3401

Not going to get into the Tower Defense fray again but I’ll say Defender Chronicles is pretty okay but has a lot of grinding involved, I definitely did better with the mage until I got the hang of things. Elemental TD is still my favorite because it’s accessible, appropriately weird, and has a lot of depth.

Speaking of weird I’ve been tinkering with Sourcerer which is an rpg which is poorly translated, real time (which I tend to not favor for my ipod rpgs), a bit tough to control (for a made for iphone/ipad game it sure seems to feel like it wants a stylus, and CRAZY. But it’s also quite pretty, and I guarantee you’ve never seen spellcasting that looks like computer code:


Thankfully that scary screen doesn’t mean you have to type the spell out line by line but that you can just memorize the names and cast them instead of selecting them from a list (which I’m guessing gets massive since I have 4 spells in the first 20 minutes of the game).

It all looks very Final Fantasy PSX era which is pretty high praise for a iphone game in my book. The music is bordering on fantastic, we’ll see how repetitive it gets as I actually get into the game proper.

In the above picture I had to select my companions weapon (separate from my companion) and enchant it with water so he was able to attack this giant orange rabbit. If you like multicolored bars this is your game.

More pictures here, I will add more as I progress.

3402

What’s up with the text being completely unreadable? Is that because of some weird resizing or compression? Otherwise it looks pretty interesting.

3403

It’s not unreadable but it is a very narrow font and very small on the screen.

3404

Well, some jobs have specialties. But a producer with 300 graphics is as good as an artist. But the real trick is to get lvl 5 in all jobs on one character, then you unlock Hardware Eng, and can make a console :o !!

I sold my Wii Fit (Motion + fitness) 55,000,000 copies. Bananas!

3405

I completed ‘Cut the Rope’ last night and then went back and got the handful of stars that I missed in previous levels. Great game, can’t wait until they release a few more levels for it.

I downloaded ‘Broken Sword’ as well, looking forward to having a shot of that.

3406

Three starred every Cut the Rope level! This is the first game since the invention of achievements where I got them all! Great game. Needs more levels though.

3407

Another game I love is Predators, based on the recent movie. You play a predator in a string of arena type closed levels and must slaughter filthy humans. All the levels have specific win cinditions, like rip 10 dudes in half, or stealthkill them all. You level up some weapons too, wich is also nice. It is universal to, and look really good on the iPad. Gamecenter, retina display support too.

There is also a lite version, so you have no excuses!

3408

Ok I think I`ve exhausted Game Dev Story, by year 12 I had a console of my own out and was pulling in 18 mill, or k?(highest was in year 14 at 28mill copies, where I stopped) sales per game and I had well over 400k is cash. However despite putting out several 10,10,10,9 games I never won the game of the year prize.

Kinda disappointed with the develop a console portion, you don`t have near as many options as the game side. Wheres the wacky ideas like?!

Oh, the console I developed was 64bit with a blueray drive.

Are there any other simulationesque games like this? Definitely my favourite genre.

3409

Game Dev Story is really nice, I love the way it captures the whole making videogame gestalt, even if there’s only a thin coat of game… It’s really Progress Quest with some guessing of successful genres…

By the way it reminds me of a freeware game I played like ten years ago, maybe less, on the Mac… There was a movie theme, mostly text based, and you could have John Woo direct a black & white melodrama with a John Williams Score… I really loved that but I can’ for the life of me remember the title… Does that ring a bell to anyone ?

3410

Are you sure it was on the Mac? Because, except for that, this sounds entirely like Hollywood Mogul.

3411

Yeah me too. But man, that game was a destroyer of time. “Just one more game” became my “one more turn”. Seriously, watching numbers getting bigger was awesome!

Also, anyone check out Cartoon Wars 2? The first is an awesome brawler whre you level up and buy better weapons, and I still fully advise you to purchase it. But the sequel has a wierd Tower defense mechanic, where you choose the. Reepa that spawn. Can’t say I like it yet, but it does seem promising!

3412

I did see someone in the park playing it, and yes after talking about it it sounds awesome.

And oh god yes, I put well over 15 hours into the game in a day and a half. Loved it to bits.

3413

Thanks Kaosphere, that must be it. I guess there was a Mac version too… Now if I only could find a working download link to the original freeware one

3414

I played a lot more Game Dev story this weekend than I thought I was going to. So far my best selling game has been a Romance/Action RPG at 2.1M copies.

3415

Between Galaxy on Fire, Starpagga and now Star Battalion the iPhone seems to be shaping up to be the system for people who love space shooters.

3416

Who love space shooters with horrible control schemes… My kingdom for at least a d-pad.

3417

Star Batallion is truly awesome, and controls fantastically with the accelorometer. It controls like a warthog in Halo: you guide the camera and the ship follows. Other games mess it up by making it feel too loose, but this one hits the nail.

3418

As I said earlier in the thread, I shy away from action ganes on this platform, because of my horrible experiences both with simulated joysticks and accelerometer controls.

3419

Sadly the system for people who love recent space shooters with fantastic controls is only available in Narnia.

3420

Your loss! Some games do very good implementation of both, but I have to agree that most suck. Gyro controls are also leaps and bounds better than accelerometer, but devs seem to have trouble using it right ( in Modern Combat 2, you can aim with it, and by swiping the screen at the same time, which leads to horrible jittery mess).