Good Game Get! Goat Up
*** GOAT OVER ***
*** GOAT OVER ***
*** GOAT OVER ***
Says Goat Up when you die.
Llmasoft’s vertical platformer is a silly venture upwards with a simple and pure goal of topping the score, and copulating with other goats for babies. The babies are important because you can hit enemies with them, and you can avoid enemies too by whipping yer kids around.Your billy goat and co. will pass through super retro zones full of classically inspired graphics and items.
The game is a pure pick up and play blast. You’ll die, and you’ll restart, and you’ll die, and you’ll restart. It’s good.
It’s real good.
Congoatulations.
- Kyle
Xlarge X-Baseball for iOS
Simply addictive…
This one’s a must try. It’s free. It quickly reminds you of the toy sport handhelds that only allowed one action, but you kept on playing because, well, you had to get the high score. It’s like a chip, or a pretzel, or a tootsie roll… impossible to have just one (or in this case, play just once). And if you get too good, they bring out a gorilla to hurl fastballs at your head. What’s not to like?
But can anyone explain why some guy in the stands is hurling bananas?
- Andy
The Last Rocket
Intergalactic war is over…
There’s three things that make The Last Rocket, a retro iOS platformer, worth checking out…
1. The very cool pixel art and chiptuney music. (here’s a movie)2. Smooth as silk, native iOS tap & swipe mechanics. (here’s the iTunes link)
3. The little rocket’s friend is a first gen Mac! (learn more)
Regardless of how beautiful video game graphics become, I’ll always be attracted to well designed pixel art over realistic visuals every time. And hey, did I mention the little Mac. :-)
- Andy
Painful Helplessness: When Integrity is Pushed Aside for Money
If you haven’t played Vlambeer’s Radical Fishing you owe it to yourself to play one of the most wholly original little games ever. The premise is best experienced than described as the rad Brandon Boyer once sort of said of the game.
The developer was stoked to get into re-developing the game for iOS with all new gorgeous graphics (seen above) and tighter gameplay, and so Zach Gage of Vlambeer teamed up with Greg from aeiowu. However, little did they know that while they were prepping and designing Ridiculous Fishing, that a shameless and disgusting clone of their was dropping on the App Store by a small company called Gamenauts.
The ripoff game is called Ninja Fishing and features precisely the same exact gameplay and scoring system as the original Radical Fishing and Ridiculous Fishing.
Greg from aeiowu wrote the following heartbreaking lines in an open letter to Gamenauts.
“But now, I’ve lost that. I wake up and I can’t think of working on Ridiculous Fishing without being reminded of this ugliness. It confuses me and stops me in my tracks. There are chunks of time, maybe 20 minutes, where I can work away and try to forget about Gamenauts and Ninja Fishing. Those are nice but have been getting more infrequent.
Today, was especially hard. Ninja Fishing reached #7 on overall apps in the app store and it upset me more than I thought anything in this business could. I broke down.”
He then bravely goes on to declare that “It’s ok. It’s gotta be ok.” He has decided that he needs to forgive Gamenauts for what they’ve done as not to be consumed by confusion and hate inside of him.
“When we release Ridiculous Fishing, I have no idea how it’s going to do but I’m sure there will be plenty of people calling us the copycats and that’s going to hurt. A lot.”
That last line makes me tear up a bit.
I hope that Gamenauts just pulls the game, and takes their money. I doubt they will, but that is the best I could ask for right now, and unfortunately the most realistic.
It probably won’t happen.
If you haven’t bought Ninja Fishing, please do not buy it. The people who have bought it and continue buying don’t know better. Please forgive them too, and don’t be angry with the customers who don’t read about games, but just play them, and trust that nothing shady and awful is going on.
If you have bought Ninja Fishing - leave the bastards a terrible review.
They deserve whatever is comin’ to ‘em.
They disgust me.
- Kyle
Good Game Get! Allied Star Police
Owain has pre-B Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. A terrible disease that requires various stages of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Hearing about children with awful diseases like this can be heartbreaking, but it’s always wonderful to hear about the great things these children can be allowed to do.
Make-A-Wish and PopCap teamed up to help Owain design an iOS game, and the result is ridiculously cheesy, streamlined, and fun castle defense game called Allied Star Police.
The game is free of course, although I think they probably could’ve charged and had the proceeds go to charity, but either way it’s really lovely to see a cool company like PopCap allowing a child in pain to direct his own video game.
- Kyle