feedtheid posted:

Are there any NYT crossword analogues that are decent and still free? I don't want to pay for the app, but it's very nice and has a ton of features.

Dessert Rose posted:

I don't think I "get" how abode upgrades work, though. In theory, I've unlocked Next Age Abodes, a stone building of size 3. However, every building I build of size 3 comes out Grass Lodge and definitely has like half of the capacity of the new

bad day posted:

I'm curious - what are the "dozens" of cyoa iOS games? The two aksys games, 80 days, sorcery!, and ????

I am really interested in developing a cyoa game and those are the only decent-looking ones I've seen. The iOS store really needs human curators, "popular" does not equal good, and it seems like a lot of games don't show up well in search.

theblackw0lf posted:

Check out the "choice of games" seres. (Choice of the dragon, heroes rise, choice of broadsides, life of a wizard, and many more)

TACD posted:

Would Blood & Laurels count as a CYOA? I haven't actually played it yet (it's on my list) but I think it falls in that category.

bad day posted:

I'm curious - what are the "dozens" of cyoa iOS games? The two aksys games, 80 days, sorcery!, and ????

I am really interested in developing a cyoa game and those are the only decent-looking ones I've seen. The iOS store really needs human curators, "popular" does not equal good, and it seems like a lot of games don't show up well in search.

Just made it back around the world in 79 days.

Shwqa posted:

Yeah I had a really had time not suggesting games that over a year old.

Tiny thief is pretty awesome. I played it with a 5 year old child. The game is adorable and so was the kid's reactions

Elerion posted:

It might be over a year old, but is still actively supported and was updated as recently as this summer with new good features: New Star Soccer is the best game ever released on a mobile platform. There's a small paywall to unlock the full game ($2-5'ish? It's been too long) as well as some optional good value IAPs if you want to speed up progress (~$5 per 150 games for boots, trainer, agent, all well worth it but not needed at all).

delfin posted:

I'm trying this out, and it's good so far, but the increases in NRG costs when you raise your star rating are some bullshit. Seems like out of the set of (Keep energy out of Substitute range | Train skills at all | Spend actual money), pick two, and that's leaving aside saving for things like boots and trainers, let alone lifestyle stuff. What should I be focusing on early?

The rear end Stooge posted:

On the topic of CYOA, when I was playing the Kim Kardashian game it showed me an ad for a visual novel game called "Our Two Bedroom Story" and it looks loving amazing. If it didn't cost $27 to buy all the chapters I would totally be playing it right now.



The same developers have a whole lineup of visual novel games called things like "My Forged Wedding," "Kiss of Revenge," "Pirates in Love," and "Kissed by the Baddest Bidder."

Original_Z posted:

Good god. Someone here must play this and report back.

theblackw0lf posted:

The Visual Novel/Adventure Game Corpse Party comes out tonight. As far as visual novels go I heard this one was quite well received. I think this one has more interactive gaming elements though, like the Zero Escape series.

I'd love to see more Visual Novels on the iPhone. It's really the perfect platform for it. There's a bunch that already have Japanese iPhone versions (like Steins;Gate), as well as having the English translation for some other version. So I don't see why it should be too difficult to convert the Japanese iPhone version to English if the translation is already done.

Light Gun Man posted:

Stick Figure Mafia posted:

Holy crap am I reading this right? The 3DS Phoenix Wright game is out on iPhone?

Shwqa posted:

I really like the direction iOS gaming is taking

The iOS games megathread: butter up my pooper with it real good

Stick Figure Mafia posted:

Holy crap am I reading this right? The 3DS Phoenix Wright game is out on iPhone?

quote:

It's very easy, really. Get a file manager software for idevices such as iexplorer, iphone explorer or ifunbox (i use the latter).

Then, get the english translation patch from here (second link is better, disregard the instructions about having a jailbroken idevice):
http://tsuuun.blogspot.gr
http://i-vntp.blogspot.de/p/since-2009-steins-gate-series-has-sold.html

Finally, take the files from the rar file and drop them within the app, using the file manager

Put them inside the "/var/mobile/media/Applications/XXXXXXXXX/SteinsGate_HD" folder.

IncendiaC posted:

It just showed up on the App store and I'm downloading it now, so yes!

e: It's great that they ported it over to iOS so quickly after the 3DS release. I'm hoping other 3DS titles eventually get ported as well. Probably not Pokemon since Nintendo would never allow it, but having something like Fire Emblem Awakening would be sweet.

Quickpull posted:

Choice of games also puts a lot of great design articles on their blog like this one. If you're interested in developing cyoa games it's a good resource.

bad day posted:

I'm more interested in a sort of interactive novel where there are events taking place on a schedule and your choices of where to go, who to talk to, and what to do, determine which of (say) 8 major story branches, each having 4 or so possible endings. The different branches depict the same events from different perspectives and levels of participation. I was thinking that from a programming perspective it would probably be easiest to ape Ryan North's ebook To Be Or Not To Be (which is AMAZING, a much better CYOA than any of the apps we are talking about) and have lots of branches, but no stats.

Zigmidge posted:

In the end though, it doesn't matter one bit because NSS is mathematically designed to fail your career if you don't spend any money on it (stat degradation takes over fast). I guess you could stunt your experience like that other poster earlier that only plays 6 or 7 seasons before retiring.

demota posted:

I've got an Android phone, and I'm considering grabbing an iPod Touch to round out my games access. Will a 16gb do, or should I shell out for a 32 or even 64? Is there much I'd be missing for not going for an iPad?

demota posted:

I've got an Android phone, and I'm considering grabbing an iPod Touch to round out my games access. Will a 16gb do, or should I shell out for a 32 or even 64? Is there much I'd be missing for not going for an iPad?

UncleSmoothie posted:

If you're willing to stretch your budget a little farther, you'll get much more out of an iPad Mini than an iPod Touch. There's a number of good iPad-only games and a considerable number of games that play better on an iPad than they do on a smaller screen.

If you're only getting it for games there's no reason not to just get the 16 GB, you'll just have to uninstall bigger stuff periodically to make room. You can always redownload from iTunes or the App Store.

Mr. Owl posted:

Unfortunately the iPod Touch 5th gen is secretly an old device. If I am not mistaken, its specs are on the same level of the original mini/iPad2. So 512mb ram A5 chip-set. If you're OK with that older level of performance, you might as well get a cheapo older device. The best buy in terms of how long the device will last you and performance ATM is the mini2. If you're wanting to buy Apple for gaming, I would say also consider that older devices get dropped from support, and iPods are always the first hit since they've never had high performance.

bad day posted:

Thanks - I dislike the "choice of" game design, though - it's a bit like KOTOR where basically the same scenes occur differently depending on your choices, but all the scenes are themselves the same. I find this doesn't have much replay value. What I liked most about 999 was that despite the few number of choices in the story, each run through the game presented a different set of events, and each contribute to the overall ending in a very interesting way.

I'm more interested in a sort of interactive novel where there are events taking place on a schedule and your choices of where to go, who to talk to, and what to do, determine which of (say) 8 major story branches, each having 4 or so possible endings. The different branches depict the same events from different perspectives and levels of participation. I was thinking that from a programming perspective it would probably be easiest to ape Ryan North's ebook To Be Or Not To Be (which is AMAZING, a much better CYOA than any of the apps we are talking about) and have lots of branches, but no stats.

I have the perfect premise for it, too. One that I'm surprised no one has used before. I think I might write out the "best" storyline as a novella and see what I can do about turning it into a CYOA if people bite.

The Choice Of apps seem to follow a structure that doesn't really branch out all that much..

theblackw0lf posted:

The Visual Novel/Adventure Game Corpse Party comes out tonight. As far as visual novels go I heard this one was quite well received. I think this one has more interactive gaming elements though, like the Zero Escape series.

I'd love to see more Visual Novels on the iPhone. It's really the perfect platform for it. There's a bunch that already have Japanese iPhone versions (like Steins;Gate), as well as having the English translation for some other version. So I don't see why it should be too difficult to convert the Japanese iPhone version to English if the translation is already done.

Zigmidge posted:

Hey Demota I hope you have a real non-gaming need for an idevice because buying one for games seems like a worse financial decision than a launch-day console purchase.

If you're rich that's cool too. When I'm rich I'm going to line one of the walls of my house in tablets and hook them all up together to play the physically biggest cyoa game ever.