iPhone Gaming
My iPod Touch has become my main gaming device, (and now my recently purchased iPhone 3GS) partly due to the low prices of games, but mostly because of the convenience and choice available. The success of the iPhone platform is the App Store as Greg Joswiak, (Apple’s VP of iPod and iPhone product marketing), explained to Edge Magazine:
How do you update a cartridge? You can’t. But you can update the games here via the App Store and that’s an automatic process. Not to mention not having to carry around a bucketful of cartridges. You can store as many games as you have space for. Everything about the iPhone suggests where the future is headed, and I think a lot of the other guys are trying to scramble for what they do in response.
So although I’m not a fan of “list” blog posts, here are my favourite games for the iPhone
What I’m Playing:
- geoDefense: Gorgeous looking, retro-inspired tower-defence game. Satisfyingly difficult, I only seem to progress one level a day despite clocking in way too many hours playing it.
- Strategry: Maybe its my colonial heritage kicking in, but I love the turn-based Risk-like World Domination of Strategery. Very well designed, easy to pick up, and really fun to play.
- Rolando: Fun platform game, that makes full use of the touch-and-tilt capabilities of the iPhone platform. Huge game with 36 levels… Rolando is out this summer and I’m only halfway through the first one.
- Edge: 3D maze game in which you guide a colorful cube that moves about a series of 3D, isometric maze environments (in all) full of puzzles to solve and hazards to avoid. through hazardous environments. Great looking game with an 80s Tron feel to it.
- Wolfenstein 3D: The grandfather of first person shooters, brilliantly ported to the iPhone by John Carmack himself. He really nailed the controls and the game feels at home on the iPhone.
- Frenzic: Six circles, divided into six pie-piece slivers. Fill each circle to win points and clear the board, bonus points if you fill it with a single color. The premise is simple, brilliantly executed with online leaderboard integration. One of my favorite iPhone games.
- Drop7: Based on the popular Flash game Chain Factor, numbered discs drop into the grid, when the number on a disc matches the amount of discs in its row or column it disappears. Drop7 is my favorite “play whilst watching television” games.