KiloOhm
3101
Geez. I was about to come here all proud of my 61 million score…I’ve got a loooong way to go. :)
datter
3102
I highly recommend Solipskier which is best explained with the flash version here, which plays identically.
Has a nice visual aesthetic. Great music. Unique (to me) gameplay.
My advice, go the Tom Chick route and decide that time trial is the way to go. Get a high score there and brag. These 2 billion plus games take a long time. :)
I’ve taken a sort of zen approach to Warblade. I only play maybe 10-15 minutes a day in short bouts, regardless of my score. It took over two weeks to get up to 5.something billion. (I’m -rond on OpenFeint, if you want proof - I have no clue how to take a screenshot on the iTouch)
But I make no claim to being better than anyone else. The best weapon can kill anything and do it forever and ever. On some levels you have to shoot at things right at the bottom, so you cannot dodge any bad drops. On the later levels, some drops = certain death. How big a score you can rack up before that happens is just plain random chance.
To take a screenshot tap the power and home buttons at the same time.
Ron, you’ve summed it up nicely. Though I’m still wondering if there is some secret out there that allowed the 35+ billion players to get that high. If they were just lucky…well, they probably should have played the lottery instead.
That’s probably a good thing though, because otherwise you literally could go on forever. The main reason I died at 1.92 billion was because I played the damn thing nearly continuously (back then I didn’t know if it saved the game state if you quit out on pause, and I wasn’t going to risk it!) and it was getting pretty tedious. It wasn’t getting hard enough quickly enough so I started getting a bit reckless, and the final game over was more of a relief. I haven’t touched it since. Of course, the fact that I haven’t deleted it from my phone is telling…
I’ve got a 10 billion point game that’s been on pause for a while now. I’m not even certain about bad luck being a killer–the only thing I can think of that’s really hazardous is a quad-fire pickup (once you’ve played enough to disable single- through triple-fire). And even there, I’ve managed to survive an unlucky drop on one of the later levels by switching to missiles. The only real obstacle to arbitrarily high scores that I can see is boredom.
I was planning on getting to god rank with this game and packing it in, but I’m still missing one secret in this game. I don’t know if I’ll bother to make a second run at it. It was fun while it lasted, though!
Infinite hurry up bug is more deadly then the unlucky quadfire. Sometimes you can squeak by after the quadfire with lucky level-ending drops and missiles, but that bug leaves you hosed – along with a bitter taste in your mouth and an unwillingness to play again until the developer fixes it.
I wish someone would make a decent version of the card game Mille Bournes. I loved playing that game as a kid!
Ah, Mille Bournes. When I was young my dad told me they’d banned the game in France because it was so frustrating. At the time I thought he was serious, but like Calvin’s dad I think he may have been joking. Although it did lead to a few dummy spits. Eventually I wrote my own version in BASIC (!) on the ZX Spectrum. I wanted to rename it Mille Annee because it took so damn long to move.
Anyway, here’s what you’re looking for… hopefully also available in the US store. There used to be more a few months back, but they’ve now vanished without trace. Grab this one now if you want it then, just in case…
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/milliarium/id362845994?mt=8
Hello, this is french spelling nazi speaking.
That would be “1000 bornes”, citizen. Thanks for your attention.
Zombie Escape is really excellent! Great evolution of the path-drawing genre. Also, zombies. Why hasn’t Tom posted a review on Fidgit yet? After all, the game has zombies.
If anyone wants to add me to their friends list with either Crystal or OpenFeint, my handle on both is “Jim Preston”. My real name is actually Killdozer3000, but Jim Preston is more badass so I use that as my internet name.
Palm Heroes, the blatant rip-off of Heroes of Might and Magic II, is free right now.
Jim, I’ve signed up to Crystal now (username cnahr) but the system says it can’t find a user called “Jim Preston”. Nor Killdozer3000, for that matter. Can you find me (cnahr)? Or anyone?
I can’t add you on OpenFeint because I don’t have an OpenFeint game installed right now. But you can add me if you like (also cnahr). :)
I just went on a Reiner Knizia buying spree (Apple gave me a stack of iTunes card for testing the iPhone4). Some good singleplayer games (Poison is my current favourite) and some so so.
His Samurai is pretty good and I’d love to play if anybody else has it. Username is Hanzii.
I also need more Carcasonne games:
hanzii[at]lauring[dot]net
The implementation of Samurai is really good, though the visuals are a little cheesy. I always figured Samurai was classier than this.
The notification that it’s your turn is a little wonky, though.
And that sound effect is nerve wracking.
It does kind of suck. It’s a shame they couldn’t make a version that looks like the excellent one Klear did years ago: http://www.klear.com/new/games/samurai/
Update: Just got the notification e-mail and added you as a friend worked. Strange that it didn’t work from my side. I sure wish all the iPhone developers would agree on one social network to use and stick with it.
