3661

Yeah, that is an odd comparison, rei. IIRC, Incredible Machine illustrates my point perfectly. It’s entirely cerebral, based on placing pieces in the correct place and switching the machine on to see if it works like you expect. If it doesn’t, you just rejigger it and try again. You don’t need reflexes or timing.

By the way, EA’s Create is a more recent example of that Incredible Machine model.

  -Tom
3662

Ha ha, you accidentally posted this here instead of in the Inception thread!

 -Tom
3663

I love me some cut-the-rope. The only game on any system where I got all the achievements.

3664

My god is Dungeon Raid good. Why hadn’t I heard of this. It’s an ironman-rogue puzzle quest.

I’ve played about 6 rounds so far, and every round I’m able to survive another level. It gets BRUTAL around Level 9. Last night I was up way too late playing this… which never happens on an iphone game.

3665

It’s been a few decades so I don’t recall if TIM needed timing, sorry. Yes, I do agree that the timing and reflexes of Cut the Rope is easily its most annoying trait. However, I am easily impressed/charmed by its production values, design and overall value.

3666

JetCarStunts is pretty good value at 1.99, with Retina graphics.

3667

Got Dungeon Raid on a total lark today. Holy shit, is this game fun. The time between ordering a pizza and it arriving was apparently zero seconds, because that’s what it felt like.

3668

When you get to six stacked pizza boxes, it’s time to uninstall.

3669

I’m going to chime in and agree on this one, it’s a really great little design.

I’m curious if there are any score differences between easy/medium/hard? It would be sad if you get the highest scores starting on easy.

This game could also really benefit from an achievement system.

3670

Dungeon Raid is great. Easy to learn and quite addictive.

3671

Where do I find the advent deals?

3672

Appvent Calendar and the Gameloft twitter feed are the ones I’ve been following (though the Gameloft one has only had one actual iPhone game so far).

3673

i’m really liking DungeonRaid. So another vote

3674

Oh man, Game Dev Story is ridiculous. I know I’m late to this thread with the recommendation, but I just got off a kick including probably 10+ hours across two plane flights and playing during some TV watching. Maxed out a dev house like none other.

I was amused that I developed a console that sold about 18 million units, then developed a game for that console that sold 25+ million :-P

3675

“That game was so good, I had to buy another 0.4 copies!”

3676

Sadly, that’s about the time the game stopped being fun for me. But I damn sure got my money’s worth out of it!

3677

Can anyone tell me why Civilization Revolution for iOS is only available in the US? Because I would buy that so hard.

HERE IS MY MONEY LET ME GIVE IT TO YOU SID MEIER.

In terms of other recommendations, Zenbound is a nice weird rotatey spinny game where you wrap a rope round a shape, and Galaxy on Fire 2 is a brilliant Elite style space shooter.

3678

Yeah same. I played to year ~25 or so since I wanted a hardware engineer just for the hell of it, but I had basically beaten the game by year 15.

3679

I wish someone would put 100 Rogues out of its misery. I think it gets buggier with every release.

I can only explain it as the guy making the game isn’t a programmer at all.

3680

Since when? I got it from the German iTunes store way back when it was briefly free.