iPhone/iPod Touch Games Thread

rei · 2010-12-24T23:38:13.000Z

iPad only:

My Kingdom for the Princess
Corpse Craft
Game Table
Small World
Settlers of Catan HD
Dominion HD
Highbord HD
Helsing’s Fire HD
Words With Friends HD
Fruit Ninja HD
Plants vs Zombies HD
Flight Control HD
Harbor Master HD
Labyrinth 2 HD
Space Station Frontier HD
Puzzle Quest 2 HD
Civilization Revolution HD
The Settlers HD

Scrabbble, Uno, Monopoly have iPad-only versions

There’s an Ipad games thread somewhere around here…

Universal games:
Carcassonne
Trainyard
Neuroshima Hex
Drop7
Strategery
Knights of the Phantom Castle

You might want to wait until a lot of the more expensive ones go on sale and monitor with a free app like AppShopper in conjunction with their website. Or wait around for $50 iTunes cards for $40 (or $25 cards for $20) that go on sale every few months (Costco has them at a slightly discounted rate don’t they?) as well.

Toucharcade.com and appadvice.com have regular roundups of what’s on sale. Toucharcade.com currently has a ‘best of 2010’ feature on right now. Slidetoplay.com is also another good review site you can sort by scores.

Mrenda · 2010-12-26T13:05:21.000Z

I put together my shekels from Christmas and with a combined birthday present effort I got myself an iPod Touch 4G 32gb. It’s a great little thing, and I’ve been loading up music, books and videos to watch in bed. There is one ballache of a problem though. Whenever I try and load a big file (so far a couple of the lite games I’ve tried to load) I get an error message about resource files being changed. I’m restoring the iPod to factory defaults to see if that’ll have an effect, and if not it’s going back to the shop. Which would be a pity. In the mean time I have at least a years worth of Touch Arcade to browse, and this thread.

To avoid this being a blog post (and because I want to know,) what are the best trade type games for the iPod Touch?

Mrenda · 2010-12-26T13:56:46.000Z

Aaaaand… My iPod is bricked.

Good job Apple. You’re restore system really works wonders.

WhollySchmidt · 2010-12-26T13:57:16.000Z

They are not restore system.

rei · 2010-12-26T14:06:46.000Z

it’s brand new. get it swapped at apple store. that should be easy.

datter · 2010-12-26T14:15:55.000Z

Buceph:

Aaaaand… My iPod is bricked.

Good job Apple. You’re restore system really works wonders.

I thought I had bricked my iphone on a couple of occasions while jailbreaking. I ended up saving it by getting it into recovery mode. Not sure if this will help you (or if you’ve already tried it), but it’s worth a shot.

kaosfere · 2010-12-26T14:20:35.000Z

If you want to save yourself a trip, first try putting the phone into DFU mode before you connect it. That’s the standard unbricking of last resort.

kaosfere · 2010-12-26T14:21:25.000Z

Annnnnd that’s what I get for opening a bunch of threads in tabs and then abandoning them for a few minutes.

Mrenda · 2010-12-26T14:22:49.000Z

datter:

I thought I had bricked my iphone on a couple of occasions while jailbreaking. I ended up saving it by getting it into recovery mode. Not sure if this will help you (or if you’ve already tried it), but it’s worth a shot.

Nope. That doesn’t work and I had tried it. It is very definitely and expensive brick. Sad when I had it less than 12 hours. But it’s better it dies sooner rather than later, seeing as it had problems transferring large files.

Mrenda · 2010-12-26T15:49:34.000Z

kaosfere:

Annnnnd that’s what I get for opening a bunch of threads in tabs and then abandoning them for a few minutes.

Don’t be sorry. I tried it again for good luck having seen your post and it worked (sort of.) It still has the problem transferring games. So I don’t know what I’m going to do with it.

datter · 2010-12-26T17:00:22.000Z

What exactly are you trying to install?
How big is it?
How are you going about doing it? (itunes I presume)

I did a bit of googling and the only mention of problems related to resources being changed seems to be devs talking about packaging and testing their apps.

peterb · 2010-12-26T20:39:26.000Z

Buceph:

Don’t be sorry. I tried it again for good luck having seen your post and it worked (sort of.) It still has the problem transferring games. So I don’t know what I’m going to do with it.

If I had a brand-new iPod that was having trouble, I would bring it to an Apple Store. They’re really quite helpful.

Mrenda · 2010-12-27T13:38:44.000Z

It’s all working fine, now. So I’ll leave it be, but keep the receipt at hand.

On another note, does anyone know anything about Gaia Games. I wanted to get one of the Sword and Poker games but none of them are available. Not the first, second or lite versions. And there website has a placeholder on the mainpage saying the site is now inactive. So if they’re bankrupt it would be a balls.

rei · 2010-12-27T14:08:11.000Z

Damn, I still have my IPAs but I just checked and it says “no longer available” when I try to re-buy.

Sebmojo · 2010-12-27T14:26:56.000Z

TimElhajj:

I didn’t do it that way. It never occurred to me to share an account with my wife and kids. That seems terrible. The kids would get all their Glee stuff mixed up with my 70s pop music. And I don’t even know what my wife listens to.

notatiger:

Sorry for the derail, but what? You don’t even know what sort of music your wife listens to? Christ, get off the internet and go talk to her.

Musashi:

I know what kind of music my wife listens to - and I sorta wish I didn’t. Beware Pandora’s Box.

TimElhajj:

I just asked her and she said “None of your business.”

Thanks, notatiger. Thanks.

TimElhajj:

And then she said, “Get back on the internet.”

Ha, ha, ha! That’s why I married her!

Quoted for ‘funny coz it’s true’ marital hilarity.

Adding value - just bought Warpgate, which looks like it will be fun once I suss the combat out, and the amazing Looptastic - seriously, if you have the slightest interest in music grab it and have a play.

fiveolddogs · 2010-12-27T17:21:45.000Z

Buceph:

On another note, does anyone know anything about Gaia Games. I wanted to get one of the Sword and Poker games but none of them are available. Not the first, second or lite versions. And there website has a placeholder on the mainpage saying the site is now inactive. So if they’re bankrupt it would be a balls.

Looks like the web site and the store page are working fine now (in the US anyway).

Bahimiron · 2010-12-27T18:06:30.000Z

fiveolddogs:

Looks like the web site and the store page are working fine now (in the US anyway).

Can you actually buy them? Try buying the lite versions. Try to buy them and a message pops up saying that they’re no longer available.

rei · 2010-12-27T18:19:43.000Z

Message on front says website is inactive. :/

PeterGinsberg · 2010-12-27T22:05:01.000Z

Quaro:

Anyone try Papa Sangre? Sounds fascinating…

http://www.papasangre.com/

I’m so cheap with iPhone games. 6.99?

My short review: It’s a wonderfully polished implementation of a terrible, terrible idea.

Diddums · 2010-12-27T23:21:06.000Z

Buceph:

On another note, does anyone know anything about Gaia Games. I wanted to get one of the Sword and Poker games but none of them are available. Not the first, second or lite versions. And there website has a placeholder on the mainpage saying the site is now inactive. So if they’re bankrupt it would be a balls.

Terrible news, but I’m really curious about the circumstances. It’s almost inconceivable how a small studio with well-above average sales (S&P hit #2 on the US market, #1 in Japan) would go out of business, litigation aside. If they never released anything else, you’d think they’d still want to collect the (slight) revenue from their existing products.