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The Official iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming Thread
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Got rid of my PSP and DS because of all the iphone luvin'. I get a little bit of both with my iphone. The simple puzzle and quirky DS style games plus lately Gameloft has proved with Modern Combat and Gangster, that PSP levels can be reached. My iphone is a God.
Been racking up on the "higher end" titles like Modern Combat and Monkey Island. I already spend sooooo much money on music with this phone. The games are gonna put me in the poor house. lol.
Been racking up on the "higher end" titles like Modern Combat and Monkey Island. I already spend sooooo much money on music with this phone. The games are gonna put me in the poor house. lol.
Eleven iphone games I won't delete - tuaw article
thoughts? there are a few games there that I haven't picked up and might take a look at
thoughts? there are a few games there that I haven't picked up and might take a look at
The Frotz developer posted on his Google Code page that Apple rejected his 1.3 update because the ability to download games from the IFDB violates the App Store TOS. It's completely baffling because it's been able to do this since 1.0, but they've just now decided it's a problem. He's resubmitted the update with the download ability removed and all compatible games in the IFDB with a three-star or greater rating are now bundled with the app.
RelentlessRolento
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blades looks so so... i'm acutally eagerly looking forward to the gameloft dungeon game since a dungeon crawler / diablo game that runs and plays well on the iphone that you cn whip out any time and put away to play for a min is sorely needed... the diablo clones out now just dont cut it.
mrklaw said:
Ive deleted lots of those :lol
its all a matter of taste. cro-mag, dizzy bee, pocket god. those never held my interest very long.
if I had to give a list of 11 games that Ive actually never deleted. lets see, in no particular order
1. EDGE
2. Peggle
3. InfinityGene
4. Real Racing
5. Drop7
6. Word Ace (Pro)
7. Lets Golf
8. Zen Bound
9. Strategery
10. Scrabble
11. Bejeweled
there are probably better games out I the app store but those are ones that I can get into quickly. never want to lose those.
I'd say most of those are not for everyone at best, and I'm not even sure they're all considered games.mrklaw said:
Flight Control is pretty great though. I remember Fieldrunners as one of the early good TD games...but I'm not into them so I never bothered. I think geoDefense is considered the best now? There's a sequel to that coming out soon.
mrklaw said:
The only game I've kept from that bunch is Flight Control, the original.
Other games that are probably so dear to me that I'd never get rid of them:
Edge, Eliss, Inifinity Gene, DDR S
The Creeps, Tetris, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Word Ace (pro)
Deep Green (Chess), Xiangqi (Chinese Chess), Solebon (Solitaire), Act Sudoku.
Games that are pretty hardcore, but I'll keep around as longa s I need to:
Civ Rev, Moneky Island (I still haven't played this), Real Racing, Geo Defense, Peggle, Snood, Dungeon Scroll, Twisty Text
Next tier down
Will be up for deletion when a good game rolls around
Archon, Flashback, Galcon, Duke3D (unless their update actually comes out and fixes everything).
Games I happent o be playing at the moment, but are temporary:
Alphabetic, Frenzic, Geared, Melongolf.
Mind you, the sheer fact that they're on there means something. Everything else has been deleted.
I would like to bring a game to everyone's attention called Blimp: The Flying Adventures. It's a fantastic 2D flying game in which you pilot a blimp around a level, picking up and dropping off people on platforms and collecting items in midair. The flying control is great (tilt to fly left and right, and one button for buoyancy), and the graphics and sound are simply top-shelf. It's criminal that it only costs $1.
This game got a little buzz on release, but 1.0 had a crippling bug in which the accelerometer flat-out didn't work most of the time on 2G Touches, so it got a pretty negative reaction and sort of faded into oblivion. The 1.1 update fixed the accelerometer problem, and now it's one of the best platformers in the App Store.
This game got a little buzz on release, but 1.0 had a crippling bug in which the accelerometer flat-out didn't work most of the time on 2G Touches, so it got a pretty negative reaction and sort of faded into oblivion. The 1.1 update fixed the accelerometer problem, and now it's one of the best platformers in the App Store.
mrklaw said:
Of those he listed I've played Fieldrunners, Sway, and Flight Control, and frankly none of those are in the "will not delete" category on my iPhone.
My list is:
geoDefense (best tower defense app by a large margin)
Peggle
Eliss (I play it rarely because of the difficulty but I really like it, which doesn't compute)
Infinity Gene (still plugging through this one bit by bit, but it's amazing)
Edge Lite (I never got around to buying the real game, which is now no longer available. The Lite version is still cool to plunk around with)
Games I won't delete until I eventually finish them:
Wolfenstein RPG
MechoWars (great little Advance Wars clone)
Zen Bound
Blocked (stupid little block puzzle app that I have completed about 75% of, I will get my $1 worth by 100% this by 2015)
Ive got so many games but i pretty much only play 2.
Orbital has me hooked , the first week i played it a lot , now i pick it up now and then.
Touchgrind however i cant stop playing it its AWESOME.
My high score on orbital is only 64 and icant seem to beat it
Anyone know what is with touchgrinds online ranking ?
I had a crazy like 4 mill + score and im in like 162,000 th place or something , is there a glitch people are abusing to get points or what?
Orbital has me hooked , the first week i played it a lot , now i pick it up now and then.
Touchgrind however i cant stop playing it its AWESOME.
My high score on orbital is only 64 and icant seem to beat it
Anyone know what is with touchgrinds online ranking ?
I had a crazy like 4 mill + score and im in like 162,000 th place or something , is there a glitch people are abusing to get points or what?
hygraed said:
Damned unfortunate
Not sure how downloading legal Interactive Fiction hurts Apple in any way. It's not like you can illegaly download commercial IF there, or that the App or download can jeopardize iDevice security. Another needlessly strict rule.StaticMoot
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therapist said:Ive got so many games but i pretty much only play 2.
Orbital has me hooked , the first week i played it a lot , now i pick it up now and then.
Touchgrind however i cant stop playing it its AWESOME.
My high score on orbital is only 64 and icant seem to beat it
Anyone know what is with touchgrinds online ranking ?
I had a crazy like 4 mill + score and im in like 162,000 th place or something , is there a glitch people are abusing to get points or what?
64? Damn, I can't even top 23 on gravity mode in orbital, lol. My highest score in pure? 5
60_gig_PS3
Banned
anyone here want to help beta test my game? It was submitted a while back but I pulled it to try to boost the quality.
Now I'm looking for testers with good game design skills or artistic to hopefully give feedback.
Oh and there's a built in level editor so maybe someone who wants to play with that and make some good levels
just PM me if you're interested.
Now I'm looking for testers with good game design skills or artistic to hopefully give feedback.
Oh and there's a built in level editor so maybe someone who wants to play with that and make some good levels
just PM me if you're interested.
geoDefense is probably considered the best overall, but it's still a fixed-path TDD. If you want "freeform" (you create mazes with your towers and can put them anywhere as long as the critters can pathfind from start to end) FieldRunners is still one of the best, until geoDefense Swarm is finally approved and nukes the field from orbit.japtor said:
whatevermort
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helava said:
Being blunt, Orbital is good for only one thing; passing time. It does it wonderfully. It is, being crude, the perfect lavatory game.
StaticMoot
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whatevermort said:
Also very good for winding down for sleep at night. Simple gameplay that doesn't require a ton of thought or control schemes.
infiniteloop
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There's a new chart on the App Store, towards the bottom, called Top Revenue Software.
Dreamwriter
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Woohoo! My first big iPhone game may be announced in the next hour! I've been involved with a number of smaller games, but this one, it be a full budget handheld game...
In Orbital I like to rapid fire a bunch of orbs into one corner in the beginning and then focus on taking them out. That way, when you're actually trying to destroy orbs you shoot them up into the area where there are many closely bunched together and the orb will often bounce off several of them, which eventually nets me a few points. My top score is only 24 so maybe that's not the best strategy, but it's fun!
Oh, and keep in mind that the set orbs have sort of a gravitational effect-type thingy on orbs shooting past them, so you can often curve around ones that might be blocking a direct path to the one you're aiming for.
Hope that helps!
Oh, and keep in mind that the set orbs have sort of a gravitational effect-type thingy on orbs shooting past them, so you can often curve around ones that might be blocking a direct path to the one you're aiming for.
Hope that helps!
Stumpokapow
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Dreamwriter said:
Congrats.
StaticMoot
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Zozobra said:
TBH, I just get distracted by making the shots curve in fun ways. It's very exciting when you manage a perfect orbit and the shot follows the circumference of the orbs.
Masklinn said:
My issue with FieldRunners was how incomplete the game felt. What was there felt great, but from a levels/feature standpoint the game felt very weak to me. It's probably been expanded on (or will be soon I think) but only three stages felt like the developers created a nice core game and then just said "good enough" and threw it up on the App Store.
I think Swarm, once approved, will shame it in the amount of levels offered at the very least.
Diablohead
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App related but it sounds like iTunes 9 will feature some nice additions like iDevice page management from inside iTunes, new top 100 for revenue earned, some other things etc.
http://toucharcade.com/2009/09/09/apples-its-only-rock-and-roll-event-coverage/
Probably already mentioned in the off topic iPhone thread but some of us hardly visit that dark corner of GAF, myself included
http://toucharcade.com/2009/09/09/apples-its-only-rock-and-roll-event-coverage/
Probably already mentioned in the off topic iPhone thread but some of us hardly visit that dark corner of GAF, myself included
FlashFlooder
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they just announced Madden would be available today. Looks pretty good.
Diablohead
Member
Oh gameloft...
game clones or not, they know what they are doing.
game clones or not, they know what they are doing.
Dreamwriter
Member
This one's the game I'm working on:
FlashFlooder
Member
Cool! Looks a lot more interesting than the 3d-wannabe version they released first. Does have a classic platformer look (which I love).
IMO, that's what devs need to be doing with the iPhone. Bringing back old-school gameplay!!
So... I'm at work. Anyone d/l Madden yet?
IMO, that's what devs need to be doing with the iPhone. Bringing back old-school gameplay!!
So... I'm at work. Anyone d/l Madden yet?
MaizeRage25
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Really like Modern Combat, so will defintely be interested in a new shooter from Gameloft.
Stoney Mason
Banned
Been a bit busy so I haven't been on my iphone for a bit so I'll start posting in this thread again later in the week. I'll be updating the recommendation thread later in the week also so it would be nice to get some recommendations for good games to add that have been released in the last 2 or 3 three weeks.
Oh I just noticed that there's now a "Top Grossing" column in the Top 25 section of the store. The result is that that column contains much more of the ~$4.99 area apps than the regular popularity column has. This should please EA/Ubisoft and the other big publishers.
Tellingly, Both Ubisoft and EA showed off higher profile, more full featured games at the Apple conference today.
Tellingly, Both Ubisoft and EA showed off higher profile, more full featured games at the Apple conference today.
Coloress_Kafka
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For those with iPod Touches who haven't upgraded to 3.0 yet the new 3.1 update is only $4.95 instead of $9.95
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/software-update.html
Free to iPod Touch users who already have 3.0
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/software-update.html
Free to iPod Touch users who already have 3.0
FlashFlooder
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I should really know this, but:
what's the proper way to update a jailbroken iPhone? I ran purplera1n on it after installing OS 3.0 and I have a bunch of Cydia apps installed. I've read somewhere that simply plugging the phone in and updating will result in "losing" whatever space the Cydia apps were taking up. Is this true?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
what's the proper way to update a jailbroken iPhone? I ran purplera1n on it after installing OS 3.0 and I have a bunch of Cydia apps installed. I've read somewhere that simply plugging the phone in and updating will result in "losing" whatever space the Cydia apps were taking up. Is this true?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Diablohead
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Just read that the new iPod Tuch 8g's are going to be $199, damn that is so nice especially that you get the newer VR cores and such, my touch 2g feels out of date all of a sudden.
What is the current NA price for an 8gig touch? around £169-£175 here and I wonder if we will see the new ones at £139 with the lower prices.
What is the current NA price for an 8gig touch? around £169-£175 here and I wonder if we will see the new ones at £139 with the lower prices.
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