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Managed to almost beat wave 30 my first time through Chillaxian. It's great to hit that zone where all your lasers are landing. Though its impossible to keep the side shuttles alive, those things are huge.
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A few Rockstar games are on sale: GTA3: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grand-theft-auto-iii/id479662730 Vice City: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grand-theft-auto-vice-city/id578448682 Max Payne: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/max-payne-mobile/id512142109
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MissMarple posted:I think the most depressing thing about that Crabitron story is the boost they show on Crabstarter from going to PAX Aus. The extra income was about $100 or something? That probably didn't even cover their travel and accommodation. Hopefully the small boost in the charts will give them some earning momentum over the next week or so. Pretty much all media counts for nothing with mobile gaming. The only thing that matters is Apple featuring.
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Jul 24, 2013 22:58
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cactuscarpet posted:Well, I just bought it with €2,69 I didn't know I had left on my prepaid card. This'd better be good, goons! I wonder if there's a correlation between big hands and not digging the game. I also couldn't see it working as well on a Mini.
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Jul 24, 2013 23:14
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Shalinor posted:Dunno, maybe give it another go? For me, the controls clicked, and then I was reflecting lasers and piercing-shot'ing hippy vans like nobody's business. It's probably my favorite "games that could only be made on the iPad" game. As a big handed person who found it awkward to control this claim might have some credibility.
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Jul 24, 2013 23:52
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It is kind of demanding control-wise though, as in you'll need both hands and a stable surface to play on. Most of the games I play just take a few one handed  or thumb actions to play.
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Jul 24, 2013 23:56
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Are there any iOS physics sims out there that are any good? Specifically I am addicted to bridge building games because I like to
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Jul 25, 2013 00:51
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makeamightysound posted:A few Rockstar games are on sale: Do these control well?
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Jul 25, 2013 00:53
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Comrade Flynn posted:Pretty much all media counts for nothing with mobile gaming. The only thing that matters is Apple featuring. I think people reading a thread like this tend tend to overestimate the number of app shoppers who pay any attention at all to cell phone gaming news.
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Jul 25, 2013 00:55
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Lurker God posted:Do these control well? Can only talk for Vice City but absolutely not.
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Jul 25, 2013 00:58
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All the X person shooter (1st/3rd/whatever) or RPG I've played have (well, except Iesabel) left bottom area designated to makeshift joysticks and right bottom as action buttons. It's not too bad once you get used to it but it does feel rather strange for me as I'm more used to keyboard and mouse.
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Jul 25, 2013 01:22
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The Pacific Rim game is terrible, right?
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Jul 25, 2013 02:06
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omg chael crash posted:The Pacific Rim game is terrible, right? It's a pretty crummy game, but I don't feel ripped off for a dollar. I'm more upset that the game doesn't have the badass theme song from the film. (also, it's another one of those stupid games that blocks iPod Touches by a "compass requirement" even though the latest iPod Touch could run circles around the game, hardware-wise)
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Jul 25, 2013 02:20
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JazzFlight posted:For $1 after being $5, I figured I'd take the plunge since I was fresh outta the theater and wanted to have something about it. Ah, I'm bummer that I missed it at .99.
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Jul 25, 2013 02:37
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Lurker God posted:Do these control well? I can only speak to GTA3, which is unplayable.
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Jul 25, 2013 03:07
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omg chael crash posted:The Pacific Rim game is terrible, right? It's a licensed game released in time for the movie, on your touch screen phone; of course it's terrible. You know what's not terrible? Helsing's Fire. Everyone needs to know about Helsing's Fire. This is my periodic HEY GUYS GET HELSING'S FIRE AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS post. Bummey fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jul 25, 2013 |
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Jul 25, 2013 03:56
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Lurker God posted:Do these control well? I picked up Max Payne because why not. It controls about as well as you would expect a third parson shooter on ios to control. I would say if you are a Max Payne fan and have ever played and enjoyed a third person shooter on ios, go for it.
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Jul 25, 2013 05:28
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xzzy posted:It's a great game but it's okay. Every single review for that game is amazing. I try to guess for each one if it was written by a teenager or old person who doesn't get technology. I'm not too sure about Mr. one star "I hope it's good because I'm a gymnast: I hope".
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Jul 25, 2013 07:11
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I'm trying to play 400 Days on the iPhone and it doesn't seem to be available? I recently installed it again (after purchasing all the episodes and beating them) but everything simply says "coming soon". Any idea on how I can just download 400 days?
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Jul 25, 2013 08:54
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Parkingtigers posted:I bought it at $5 because I feel honourbound to reward whimsy, but yeah for such a niche game it did need to have a lower price of entry. A unique and lovely game, it's sad it didn't do better. Nothing else like it exists, and when we keep on getting games on all platforms that are so staid and formulaic and safe it's because no one wants to make a crab game that no one buys. I am still playing Punch Quest obsessively. The 150,000 goal to unlock Arena mode is genius. I don't even know what Arena mode is yet I tell you this: it will be unlocked by me. Only 159 games to go!
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SquadronROE posted:Are there any iOS physics sims out there that are any good? Specifically I am addicted to bridge building games because I like to Have you played Bridgey Jones?
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JazzFlight posted:For $1 after being $5, I figured I'd take the plunge since I was fresh outta the theater and wanted to have something about it. Why do they do this? What earthly reason could they have for wanting their game on iPhones but not iPods? Also, late to the party but count me in among the people who really wanted to love Crabitron but just couldn't. If I'm on my iPad I'm either leaning back in a chair or lying down in bed. I tried kind of balancing it on my knees for a bit but that didn't work out. It really does have to be flat on a table, and with how hosed my back is after a day of sitting in front of my computer the last thing I want to do is hunch over an iPad on my kitchen table. I really wanted to like it too, because I'm a huge advocate for games on touchscreen devices that can't exist in other places. Way too much of what we have is either lovely ports that try to cram conventional controls into a touch screen environment or lazy uses of touch screen that can easily be done by a mouse and/or directional keys elsewhere. It's loving rare to see a game that quite simply can not be done on any other platform and we need more of those. I found the bit about the dev finding that kids loved it intriguing, though. I'm guessing kids are already used to having to use iPads etc. flat on a table just due to the relative size issue. I find it annoying to hold my iPad up when I'm at my absolute laziest, I imagine it would be really onerous if you were an 8 or a 10 year old. That plus smaller hands probably takes out a lot of the frustrations that kept me from enjoying it.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Why do they do this? What earthly reason could they have for wanting their game on iPhones but not iPods? Apple doesn't give you a lot of granularity in disqualifying devices, so you'd have some dude with a first-gen ipod trying to run a game that would make it burst into flames, then one-starring you on the app store. So you get somewhat nonsensical requirements just to block out older devices because Apple won't let you do it any other way.
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Psion posted:Apple doesn't give you a lot of granularity in disqualifying devices, so you'd have some dude with a first-gen ipod trying to run a game that would make it burst into flames, then one-starring you on the app store. So you get somewhat nonsensical requirements just to block out older devices because Apple won't let you do it any other way. I get that, but that's easily done enough just through other hardware requirements. I have a 2nd gen iPod touch kicking around as a knock-about email reader and believe me, I know the pain of scouring the store looking for anything that still has iOS 3.1 as a maximum requirement. What I don't get is the compass requirement, since that completely eliminates specifically newer iPods. If it was just not wanting someone 1 starring you because their 4 year old device couldn't run it why not just require a forward facing camera or whatever other feature? It's the strange specificity of the compass requirement that confuses me.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I get that, but that's easily done enough just through other hardware requirements. I have a 2nd gen iPod touch kicking around as a knock-about email reader and believe me, I know the pain of scouring the store looking for anything that still has iOS 3.1 as a maximum requirement. I'd prefer they just put "DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS IF YOU HAVE AN IPOD 4TH GEN" in BOLD on the app and take the 1-stars from idiots (or if Apple just added the ability to block by device like you'd expect). EDIT: vvvvv Nah, that's not why they have the compass requirement. The iPod Touch 4 has 256mb RAM (like the iPad 1) and would probably crash the hell out of Pacific Rim, while the iPod Touch 5 has the chip from the iPhone 4S/iPad 2 and 512mb RAM (plenty enough to run any modern game). JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jul 25, 2013 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's the strange specificity of the compass requirement that confuses me. I think because requiring the compass restricts the app to devices that support arm7, which has a lot more processing power. There might be other performance related reasons if you peruse Apple compatibility matrix: http://developer.apple.com/library/...lityMatrix.html
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JazzFlight posted:I'd prefer they just put "DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS IF YOU HAVE AN IPOD 4TH GEN" in BOLD on the app and take the 1-stars from idiots (or if Apple just added the ability to block by device like you'd expect). I would assume people don't actually read app notes, and probably don't even know what "4th gen" means. I'd rather avoid a string of 1-stars my app doesn't deserve, especially if apps were my job and livelihood, you know?
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Jul 25, 2013 17:03
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People actually pay attention to app ratings on the store?
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Psion posted:I would assume people don't actually read app notes, and probably don't even know what "4th gen" means. I'd rather avoid a string of 1-stars my app doesn't deserve, especially if apps were my job and livelihood, you know? EDIT: vvvvv That's ridiculous for Apple to take that stance when they leave their own devices behind almost every time they update to a new major iOS version. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jul 25, 2013 |
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I bet Apple's reasoning for not allowing apps to lock certain devices out is that they don't want to encourage developers to target certain platforms but on the other hand they'll easily let apps through that are completely broken on one device or another. They've really got to get their poo poo together if they're planning on further fragmenting their lineup.
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Yodzilla posted:I bet Apple's reasoning for not allowing apps to lock certain devices out is that they don't want to encourage developers to target certain platforms but on the other hand they'll easily let apps through that are completely broken on one device or another. They've really got to get their poo poo together if they're planning on further fragmenting their lineup. Especially given their habit of completely dismissing entire generations of still functioning hardware every time a new version of iOS comes out. I understand that early devices were extremely low power compared to what we have now, but they won't even let developers target older releases because they remove the build targets from updated Xcode releases.
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Fortuitous Bumble posted:People actually pay attention to app ratings on the store?
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I tend not to read reviews unless a game seems divisive or I'm on the fence, but I often look at the star ratings on games that don't get talked about a whole lot. Rather than try and hunt down recommendations, I often end up just looking at app store categories, which often end up showing older games in their themed game sections, like "space games." It's nice to be able to see what's at 2 stars and what's at 4, so I don't have to waste time loading the page only to find that it looks atrocious is crashy or something. The older games I encounter often tend not to have reviews, or the reviews that are around are three or four years old and buried deep. On the device exclusion front, I remembered TWEWY having a big DOES NOT RUN ON IPOD TOUCH 4TH GEN banner in the description, and I remember seeing the touch 4 in the requirements section, but not getting it because it wouldn't run on one. Now I look, it specifies the touch 5. I don't know if I'm misremembering or whether that's changed, and since I've seen the issue with things working on the 4th gen before, whether they got an exception for being a high profile game or generating a lot of complaints or something.
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I admit to being totally shallow and picking apps based on their icon. 8 bit looking icons are a huge draw for me because some corner of my brain associates that aesthetic with "better gameplay". Anime or boobs tell me to avoid due to the threat of an IAP wall.
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Jul 25, 2013 17:28
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Has anyone downloaded the update to Sid Meier's Ace Patrol? The description says it adds 50% more content . . . having gotten bored with the game within about two weeks of buying it, I'm hoping the new content is some really good poo poo.
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We've released an update to Merchant to the Stars; this should fix the problems related to going through the Golem tutorial and clean up any leftover squire heroes.
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Icon and ratings are the two most important things in getting downloads.
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Lorini posted:Have you played Bridgey Jones? I'll check that out, thanks! Comrade Flynn posted:Icon and ratings are the two most important things in getting downloads. I know my likelihood to buy an app increases with the number (or possibly amount) of breasts in an icon.
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xzzy posted:I admit to being totally shallow and picking apps based on their icon. Hey xzzy, check out my chunky icon 
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