iPhone/iPod Touch Games Thread

Vesper · 2010-10-20T22:03:46.000Z

TimElhajj:

Not really an iPhone game, but does anyone know of an iPad app that can do eye gaze? By eye gaze, I mean software that allows you to interact with the device using only your eyes?

Wouldn’t that require a camera accessory since the iPad has none?

Omniscia · 2010-10-21T07:09:12.000Z

Cheaper just to buy a mirror.

Drastic · 2010-10-21T07:56:28.000Z

It’s really hard to work the touchscreen using your eyeball, but might technically be possible. Probably better to use someone else’s.

Bahimiron · 2010-10-21T07:58:00.000Z

I think Tim’s just trying to tell us something.

Eye gaze.

Eyegaze.

I gays?

Hmm.

Nope, it’s a mystery.

TimElhajj · 2010-10-21T08:53:03.000Z

Vesper:

Wouldn’t that require a camera accessory since the iPad has none?

I thought it had a forward facing camera? I don’t have one and haven’t been following too closely, but that’s what I thought. I agree you’d pretty much need a camera.

TimElhajj · 2010-10-21T08:55:02.000Z

Bahimiron:

I think Tim’s just trying to tell us something.

Eye gaze.

Eyegaze.

I gays?

Hmm.

Nope, it’s a mystery.

Don’t ask! These are super special military iPads. We’re not allowed to say much. They said, “Don’t tell!”

XPav · 2010-10-21T11:22:11.000Z

So Game Dev story is fun, I’ve probably got 6 or so hours in the game, but it really kind of peters out.

My games all bring in piles of cash, all starting at #1
I write on the moon regularly.
I got the Game of the Year
I built a Bluray 64bit Console as my first console.

What else is there to do?

Chris_Nahr · 2010-10-21T23:25:07.000Z

Helsing’s Fire and Tilt to Live both got Retina updates! And Tilt to Live now supports Game Center, too.

krayzkrok · 2010-10-22T01:07:48.000Z

Bahimiron:

Also, fuck Cut the Rope. I’m done with it. I got 296 stars, so obviously I didn’t hate it, but when I hated it, oh man, I hated it.

296 here also. Let me guess… 4-7 and 4-29. I had to skip 4-29 because" you can’t be serious!!!". Unless I am doing it wrong of course.

In other news, come on folks let’s have some serious competition for the Game Center rankings! ;). Cardboard Box is about as fast as I can manage. Hard to know on the public scoreboard where the cheating stops and the real scores start.

Tracy_Baker · 2010-10-22T06:24:26.000Z

XPav:

So Game Dev story is fun, I’ve probably got 6 or so hours in the game, but it really kind of peters out.

My games all bring in piles of cash, all starting at #1
I write on the moon regularly.
I got the Game of the Year
I built a Bluray 64bit Console as my first console.

What else is there to do?

Move on to the next $3 diversion. Game Dev Story is awesome, but has zero depth.

Eilonwy · 2010-10-22T06:46:06.000Z

krayzkrok:

296 here also. Let me guess… 4-7 and 4-29. I had to skip 4-29 because" you can’t be serious!!!". Unless I am doing it wrong of course.

Bahimiron would like me to tell you: “It was 4-19, 4-20 and 4-25, but I got the fucker BEAT! FUCK YOU, CUT THE ROPE! AND KRAYZKROK, NEVER STOP REACHING FOR THE STARS AND LIVING FOR YOUR DREAMS!”

Tyjenks · 2010-10-25T13:19:51.000Z

How do the Sims titles play on the iPhone?

peterb · 2010-10-25T15:43:10.000Z

“Trainyard” is basically a touch version of Chromatron, if that means anything to some of you. It’s quite good.

Vesper · 2010-10-25T16:11:40.000Z

Trainyard is great, and the puzzles quickly become non-trivial. In fact, I’m not even done with the free puzzles yet (but already bought the pay version).

roBurky · 2010-10-25T16:32:58.000Z

Trainyard is fantastic. The free version is a whole different set of puzzles to the paid version, and enormously generous in its size. I’d have paid money just for that.

Tracy_Baker · 2010-10-25T16:35:47.000Z

Reiner Knizia’s Kingdoms is out as a universal app. For whatever reason it doesn’t have multiplayer, but the AI is good and it’s a neat little themed abstract.

Tracy_Baker · 2010-10-26T12:10:26.000Z

Acquire, a classic board game that revolves around investing in and selling out of real estate, is available as a $.99 rip-off called McGuire.

I also downloaded iDOS today, a universal app based on dosbox that has unzip support and apparently lets you run old DOS games. Haven’t tried it yet, but for a buck I figured I’d take a chance in case Apple pulls it.

ducker · 2010-10-26T12:24:52.000Z

Tracy Baker:

Acquire, a classic board game that revolves around investing in and selling out of real estate, is available as a $.99 rip-off called McGuire.

I also downloaded iDOS today, a universal app based on dosbox that has unzip support and apparently lets you run old DOS games. Haven’t tried it yet, but for a buck I figured I’d take a chance in case Apple pulls it.

and its already pulled :(
I just missed it.

Tracy_Baker · 2010-10-26T13:29:00.000Z

ducker:

and its already pulled :(
I just missed it.

Not surprising. I just loaded it up and the idiots included copies of Dig Dug and Ms. PacMan with it. It’s a miracle it got through the approval process in the first place. Or maybe not, considering how doubtful it is that actual humans are involved in that process.

Joe_M · 2010-10-26T15:54:27.000Z

Oh wow, they got the 7th Guest working as well. One of my old favorites. :)