Neat iPhone apps

[FrogMan]

Frogs sent

FM

[DataKing]

Thanks FM. Much appreciated.

[FrogMan]

no problem. I also wanted to comment on the "install this app and you'll get this frog" part. It's not really necessary to install whatever app they are asking you to install. You simply have to say "yes" which will take you to the app store's page for the app, then come back to the Pocket Frogs and you'll have your frog in your mailbox.

FM

[Glengoyne]

I've been playing a lot of Blokus on the iPad lately. Pretty nice implementation.

[FrogMan]

Dungeon Hunter 2 is on sale for 99 cents today only.

FM

[QuikSand]

So, for some reason I have decided that I want to find a way to play Madden on the iPhone. It's clearly not a great game, but it is a passable football game simulator, and I'm enough of a football fan that I want to invest some time in making this playable. I've gotten *way* more than my 99 cents worth already, but for some reason I feel like I could do better.

Anyway, dumping my progress here:

-I am not actually good at this game, first of all. I really don't understand how to control the players much -- basically the only thing I do is call the plays and select the receiver, the rest is just up to the auto-controls.

-So, this apparently means that I completely suck in the running game, and special teams. I can't really run for much better than 1 ypc on average, and that's usually a string that's something like -2, 0, -3, -1, +2, -2, +14, 0, -3. On kickoff returns, my opponents get to start at about the 40 on average, I'm at maybe the 25.

-What does work is the fly pattern. And the QB sneak, sometimes. And some of the simplest defenses, apparently.

-So, overall, despite my grave weaknesses, in my first season I took Miami to a 12-4 #2 seed and a title, and in my second (hardest skill level) I'm unbeaten so far with the lowly Browns, and it appears that Josh Cribbs will be compelled to dip himself in bronze at the end of his 4,500-yard, 50TD season (this is playing with 3-minute quarters).


Anyway... looking for a workable way to rein in the nonsense.

Best idea I have thus far is to force a rotation of plays on offense. Every time I call a play by category (run, short pass, or long pass) I open that page and am required to flip to the next play listed after the one called previously. That way no hammering the handful of easy fly patterns, or I guess other things that work too well that i have yet to discover. Not sure what becomes the best strategy there, but it would have to be more subtle than what I do now.

Anyhow... I know this is pretty pointless. But anyone else have any thoughts?

[FrogMan]

anybody who might have been tempted to get FMHi but never did, now might be a good time to do so as they are giving away all revenue sales for the next few days

Noble gesture from FM Handheld makers - Newsroom - CM Revolution

FM

[stevew]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

So, for some reason I have decided that I want to find a way to play Madden on the iPhone. It's clearly not a great game, but it is a passable football game simulator, and I'm enough of a football fan that I want to invest some time in making this playable. I've gotten *way* more than my 99 cents worth already, but for some reason I feel like I could do better.

Anyway, dumping my progress here:

-I am not actually good at this game, first of all. I really don't understand how to control the players much -- basically the only thing I do is call the plays and select the receiver, the rest is just up to the auto-controls.

-So, this apparently means that I completely suck in the running game, and special teams. I can't really run for much better than 1 ypc on average, and that's usually a string that's something like -2, 0, -3, -1, +2, -2, +14, 0, -3. On kickoff returns, my opponents get to start at about the 40 on average, I'm at maybe the 25.

-What does work is the fly pattern. And the QB sneak, sometimes. And some of the simplest defenses, apparently.

-So, overall, despite my grave weaknesses, in my first season I took Miami to a 12-4 #2 seed and a title, and in my second (hardest skill level) I'm unbeaten so far with the lowly Browns, and it appears that Josh Cribbs will be compelled to dip himself in bronze at the end of his 4,500-yard, 50TD season (this is playing with 3-minute quarters).


Anyway... looking for a workable way to rein in the nonsense.

Best idea I have thus far is to force a rotation of plays on offense. Every time I call a play by category (run, short pass, or long pass) I open that page and am required to flip to the next play listed after the one called previously. That way no hammering the handful of easy fly patterns, or I guess other things that work too well that i have yet to discover. Not sure what becomes the best strategy there, but it would have to be more subtle than what I do now.

Anyhow... I know this is pretty pointless. But anyone else have any thoughts?

I understand the frustration of the fly pattern. I was playing as the Lions in the iPad version and it was unstoppable to Megatron. Does the iPhone version have automated play calling? Obviously that is imperfect, but at least you have to run what is called for you.

[samifan24]

I'm playing Dungeon Hunter 2 on my iPhone since I picked it up for 99 cents during a sale last Saturday and it's pretty good. It's basically a Torchlight/Diablo clone but it's one of the best looking and deepest iOS games I've ever played.

[stevew]

I Am T-Pain is totally worth a buck.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by samifan24

I'm playing Dungeon Hunter 2 on my iPhone since I picked it up for 99 cents during a sale last Saturday and it's pretty good. It's basically a Torchlight/Diablo clone but it's one of the best looking and deepest iOS games I've ever played.

I also picked it up during that sale and I agree. It's a lot of fun and looks really deep.

I've also been spending quite a bit of time with Infinity Blade and it's just an absolutely gorgeous game.

FM

[stevew]

Street fighter 4 is fun and worth a dollar.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by samifan24

I'm playing Dungeon Hunter 2 on my iPhone since I picked it up for 99 cents during a sale last Saturday and it's pretty good. It's basically a Torchlight/Diablo clone but it's one of the best looking and deepest iOS games I've ever played.

Originally Posted by FrogMan

I also picked it up during that sale and I agree. It's a lot of fun and looks really deep.

after spending some more time with it over the weekend, I'll say it again, this game is a lot of fun. I know the price has gone back up but if it ever goes back down a bit, I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a good hack/slash type of game...

I also have Hero of Sparta II, also from Gameloft, which I bought in a sale a while ago (Holiday sale maybe?) but that I had uninstalled to make room on my Touch. I'm thinking I might reinstall it and see if it's much of the same or not.

FM

[Ksyrup]

I'm pretty sure someone on this board posted about an iphone app that a friend developed for keeping score and tracking stats for baseball games. I don't think it was in this thread (I don't have an iphone, so I doubt I would have seen it here). It must have been in another thread. Anyone recall that post and what thread it's in?

[Ksyrup]

Nevermind...found it.

Business Idea for Youth/Adult Sports - Is there a market? - Front Office Football Central

[dervack]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I'm pretty sure someone on this board posted about an iphone app that a friend developed for keeping score and tracking stats for baseball games. I don't think it was in this thread (I don't have an iphone, so I doubt I would have seen it here). It must have been in another thread. Anyone recall that post and what thread it's in?

gamechanger is free and you can upload the stats to a website. gamechanger.io is the website to check it out. Blackberry app as well.

[SegRat]

Mike Tyson Main Event is worth getting, and best part is it is free.

[Raiders Army]

Strimko Gold is free today. It's supposedly a puzzle game. I downloaded but haven't played yet.

[FrogMan]

Baseball Superstars 2011 is for sale at 99 cents down from $4.99 for opening day. I'm not a huge baseball fan but reviews are pretty good and I'm pretty I'll get more than a buck's worth out of it.

FM

[FrogMan]

Been playing it for 20 minutes now, in the RPG mode and yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun. Definitely got a Nintendo vibe to it.

FM

[cartman]

I played the '10 version and had a blast with it.

[DataKing]

FYI for the Pocket Frogs players out there, you can get one of the new Dextera frogs for downloading AppAllStar (I assume this is for today only).

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by DataKing

FYI for the Pocket Frogs players out there, you can get one of the new Dextera frogs for downloading AppAllStar (I assume this is for today only).

thanks for the heads up, got my free frog.

FM

[stevew]

Traffic Master is free for the next day or so. Pretty fun traffic directing game.

[Scoobz0202]

Iphone question. Decided to not create a thread for it so I thought this might be a good place.

I broke my Droid. I am kind of thinking about waiting for the Droid Bionic, but I'd like to try out an Iphone 4. See what it's all about. My question.

Before my droid broke I knew I had an upgrade coming in July. It was more then likely going to the Bionic or the Iphone 5 if it was out or close to being out. I am pretty anti getting the 4 when the 5 is so close, but now I need a phone. I looked on Ebay, and iPhone 4's are going for 500 bucks give or take. Once the 5 gets close to being released I could sell my 4 on ebay. But, how much do you think the prices on ebay would take a hit for the 4 once the 5 is close to release? Will it be huge?

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

Iphone question. Decided to not create a thread for it so I thought this might be a good place.

I broke my Droid. I am kind of thinking about waiting for the Droid Bionic, but I'd like to try out an Iphone 4. See what it's all about. My question.

Before my droid broke I knew I had an upgrade coming in July. It was more then likely going to the Bionic or the Iphone 5 if it was out or close to being out. I am pretty anti getting the 4 when the 5 is so close, but now I need a phone. I looked on Ebay, and iPhone 4's are going for 500 bucks give or take. Once the 5 gets close to being released I could sell my 4 on ebay. But, how much do you think the prices on ebay would take a hit for the 4 once the 5 is close to release? Will it be huge?

I'd say it would be $300, since it is one generation old.

[Glengoyne]

Great Little War Game, going by the name "Great Little War Game". The free version is keeping me going, and is the only thing keeping Dungeon Hunter two from being played.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

Great Little War Game, going by the name "Great Little War Game". The free version is keeping me going, and is the only thing keeping Dungeon Hunter two from being played.

oh, that looks interesting. Will probably check it out when I get home.

Dungeon Hunter 2 has also received a lot of attention from me lately. Other games I've been playing:
Rimelands: Hammer of Thor, cool turn based RPG with dices to do battles
Baseball Superstars 2011, up to season 8 with my initial RPG player, lots of fun, also started a team season
HR Battle 3D, finally getting somewhere and hitting the ball with regularity
Multiplayer: Carcassonne, Disc Drivin' (new tracks!), Words with Friends

Did some playing with Infinity Blade and FMHi but have not played either in about a week. I had just won my division in FMHi and I know I will get back to it but I've been in a big RPG mood lately... Bought both Eternal Legacy and Sacred Odyssey when they dropped in price to 99 cents and also Chaos Rings when its price was slash to half price so I got some more RPG to try out.

FM

[FBPro]

Cool app that you can sorta "voice text", send short audio messages to those with iPhones and Droids is HeyTell its a free app.

[FrogMan]

World of Goo was released for the iPhone/iPod Touch today and is on sale for 99 cents for the day. At the same time, if you had bought the iPad version, World of Good HD, it became a universal app, making it playable on your iPhone/iPod Touch if you also own one of these devices.

FM

[FrogMan]

also, Asphalt 6 is for sale at 99 cents today and tomorrow only. As far as arcade racing go, the Asphalt series is a pretty good one...

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

Baseball Superstars 2011 is for sale at 99 cents down from $4.99 for opening day. I'm not a huge baseball fan but reviews are pretty good and I'm pretty I'll get more than a buck's worth out of it.

FM

Originally Posted by FrogMan

Been playing it for 20 minutes now, in the RPG mode and yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun. Definitely got a Nintendo vibe to it.

FM

that game has a little timer in it that tells you how much time you've spent in the various modes of the game. I'm 10 seasons into my batter RPG game and I've now logged in 13+ hours of playtime. I'd say I got well over my 99 cents in playing value

FM

[samifan24]

How does Baseball Superstars RPG mode work? That's the game where you have regular players playing alongside cartoon tigers, right? Is there a more realistic mode at all?

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by samifan24

How does Baseball Superstars RPG mode work? That's the game where you have regular players playing alongside cartoon tigers, right? Is there a more realistic mode at all?

it's not really realistic meaning that there's one super batter and one super pitcher per team and they take many kind of weird form. There's even a robot throwing some wildly moving balls, heh.

That being said, you can play as either a batter or a pitcher. You can actually have a career of each concurrent to one another. When you pick "my league" to play, you chose between batter and pitcher. Way it works is you start with lowly skills, play two games at a time and after every second game, you have a choice to make as to what to do with your character: train (in the case of a batter, in hitting, power, fielding or base running), rest, or go out on the town. Your player's morale will go up or down depending on if your team wins and when you train. Too low morale and your player might get depressed and you acquire a negative skill (something like "all skills -20%"). You can also acquire a negative skill if you don't train any of the four at all over a long period of time. Playing a game is fairly simple, in the batter game, you only play your at bats, so they go by fast. At the start of every season, they give you goals to achieve. I assume that if you don't reach them, they might not offer you a contract for the next season. I can only assume since I've always reached the goals they set, but they keep upping them, so at some point I might have a hard time getting them. You can retire your player after the 6th season and I was this close to retire mine after my 8th season in which I kinda slumped a bit but I decided to stick with it for on more and had a monster season, winning MVP.

All in all, it's a lot of fun.

I've also played the HR race mode a little, it's also fun. A lot simpler than HR Battle 3D yet kinda fun too.

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey32

ToonPaint is free now. Makes a cartoon of your photo.

yes, yes, I forgot about that one. Had it on my appshoper wishlist for a long time and finally downloaded it the other day. Works nicely too.

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

Great Little War Game, going by the name "Great Little War Game". The free version is keeping me going, and is the only thing keeping Dungeon Hunter two from being played.

I had downloaded the free version when you posted this but never got to try it. Just deleted it after downloading the full version that is free for the weekend.

FM

[JediKooter]

I'm having fun with the Hipstamatic app and the 8mm Vintage Camera app.

[FrogMan]

Beyond Ynth, a cool and pretty relax puzzler with a nice campaign, is free for 72 hours. It usually sells for $1.99.

FM

[Scoobz0202]

Laying in bed typing this on my iPhone with no power. Storm going through and I looked at my weather channel app at 1211am and it said a tornado touched down outside of my town at 1150pm about five minutes from my house. Anybody know of a weather app that will alert me through notifications? 20 minutes would have been too late, but then again by the time I would get alerted maybe it would have been too late anyways

[stevew]

Why the fuck every popular game app is about birds

[FrogMan]

got on Facebook this morning and there was, posted about 15 seconds before that by Minigore, of which I'm a fan, five promo codes for Death Rally. Said "what the heck, I'll try to redeem one" so I fired up iTunes (which was not running) and I copy/pasted the very first one. What do you know, the app started downloading. WIN!

Sure, it's only $2.99 but again, WIN!

FM

[FrogMan]

and I'll be damned but this Death Rally is a lot of fun! Think top down racing, a bit like EA's Reckless Racing but with guns and armor! Played it for about 45 minutes just now and really, a lot of fun.

FM

[FrogMan]

EA is having a big Easter Sunday sale, lots of titles for sale at 99 cents

iPhone:

• NBA Jam ($4.99->$.99)
• Fifa 11 ($2.99->$.99)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ($2.99->$.99)
• Madden NFL 11 ($2.99->$.99)
• Pictureka! ($2.99->$.99)
• Tetris ($2.99->$.99)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12 ($4.99->$.99)
• Fight Night Champion ($4.99->$.99)
• Scrabble ($2.99->$.99)
• The Game of Life Classic Edition ($2.99->$.99)
• The Sims 3 ($6.99->$.99)
• Monopoly ($2.99->$.99)
• The Sims 3 Ambitions ($4.99->$.99)
• Need for Speed Shift ($2.99->$.99)
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit ($4.99->$.99)
• Fight Night Champion ($4.99->$.99)
• Risk: The Official Game ($2.99->$.99)
• NCAA Football ($2.99->$.99)
• Max and the Magic Maker ($1.99->$.99)
• Dead Space ($6.99->$.99)

iPad:

• ROCK BAND Reloaded for iPad ($9.99->$.99)
• Scrabble ($9.99->$.99)
• Command and Conquer: Red Alert for iPad ($4.99->$.99)
• Max and the Magic Maker for iPad ($4.99->$.99)
• Dead Space for iPad ($9.99->$.99)
• Madden NFL 11 ($12.99->$.99)
• Risk: The Official Game for iPad ($6.99->$.99)
• Fifa 11 for iPad ($9.99->$.99)
• Pictureka! for iPad ($4.99->$.99)
• Reckless Racing HD ($4.99->$.99)
• Scrabble for iPad ($9.99->$.99)
• CLUE: Secrets & Spies ($4.99->$.99)
• The Game of Life for iPad ($6.99->$.99)
• Monopoly for iPad ($9.99->$.99)

I've already picked up Tiger Woods 12 and Fight Night Champion. Fight Night is fun. Started a legacy and have fought a couple fights. I like the controls.

FM

[SegRat]

Tiger Woods for the iPhone is worth .99

[MikeVic]

Is there a good recipe app?

[terpkristin]

Depends what you're looking for. I like and use the Epicurious app a lot. But then, I also look at their website quite a bit.

Cooks Illustrated apparently has an app, too, but I haven't used it yet.

/tk

[MacroGuru]

Betty Crocker Cookbook App
SparkRecipes
Epicurious
AllRecipes
BigOven

All great apps I have and use.

[samifan24]

NBA Jam for the iPhone is awesome

[stevew]

Originally Posted by samifan24

NBA Jam for the iPhone is awesome

agreed.

[terpkristin]

Ok, looking for a recommendation.

I want a game. I want it to be kind of puzzle/strategy but not require twitch reflexes. I like Angry Birds, but I prefer it on the iPad, where I don't have to zoom out too much...on the iPhone, I can't figure out what angle to shoot the birds out unless I zoom out all the way, and then it gets hard to figure out what angle I'm shooting at. Tiny Wings is cute, but the challenges got annoying relatively quickly.

Don't mind paying. Suggestions?

/tk