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The iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Gaming |OT2| Part II
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Just messed with it a bit on 4.2.1, worked fine.dallow_bg said:You have 4.2?
I've never been able to get it to run.
I miss playing it.
Only thing I haven't tried is deleting and reinstalling. I just didn't want to lose my data.
And apparently the last time I opened the map was when I was on vacation in Hawaii...took me a while to figure out why Boy was still stretched off screen even after zooming out a bunch.
Calavera520
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So Dungeon Raid is amazing. Anyone who hasn't already should definitely pick it up. Great to play for a few minutes or a few hours.
Any recommendations for games like Yipe 5?
- turn-based w/ no quasi-real-time component (e.g. remove Sword of Fargoal)
- light-hearted grinding and exploration
- death does not equal game over (e.g. remove 100 rogues)
I'm avoiding real-time D-pad games like the plague. Also having fun with Dungeon Raid and Puzzle Quest.
The Quest was too slow and methodical. Yipe 5 is quick and light -- perfect for winding down the day.
- turn-based w/ no quasi-real-time component (e.g. remove Sword of Fargoal)
- light-hearted grinding and exploration
- death does not equal game over (e.g. remove 100 rogues)
I'm avoiding real-time D-pad games like the plague. Also having fun with Dungeon Raid and Puzzle Quest.
The Quest was too slow and methodical. Yipe 5 is quick and light -- perfect for winding down the day.
Robert Ashley
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I love you guys! New music in 4-6 weeks.Jedeye Sniv said:
On topic, after weeks of solid play: Solar Minotaur Rescue is easily the best iPhone game ever. I don't know why it isn't more beloved. The graphics?
Nintendo Playstation
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Cooking Dash (from PlayFirst, makers of Diner Dash) is FREE for the moment, a cross-promotion the App Store is doing for Facebook. You don't need to do anything special to get this game for free.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cooking-dash/id325411773?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cooking-dash/id325411773?mt=8
Burger
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Jedeye Sniv said:
I know this is wildly off topic, but I've listened to the ALWW podcasts many many times. My favorite bits are Desert Bus for Hope, the EGM crew reminiscing (especially Sean Baby on giving Carnage Rally 1 out of 10 because of the cover - "suck our BALLS!") and the guy with the huge cock.
The production values are also awesome, reminds me of Radiolab.
Can't believe I missed worldofgoo when it was ubercheap.
Just bought infinity blade. Can't wait to see what the hype/visuals is about.
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http://itunes.apple.com/app/the-rise-of-atlantis-hd/id405028113?mt=8
RISE OF ATLANTIS HD IPAD FREE!!!
Just bought infinity blade. Can't wait to see what the hype/visuals is about.
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http://itunes.apple.com/app/the-rise-of-atlantis-hd/id405028113?mt=8
RISE OF ATLANTIS HD IPAD FREE!!!
graywolf323
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Ultimoo said:
yeah I really wish I could play Sword & Poker while listening to podcasts on my iPod
tetrisgrammaton
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Robert Ashley said:
Wholeheartedly agreed. I was just thinking why there isn't a huge thread for Minotaur Rescue on GAF, and then I realized it's because iPhone games are confined to the ghetto (this thread).
japtor said:
This is the best controlling game there is on iPhone. Light-years better than any dual-sticks crammed onto a touchscreen.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Aww yeah, new music! Let the hype beginRobert Ashley said:
And yeah, minotaur Rescue is insanely good, it's as perfect a score attack game as I've played on the system. Definitely the graphics are a major issue though, when games like NOVA are popular despite playing like smelly ass it's hard for quality games like this to get a look in. I think that much like awesome indie music, retro stylings are a lot more niche than us hardcore fans give it credit.
Superhyped for Minter's next game too, if he keeps knocking them out every few months I'll be one happy retrogamer.
tetrisgrammaton
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Jedeye Sniv said:Aww yeah, new music! Let the hype begin
And yeah, minotaur Rescue is insanely good, it's as perfect a score attack game as I've played on the system. Definitely the graphics are a major issue though, when games like NOVA are popular despite playing like smelly ass it's hard for quality games like this to get a look in. I think that much like awesome indie music, retro stylings are a lot more niche than us hardcore fans give it credit.
Superhyped for Minter's next game too, if he keeps knocking them out every few months I'll be one happy retrogamer.
I mean people love Geometry Wars albeit it is prettier. But Minotaur Rescue has bleats of goats from Oregon Trail for sound effects. Definitely wins in the audio department. And MR just speaks to me in a way GW didn't. Although I loved me some Geo Wars.
While on the subject of barn animals, has anyone seen Llamasoft's site where they've posted tons of pictures of the sheep that they live with? It's totally cool.
Jedeye Sniv
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Yeah, but Geo Wars is super modern as well. The neon, the undulating background, the sounds... It's a slick current gen production. A few bells and whistles aside Mino Rescue is unashamedly old skool. It's totally minimalist and pretty hardcore in the way it plays too. I love the way it plays but I can see a 16 year old with a stunted attention span playing it for a round and being very put off by the learning curve. Hell, even going by my gamecenter FL that seems to be the case with gaffers too.tetrisgrammaton said:
I think another issue is the sheer churn of the app market , if a game doesn't have some major mass market appeal it's very easy for it to get lost in the shuffle and forgotten about. A game has two or three days to shine and then it's on to the next one.
I finally understand the hate for virtual joysticks... (and I know what fixes it for me) I used to play on my 3GS, which I always have in an Otterbox Defender case (full protection, incl hard plastic over the screen, you can throw your iPhone with this thing). When I switched to the iPhone 4 and didn't have my new Defender case for it yet, I played games on it without a case and also tried playing with a 'normal' case I borrowed from a friend... It was horrible. I realized that the bulkiness and grip that my Defender case added does so much for how I can hold the device and move my thumbs accurately, it is just nuts. I now have my Defender case for the iPhone 4 and it's even better than the 3GS's, it honestly feels very close to holding a console controller.
Gaming impressions: switching from a 3GS to an iPhone 4:
- Most games run smoother and look a TON better (srsly, did NOT expect Retina games to look THIS good).
- I love Infinity Blade even more now.
- Finally able to play Castle of Magic and it's pretty great (fantastic platformer, doesn't support Retina but had a horrible framerate on 3GS and below, couldn't stand it).
- The high resolution IS hard to handle for some engines: Aqua Moto Racing 2 has its shader fx disabled on the water, resulting in simpler water fx than on the 3GS. Mirror's Edge seems to have window reflections disabled. Also, Infinity Blade has anti-aliasing disabled but it's awesome how the resolution is so high that this is is unnoticeable, no-AA might even look better on Retina with such pixel density so maybe they disabled it for aesthetics rather than performance.
- Gyro is amazing. It's just 'okay' how it's implemented in Nova 2 imo though. But playing Rage with controls set to 'virtual window' while standing and moving around like a crazy person is incredibly immersive.
- Non-Retina games with blurry upscaling still look great imo, I'd prefer nearest-neighbour-pixel-doubling but it really doesn't matter much to me.
Also... I just discovered that Beatmaker 2 is out. Holy shit!! Anyone who likes to play around with making music on the iPhone in a semi-serious way, check this out, it beats EVERYTHING. I've played around with most of the best music production apps but this is something else... It's beautiful, slick, brilliant UI design and so damn powerful and full-featured as a 'mobile production studio'.
Gaming impressions: switching from a 3GS to an iPhone 4:
- Most games run smoother and look a TON better (srsly, did NOT expect Retina games to look THIS good).
- I love Infinity Blade even more now.
- Finally able to play Castle of Magic and it's pretty great (fantastic platformer, doesn't support Retina but had a horrible framerate on 3GS and below, couldn't stand it).
- The high resolution IS hard to handle for some engines: Aqua Moto Racing 2 has its shader fx disabled on the water, resulting in simpler water fx than on the 3GS. Mirror's Edge seems to have window reflections disabled. Also, Infinity Blade has anti-aliasing disabled but it's awesome how the resolution is so high that this is is unnoticeable, no-AA might even look better on Retina with such pixel density so maybe they disabled it for aesthetics rather than performance.
- Gyro is amazing. It's just 'okay' how it's implemented in Nova 2 imo though. But playing Rage with controls set to 'virtual window' while standing and moving around like a crazy person is incredibly immersive.
- Non-Retina games with blurry upscaling still look great imo, I'd prefer nearest-neighbour-pixel-doubling but it really doesn't matter much to me.
Also... I just discovered that Beatmaker 2 is out. Holy shit!! Anyone who likes to play around with making music on the iPhone in a semi-serious way, check this out, it beats EVERYTHING. I've played around with most of the best music production apps but this is something else... It's beautiful, slick, brilliant UI design and so damn powerful and full-featured as a 'mobile production studio'.
Jedeye Sniv
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Reese-015 said:
Yeah, I saw that the other day but the price is insanely high. I found Beatmaker 1 to be a little finickety, I don't know if I can justify spending 11 quid on something that I may or may not enjoy working with. If it was £5 I would buy it though... funny how the perceived value of software is so much lower on iOS.
Jedeye Sniv said:
I know, I sequenced most of my experiments in Beatmaker 1 and it was often reeeally finecky indeed. But dude... Trust me. Beatmaker 2's UI is a fantastic example of making a complex application with tons of controls very accessible and a total pleasure to fiddle with. They owned it this time, I love it. Only thing that sliiightly disappointed me is that even with tons more samples, filters and also synthesizers this time around, I was almost convinced that I was even going to ditch Thumbjam, Dopplerpad, Filtatron and Amplitube to just do everything in Beatmaker. But after playing around with it for a few hours I realized that, while Beatmaker 2's built in stuff is pretty damn good, it doesn't beat that combo of apps I was using before yet. But major props to them for coming close.
jessecuster
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graywolf323 said:
I have never had a problem with this. If an app pauses your music/podcasts, I usually just hit the button on the mic, and start it back up.
I turn the music and sound effects off in every single game I play.
catapult37
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Reese-015 said:
Agh Beatmaker 2, really? I dropped $10 on the first one and still haven't gotten around to using it much, but now a whole new app? No updates? Thanks guys....
graywolf323
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jessecuster said:
wait what? I've tried fast switching back to music and starting it back up then fast switching back to Sword & Poker but it just pauses whatever I was playing again
Have a little problem with an App on my new Ipad.
Downloaded a game called "Full Deck Solitaire". It works for some time, but after a while (normally one day) the app stops working. I need to delete it and redownload it to make it work.. when I press the app, it loads the start screen but then it just stops.
is this normal..?
Downloaded a game called "Full Deck Solitaire". It works for some time, but after a while (normally one day) the app stops working. I need to delete it and redownload it to make it work.. when I press the app, it loads the start screen but then it just stops.
is this normal..?
jessecuster
Member
graywolf323 said:
Just hit the little button on the mic on your headphones and it should start your music/podcast right up.
graywolf323
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jessecuster said:
my headphones didn't come with a mic
randomlyrossy
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Robert Ashley said:
That soon? Awesome!
I adore the first album, can't wait to hear what you guys come up with next.
Uh, on topic....Dungeon Raid is still awesome, it's my go to game when listening to an audiobook or something like that.
Jedeye Sniv
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I think apples (the fruit) interfere with the touchscreen, I just ate one and got a little bit of juice on my finger and in my post-lunch Battleheart session the screen wouldn't recognise all kinds of orders. Damn, so frustrating!
Delicious irony that Apple are bought low by their namesake. Delicious apple too
Delicious irony that Apple are bought low by their namesake. Delicious apple too
jessecuster
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graywolf323 said:
Then you have a problem.
All iPhones come with headphones with a mic.
OneEightZero
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More levels coming for League of Evil. ^_^
PalaceBrother
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jessecuster said:
My first 3G didn't. It came with the newer style headphones (squishy rubber cord) but no mic.
The next few 3Gs we bought all came with a mic, and the 4 has the mic & volume controls.
hyp
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looks like some notable iOS games just got released on the NZ app store:
the blocks cometh
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/the-blocks-cometh-by-halfbot/id415877950?mt=8
back to the future HD ep.1 (iPad)
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/back-to-the-future-ep-1-hd/id419176153?mt=8
should be on the US store soon i'm assuming.
the blocks cometh
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/the-blocks-cometh-by-halfbot/id415877950?mt=8
back to the future HD ep.1 (iPad)
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/back-to-the-future-ep-1-hd/id419176153?mt=8
should be on the US store soon i'm assuming.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
The Blocks Cometh looks pretty fun, like a sideways League of Evil. Can't wait to grab it tomorrow. How many pennies will it cost me?
I'm interested in getting the iPad BTTF, since I want to be able to hand the game to people who might not be gamers but like BTTF, and the iPad might make it easier than keyboard/joystick movement controls, but I'll await reviews.
It also looks pricy at $10 (unless NZ prices are usually different).
It also looks pricy at $10 (unless NZ prices are usually different).
hyp said:
From what I can tell (don't have an iPad), it's not universal yet. It makes excellent use of the Retina resolution, though, and the iPad is pretty important for this kind of app so I'm expecting them to go universal at some point.
*Everything* has improved heaps and sequencing is one of the things that has gotten the biggest overhaul of all. It's really intuitive now to just record pad-tapping to the sequencer and then adjust it afterward, they have a slick and very user-friendly UI for duplicating, instancing and moving around segments and they dropped the whole strange way in which you had to define and lock down how many bars your segment for a specific track is gonna be. I'm seriously not exaggerating when I say that I wish that all other PC music production software I've ever played with would be this user-friendly, the workflow is so easy and straight-forward without being dumbed down or limited.
hyp said:looks like some notable iOS games just got released on the NZ app store:
back to the future HD ep.1 (iPad)
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/back-to-the-future-ep-1-hd/id419176153?mt=8
should be on the US store soon i'm assuming.
Can't wait to see some reviews on this one, I hope the port is solid. iPad has been great for adventure games.
tetrisgrammaton
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Jedeye Sniv said:
Maybe they should have priced it higher. Then people might feel motivated to give it a chance. Also, it wouldn't hurt if some actual game sites covered it, but "lol iPhone games."
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