Tuning it was the hardest part. I threw out about 400 level designs as after re-playtesting, a lot of them did feel like trial and error and I did not want that.
One of the other big challenges was obliquely communicating 'solve concepts' which is why the early levels take a while to warm up.
For example, crossing over the same tile multiple times, or learning how to solve bomb puzzles by focusing on having the tiles pre-flipped to finish on a bomb landing. Stuff like that.
This is the problem when you're trying to design depth / complexity on a small timescale. You NEED digestion time and that was real thin for us. We needed more testers too.
As for power-ups, we probably failed you in the pitch, as they're not traditional game power-ups. We left those in as helpers / CYA measures due to lack of a feature we wanted to do but couldn't justify in the nth hour. In the beginning, you'll only ever bother with warp or skip. Medium, you may use undo a few times. Hard, you'll be undoing a lot. At least that's what we found with limited data.
So yeah, short answer, we had / have some ideas to rectify all of this, but it would've cost us another month and no-one was getting paid, so we made it good enough where we could be proud of it and put it out.
We've seen all the positive buzz and some of the well-considered critiques we've been getting for the game and we're definitely going to work on a significant update some point in the future with these ideas in.
Stoney Mason
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I don't own it yet but Siberian Strike seems to be getting good reviews
http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/siberian-strike-review
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Siberian+Strike+(iPhone)/review.asp?c=13060
http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/siberian-strike-review
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Siberian+Strike+(iPhone)/review.asp?c=13060
Stoney Mason said:Siberian Strike from GameLoft also came out for the iphone.
Itunes Link $5.99
Video of the PC version
Impressions Thread
Yes, I got it Saturday night, and I've been very pleased with it so far. It manages to maintain relevancy amidst all the nostalgia, mainly because the programmers did a nice job incorporating the game with the platform. Touching linking panels is a hoot, as is pulling levers and pressing switches. The soundtrack is as classic as ever, and the island and all of its pre-rendered ages has never looked better. It's a recommended buy for me, but I'm terribly biased.cjelly said:Any GAFers picked up Myst?
Would love to hear some impressions from any of you lot before I splurge.
Stoney Mason said:
I picked it up a few days back and it seems pretty decent. It controls fairly well, the graphics are good and it plays at a good framerate, and the voice acting for cutscenes is certainly a plus. I think the one thing i dislike most about it is that the game plays out across about two screen widths, so to see all of the action you have to constantly move your plane to the left or right. You can easily lose track of enemy planes in there, if you're not careful. Still, I think it's worth a buy. The bottom line is it's a very fun arcade style shooter.
I'm not seeing the 99c GeoDefense online...
I've currently bought:
FieldRunners
Tiki Towers
Wolfenstein 3D
Flight Control
What's the best audio recording software you can get for the iPhone at the moment? Are there any which allow me to upload from the iPhone?
Also I know that if you have an iPhone you can only sync it to one system at one time. To move it to another system what do I have to do to keep everything on there?
I've currently bought:
FieldRunners
Tiki Towers
Wolfenstein 3D
Flight Control
What's the best audio recording software you can get for the iPhone at the moment? Are there any which allow me to upload from the iPhone?
Also I know that if you have an iPhone you can only sync it to one system at one time. To move it to another system what do I have to do to keep everything on there?
Stoney Mason
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Here is a rather clever workaround until OS 3.0 arrives. A rhythm action game that allows you to use your own music tracks by uploading it to a central server site first. Hopefully stuff like this won't be necessary when 3.0 launches and devs have access to the music library but until then I applaud somebody for taking the extra step and not being lazy. Who knows how the game will be but I always applaud developer initiative. Already submitted. Should be out in a week or two.
BeatRider
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http://www.mybeatrider.com/
http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/04/beatrider-to-offer-a-rhythm-game-with-your-music/
BeatRider
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http://www.mybeatrider.com/
http://toucharcade.com/2009/05/04/beatrider-to-offer-a-rhythm-game-with-your-music/
Eaten By A Grue
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You pretty much sold me on. How fast would you say does the battery drain while playing this? Even though the game is basically just images, me-thinks this game is a battery hog. I also feeling like buying this app to give my support to put more adventure gaming on the iPhone.woxel1 said:
The Myst series is one of my favorites, probably second to Zork adventure game-wise. I actually had to upgrade my computer back in the day because my CD-ROM was too slow for playing this. I think I had a 1x speed and it required a 2x. :lol
*Edit: Just purchased it, going to download it on my PC first then transfer it across USB. Oh man this is going to be nuts. Gentlemen, godspeed.
dream
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Top Gun's out (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313885030&mt=8). Looks kinda Ace Combat meets Star Foxish.
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