Apr 20, 2010
3 great iPhone games that should be more popular
I could be wrong and maybe some of these apps are more popular than I think, but I haven’t seen them around too much, so I’m going to make some assumptions. This list is not in any particular order by the way.
1. Pocketball – I love this puzzle game. You have to tie strings across pegs and then bounce balls into boxes – a bit tough to describe properly, but it’s a great game, with very satisfying sounds when the balls knock around.
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2. Fox Vs. Duck – An incredibly stylish game. Visually, it’s mostly done in shades of grey (with some wine red blood coming when you don’t save the ducks fast enough). The little touches are very nice, for instance the way the menus slide on and off screen one by one. Overall this is just a really well done game, and probably the most design-y game I can recall playing.
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3. Bitboxland - A crazy musical game… err, is this a game per se? I guess it is since you play with it, but it’s more of a musical toy now I think of it. It took me quite a while to actually clue in to how this works, and the fact you can click more than the little clouds that float by, and I don’t know if I can really say I’m that expert at it even now, but this is how it works: You see some sweet pixel art. Clouds fly by. You tap them, they make sounds. After a while, more and more things appear that you can tap. You wind up making very cool musical loops, and you can record a drum loop and play it back. It’s a bit confusing, but overall it’s trippy and cool.
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Guess what? I was going to make this list a few apps longer, but I feel like I have covered enough right now and I might as well leave myself some room to add some in another post (although believe me, I have a zillion apps I love and it shouldn’t be tough to write about a lot of them eventually).