Zero Punctuation: iPhone Games

[GuiltBlade]

In answer to your question Yahtzee, through an incredible long straw and a very dedicated hydroponics plant floating in orbit.

A refreshing break of pace, although I was hoping for some of the more bizarre releases for the iPhone.

Good show and looking forward to any more adventures into the world of alternative platforms.

 

[no one really]

I don't have an iphone and I use a fishbowl to breathe, thank you very much.

 

[Red-Link]

It's probably already been mentioned, but I feel the need to mention that a lot of these ideas are present in various forms the online Flash community (such as games like Crush the Castle for Angry Birds or Splitter for Cut the Rope), or are flat-out released there, often before the iPhone release (Doodle God).

I'm not trying to bash the amount of variety in the iPhone games, but I do wish that the Flash artists and programmers could get some support for the things they do. Often that's where I feel the best new ideas are, even if it's not necessarily the best implementation of them. Just play a few of jmtb02's games to see what I mean.

By the way, for people who've played this game, but not played Cut the Rope, when you first saw words relating to rope, were you also hoping for something along the lines of You Have to Burn the Rope?

 

[Jester00]

good job yahtzee. fruit ninja rules btw.

 

[Jackpot]

I found a way to breathe on mars because I am not a ******.

(PS : no, not homosexual people. the other kind.)

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm... i need an IPhone? Butbutbut... i don't even have a normal cellphone. (Well... i have a 11 year old one in some drawer, with a defect power pack and no account)

I don't WANT people to be able to disturb me at all times...

But back to games on phones... it is A DAMN PHONE. You talk into it and you hear some other dude reply. Damn kids with their hoverboards and kinect and jetpacks... (Information: i am 28 *g*)

 

[Fatal-X]

Meh. I'm disappointed this week Yahtzee. I don't give a flying shit about Apple's little money printer.

 

[BOBdotEXE]

who needs an iPhone, when you have PALM OS!!!
FTW!!!
not STUPID WEB OS;
I'm rockin' the 2005 PALM T|X
why???
because I can go online via INFRARED!!! (and WIFI+bluetooth+USB)
how cool is that!!!

 

[deathmetalfan]

I guess I figured out how to breath on Mars Yahtzee. I don't own an iPhone and don't plan on buying one because the whole 'i' thing is frankly below me, I had an iPod at one point and all it brought me was frustation and so many curses that I think I've officially been banned from any sort of afterlife, good or evil.

 

[mrwoo6]

What's all this about innovation? Use physics to get something to fall into a hole game? shooting projectiles to knock down buildings and kill those inside? cutting flying things on your screen?

Do people ever played any online flash games?..

These games are hardly innovative and, in comparison to all the triple A games, they might keep you entertained for an hour or two. not really worth it for something i could get for free online.

Does making the game itself portable make it innovative? i don't think so personably but others might.

 

[Artina89]

I breathe just fine on mars I hate iPhones, but very good review, I found it enjoyable.

 

[bootwhistle]

I guess iphones are culturally grafted to almost everything now. I have no intention of ever getting an iphone but the episode was interesting and entertaining enough... at least in comparison to other things.

 

[geldonyetich]

Good call to do this week's feature on iPhone games, but I can't help but feel he only covered the very tip of a monolithic iceberg.

 

[Han zup]

Yahtzee.. What the hell? Your not honestly one of those retarded, childish f*ck heads that thinks cr*ppy iphone games are as good as any console?

You know who enjoys iphone games? Children! The kind of children that need entertaining every bloody second of every day, who can't take a ten minute journey without feeling the need to slice fruit.

Besides sh*tty iphone apps aren't the only way to get new low budget ideas out there, Xbox have an indie game section and I'm pretty sure there was another thing... This little thing called the fucking INTERNET!!!

 

[Arachon]

I'd just like to point out that rendering Marcus Fenix's nipples isn't that expensive, as an indie developer, you can license the Unreal Development Kit (the engine on which Gears of War is done) for a mere $99, which is really cheap for a full game engine. The catch being, of course, that Epic will take 25% of all your profits > $5000, but considering that the Unreal Engine 2 was priced at around $350000, it is kind of a good deal.

 

[Sayvara]

I brought an oxygen tank, yahtzee. Duh.

So did I! It's called "Android".

Got a SonyEricsson X10 and it kicks the living daylight out of my sweet loving partner's iPhone, or as I call in in my native tounge: i-Fåne (mean i-Fool). And all the games that Yahtzee reviewed are on that too.

/S

 

[Zanaxal]

Iphone minigames on a games meccha site? new low.

Why does yahtzee review Psp, Nintendo DS, Gameboy games, Junk with a battery, screen, dpad etc. anyhow?

If you need a list of pc/ps3/xbox360 games to review which don't bore your mind out of your skull let me know.

I'd concider anykind of 2d game antique now. I bet if someone would put alex the kid or mario 1, bubble bobble, golden axe on the ipod whatever and resell it would be the "best game ever" on those machines .

Only 2d sidescroll games i ever found interresting are flight games and maybe a few war games.

Anyhow for 2d games, the flash game creators probably beat them by far in innovation but grafics they can't win in.

 

[Gplars]

mars is lovely in the winter and my fellow iphones less brethren all have a plethora of air tanks and good games by law of Mars

 

[Ben Anderson]

I have this HTC desire phone, (its technically better than a iphone), it also has android, ( the Microsoft phone os); and that's how i managed to breath on mars.

My brother has the Desire HD which is better than the original desire you say you own, and its specs are identical to the iPhone4. But where the Desire HD has a better camera, the iP4 has a better display so its really just down to which brand you feel like humping.

Oh, you also fail incredibly hard, I mean stupidly INCREDIBLY hard, for thinking that Android is Microsoft's mobile OS. ITS GOOGLE YOU NIT-WIT.

 

[lord.jeff]

I don't own in Iphone, in fact I have a Nokia prepaid gophone my phone only does calls, texts and has a flashlight and yes I am proud of having a cheap phone thats only a phone.

Although I have played the games mentioned in the review except the physic game he mentioned but a played a very similar flash game in fact I played all of the rest as flash games, so if your interested in playing the games just do a google search without buying an Iphone or paying any money at all they are all rather fun. My only problem with them is none of the games mentioned with the exception of doodle gods is original, if you play flash games you would have seen this games years ago done by different people. I do like the Flash and phone games it's a great place to try something new or just really weird without huge risk but half of them are still just tower defense games or physic puzzles.