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iOS Gaming March 2016 | Your backlog grows in tiny bits
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More_Badass
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If you don't mind single device multiplayer, Astro Duel is supposed to be really fun
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/astro-duel/id548898306
Saucycarpdog
Member
Interesting choice of art style change. I always thought the point of the ball being white (and blending into the background) was to add another layer of challenge.Impossible Road (iOS) vs Super Impossible Road (PC/PS4, releasing soon)
I think that might be the most enhanced mobile-to-PC port I've seen
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Yeah I don't really get that change. The PC version looks nicer, but the iOS version looks like the more compelling game.
More_Badass
Member
The Super version has the original endless arcade gameplay as a "classic Survival mode", and is focused more on straight-up racing. There's a Career mode and split-screen/online multiplayer
orthodoxy1095
Banned
That's pretty rad actually.
It'd be cool if you could toggle the visuals actually.
Not exactly what I was looking for but thanks for the suggestion!
Hi guys,
We just released our first game, Rolly Hills on the IOS.
We are a team of two brothers, I did the art and my brother did the programming.
It's inspired by games like marble madness and super monkeyball. It should be 60fps on the newer devices.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rolly-hills/id1080096216?ls=1&mt=8
here is a video of it in action. Sorry was a bit hard to take a video...
Would really appreciate your feedback so we can keep improving the game.
We hope that you like the game, please give it a try.
We just released our first game, Rolly Hills on the IOS.
We are a team of two brothers, I did the art and my brother did the programming.
It's inspired by games like marble madness and super monkeyball. It should be 60fps on the newer devices.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rolly-hills/id1080096216?ls=1&mt=8
here is a video of it in action. Sorry was a bit hard to take a video...
Would really appreciate your feedback so we can keep improving the game.
We hope that you like the game, please give it a try.
Hi guys,
We just released our first game, Rolly Hills on the IOS.
We are a team of two brothers, I'm did the art and my brother did the programming.
It's inspired by games like marble madness and super monkeyball. It should be 60fps on the newer devices.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rolly-hills/id1080096216?ls=1&mt=8
here is a video of it in action. Sorry was a bit hard to take a video...
Would really appreciate your feedback so we can keep improving the game.
We hope that you like the game, please give it a try.
Won me Marble Madness and Super Monkey Ball inspiration. Downloading to give it a shot. Good luck with the launch!
I haven't had any issues, but I also haven't really played in two days so something may have changed?
Saucycarpdog
Member
How the matchmaking works is you get match made with someone of a similar level and in the same arena as you. Of course, you can get match made with someone who just spent $100 on gems and bought a bunch chests to level up their cards. In that case, yeah, you are getting match with someone who's on another level to you. How it's supposed to work though is people like that are expected to win a lot of games and level up there by being taken out of your match pool. It's not a perfect system by any means, but I guess it does incentivize people to spend money so they can win some games for a while. :/
I played Able Black. The writing and story was excellent, and I loved the fables and the inquiries on them in-between chapters. Unfortunately I thought the puzzle design was really poor. There's some clever solutions there but the implementations with the key visuals or the rhyme riddles were really unintuitive. I eventually just looked up a guide after getting stuck multiple times so I could progress the story, which is really rare for me when it comes to puzzle games. Didn't regret it.
But it's definitely worth a play if you're looking for a good interactive story, especially if you're into stuff that focuses on artificial intelligence ala The Talos Principle, SOMA, etc. Make sure you access "17" after you finish it before putting the game down.
But it's definitely worth a play if you're looking for a good interactive story, especially if you're into stuff that focuses on artificial intelligence ala The Talos Principle, SOMA, etc. Make sure you access "17" after you finish it before putting the game down.
Saucycarpdog
Member
I'm so ready for this, beta was a blast.
after waiting for so long, it's crazy to think it'll be out so soon.
More_Badass
Member
Verreciel finally has a release date: May 1st
This is the space exploration game from the developer of Hiversaires, Oquonie, and Donsol
This is the space exploration game from the developer of Hiversaires, Oquonie, and Donsol
Know this is the iOS thread, but anyone who has an Android as well, the latest Humble Bundle is incredible (especially if you don't have any of the apps). I'm just going to quote what you would get if you paid the $6 top tier:
Prune
Framed
Battlestation: Harbinger
Desktop Dungeons
Grim Fandango: Remastered
Frozen Synapse Prime
Lara Croft: GO
Sorcery 3
Lost Echo
Unmechanical
Puddle+
Plus a bunch of soundtracks for many of the apps above. Honestly think that has to be the best mobile HB ever. I wish iOS could get into the game.
The first three you can get for just a $1.
Prune
Framed
Battlestation: Harbinger
Desktop Dungeons
Grim Fandango: Remastered
Frozen Synapse Prime
Lara Croft: GO
Sorcery 3
Lost Echo
Unmechanical
Puddle+
Plus a bunch of soundtracks for many of the apps above. Honestly think that has to be the best mobile HB ever. I wish iOS could get into the game.
The first three you can get for just a $1.
More_Badass
Member
^^^
That's one hell of a bundle. Too bad devs can't do bundles for iOS games
That's one hell of a bundle. Too bad devs can't do bundles for iOS games
Of course, they can do bundles of their own games (one dev/publisher). But it would be cool if Apple would allow places like Humble Bundle to maybe use redemption codes to do bundles. Or if Apple itself would do bundles on their own for charity.
Yeah, it sucks. But it's not a surprise with these types of games I suppose.
Might just have the opposite effect on me though. I'll see how it goes.
More_Badass
Member
It's funny how acclimated I've become to Dream Quest's graphics. Now they don't even bother me, it's just part of the game's charm like the first Cally's Caves.
A shame we might not get a refined sequel though.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
So I've been playing more of Dever's Lone Wolf, and I still really like it.
But holy hell, tone it down with the combat.
But holy hell, tone it down with the combat.
More_Badass
Member
Yeah, that was the main complaint I had heard. The combat interrupts the interactive fiction parts too often
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Yeah, I think you mentioned that when I brought up the game last week.
The combat is actually pretty well designed, and far better than what I'd expect out of an interactive fiction title. There's just way too much of it. It feels like I can hardly go a page or two without running into more things to fight.
That's what I use, and it works very well. The A8X is a very powerful chip and its aged nicely. The 2 GB of RAM is fantastic, with games, apps, and Safari tabs refreshing much less frequently than legacy devices. The only detractor, and this me being picky, is how the speakers make the screen vibrate when they're above 10% or so volume. Not a fan of that, but I try not to notice it too much.
I'd imagine the Pro would suffer from the same vibration issue, probably even more as it has four speakers inside the same body. Still, you get used to it pretty quick, and it feels like a light rumble from a video game controller, so it's actually sometimes, IMO.
I am tempted by the Air 2, since you can now get the 64GB version for far less than a 32GB Pro.
Edit: I have the Mini 2, that's still 1GB of Ram right?
I still can't get into this game. Maybe I'll give it another go tonight.
This looks interesting.Verreciel finally has a release date: May 1st
This is the space exploration game from the developer of Hiversaires, Oquonie, and Donsol
Hi guys,
We just released our first game, Rolly Hills on the IOS.
We are a team of two brothers, I did the art and my brother did the programming.
It's inspired by games like marble madness and super monkeyball. It should be 60fps on the newer devices.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rolly-hills/id1080096216?ls=1&mt=8
here is a video of it in action. Sorry was a bit hard to take a video...
Would really appreciate your feedback so we can keep improving the game.
We hope that you like the game, please give it a try.
I think this is pretty cool. I'm horrible at it (the best I could get is 114 so far!) but it's cool and it looks nice. If I was going to ask for something specific to be implemented, it would probably be a landscape mode so I could see a little bit further down the hill, when some of those steep slopes show up.
Thanks bjork for the review. So glad that you think it's cool. We actually made the game with NeoGaf in mind. We thought the game would be easy for NeoGaf lol...But maybe we'll need to tone down the difficulties a bit at the beginning sections.
The landscape mode is a great idea. We are working on the update, with more chars, theme and new obstacles, so maybe we might include it then.
Thanks again, we really appreciate it!
More_Badass
Member
The fantastic Forget-Me-Not went permanently free. Definitely pick this up if you've never played it
It works great. The 2 GB of ram is huge in giving it a longer life. That's the main reason I passed on the Air 1 the year prior.
gingerbeardman
Member
Yes, it's probably more "date TBC" rather than "game TBC"
I wonder why? Does he have a new game coming?
More_Badass
Member
TA wrote about it
http://toucharcade.com/2016/03/29/forget-me-not-goes-free/
And it does sound like he's working on a new game
gingerbeardman
Member
I just found his blog post about it http://nyarlu.net/blog/fmn-ios-is-freeware-now/
(didn't want to renew the developer programme subscription but somebody else paid for it for him (yay) and he's honoring $free)
his WIP new game is here: http://nyarlu.net/blog/wobbegong-land/
and here: http://nyarlu.net/blog/category/devlog/
"wobbegong land"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq8J1oBqAXs
gives me New Zeland Story in a car on acid kind of vibes
can't wait for that!
(didn't want to renew the developer programme subscription but somebody else paid for it for him (yay) and he's honoring $free)
his WIP new game is here: http://nyarlu.net/blog/wobbegong-land/
and here: http://nyarlu.net/blog/category/devlog/
"wobbegong land"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq8J1oBqAXs
gives me New Zeland Story in a car on acid kind of vibes
can't wait for that!
My understanding was that he wasn't going to pay the fee "right away" but would when his next game was ready.
gingerbeardman
Member
Yes perhaps. Well done to the anonymous benefactor that makes all this moot.
hey, Forget-Me-Not guy here.. i just couldn't really afford to pay the app store license at the moment so was going to let it lapse for awhile until i could easily renew it, but my friend offered to help pay because they thought it'd be a shame for it to disappear.
i'd been meaning to make FMN permanently free anyway as it's 5 years old now, had a good run, and i'll probably never get around to updating it again. (kinda amazed it still works on current devices!)
i am working on a couple other games but am real busy with life and stuff, so i go very slowly.. got nothing anywhere near releasing.. anyway, thanks!! enjoy
hey, Forget-Me-Not guy here.. i just couldn't really afford to pay the app store license at the moment so was going to let it lapse for awhile until i could easily renew it, but my friend offered to help pay because they thought it'd be a shame for it to disappear.
i'd been meaning to make FMN permanently free anyway as it's 5 years old now, had a good run, and i'll probably never get around to updating it again. (kinda amazed it still works on current devices!)
i am working on a couple other games but am real busy with life and stuff, so i go very slowly.. got nothing anywhere near releasing.. anyway, thanks!! enjoy
Awesome to have you here! FMN is such a classic. Hope we are privileged enough to play more of your work on iOS someday!
My guess is good, solid, simple coding. Great game and glad to see you here!
More_Badass
Member
Hey, nice to see you're on GAF. Thanks for making such a great game, and can't wait to see what you work on next. Wobbegong Land looks like a lot of funhey, Forget-Me-Not guy here.. i just couldn't really afford to pay the app store license at the moment so was going to let it lapse for awhile until i could easily renew it, but my friend offered to help pay because they thought it'd be a shame for it to disappear.
i'd been meaning to make FMN permanently free anyway as it's 5 years old now, had a good run, and i'll probably never get around to updating it again. (kinda amazed it still works on current devices!)
i am working on a couple other games but am real busy with life and stuff, so i go very slowly.. got nothing anywhere near releasing.. anyway, thanks!! enjoy
Somebody already redeemed it though.
Are we still playing Contest of Champions on GAF? Because currently we have 0 points, and we need 100 to get rewarded with a 5-star hero crystal. I just joined and would love to help out but only if it is a team effort.
I also found all of my unread mail in the mail and discovered I had like 5 unclaimed heroes, so got a 3-star War Machine, 2-star Daredevil, 2-star Deadpool, 2-star Cyclops and a 2-star Hulk not to forget a 2-star Black Widow!
More_Badass
Member
If anything major comes out this week, looks like this thread might hit 20 pages. That hasn't happened since September, and before that since the Jan 2015 thread