New Zealand-based iOS programmer Vitaly Pronkin is working on a native Dwarf Fortress app for iOS.
Pronkin made the announcement this week in the Bay 12 Forums.
When asked to explain how his project works, Pronkin explained that it's not a port of Dwarf Fortress, but an iOS app communicating with a dfhack plugin.
Presuming it doesn't get shut down by original Dwarf Fortress developer Bay ...
In board games, it's not uncommon for a popular set of mechanics to get adapted across a range of different themes.
One of the most popular such systems is Commands Colors. It's seen service from the battlefields of ancient Rome, through to the age of rifles, and up to World War 2.
All the games work on the same basic premise. The battlefield is divided into three sections and you have a h...
With the arrival of Black Friday and Cyber Monday this weekend there's plenty of limited-time discounts on hardware.
There's so much of it, in fact, that it warrants a round-up. So, being the kind folks we are, we're providing one for you.
So, if you're looking for a new Android tablet, or perhaps one of those fancy new smartwatches, then now's your chance to satiate your desires and save so...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Proun+
By Engine Software - buy on iPhone and iPad (£2.49 / $3.99)
A wonderfully bright, modern art-infused twitch racer that sees you darting down a tube, tapping or tilting to avoid onrushing obstacles in a brilliantly balanced, expertly put together dance.
Proun+ offers race...
According to a patent application dug up by a NeoGAF user, Nintendo may well be planning to do some mobile emulating of its own.
The patent, which was filed in the middle of the year, is for "a software emulator for emulating a handheld video game platform such as GAME BOY.RTM., GAME BOY COLOR.RTM. and/or GAME BOY ADVANCE.RTM. on a low-capability target platform (e.g., a seat-back display f...
Playing Tainted Keep, we're suddenly reminded that the action RPG has become a woefully underpopulated gaming genre these days.
It seems like they were everywhere for a while, a few years back, and the RPG river has since run dry.
So we jumped into this game eagerly, and perhaps with expectations a little on the high side. Because it seems the action RPG game hasn't returned in full force af...
Updated on November 28th 2014, at 11:40: We've added a bunch more games to the list, including Superbrothers: Swords and Sworcery EP, Alone, and Kingdom Rush Frontiers.
If you see any more great games on sale let us know in the comments.
Original article follows...
It's Thanksgiving. So, first off, happy Thanksgiving to all of our US readers. Hope you have a great time and eat and drink...
The first episode of Telltale's Game of Thrones point and click adventure is set to hit the App Store next week, with an Android version on the way sometime in December.
It's called Iron from Ice, and is set during the events of the third and fourth seasons of the TV show. You play one of five members of the Forrester family, who end up embroiled in intrigue and murder at King's Landing.
...
Proun+ is, at times, beautifully chaotic. It captures the twitchy madness of the likes of Super Hexagon and Unpossible, then parcels it up in the guise of a racer.
The levels you're crashing through aren't random – they're the same each and every time you try and complete them, and that means they're entirely conquerable.
Or at least they should be. But this is a game that prides itself on b...
Updated on November 27th 2014, at 16:25: We've just added Trouserheart, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration), Spirits, and Drive on Moscow to this list.
If you see any more great games on sale let us know in the comments.
Original article follows...
It's Thanksgiving. So, first off, happy Thanksgiving to all of our US readers. Hope you have a great time and eat a...
Qubic Studios has released Lucha Amgios on iOS today. It's about flinging Mexican turtles and horrible cacti.
That's right, instead of ninja turtles, these are Mexican hero turtles, I guess.
The cacti have gone haywire and took over the town, so you have to clear them out by flinging a hard shell at them.
Each level is an interior space with smaller rooms inside of it and, usually, multi...
Developer Takuji Fukumoto hasn't really gone through any effort to cover up the inspiration behind TravelShooting JP.
It's quite clearly his own take on SEGA's classic tunnel shooter Space Harrier.
The difference here is that you play a Japanese schoolgirl with a guitar-shaped gun. Why not?
Other than that, you're travelling across a bizarre version of Japan which has been lifted right o...
And the award for most unwieldy iOS game name goes to... Quetzalcoatl!
Of course, if you're up on your Mesoamerican folklore, you'll know very well that Quetzalcoatl was a feathered serpent god.
Now that this has been established, you can forget all about it, because Quetzalcoatl is simply a very accomplished and delightfully fresh abstract puzzler.
On the slide
Vaguely reminiscent of ...
Syder Arcade HD developer Studio Evil has teamed up with nonsense comic book artist Sio to create a barmy-looking action-RPG for iOS and Android.
It's called Super Cane Magic ZERO, which is a title that might give you an idea of the level of magical buffoonery you can expect from the game.
It's about a guy (or a kid?) called Coso who is so naive that he'll believe anything so hard that it be...
Just over a month after it was released on Android, tactical JRPG Record of Agarest War Zero is available on iOS.
And, as it's Thanksgiving in the US right now, publisher HyperDevbox has put a half-price discount on the game until December 4th.
That means you can purchase it right now for £5.49 / $7.99 rather than the full price of £10.49 / $14.99. That applies to the App Store [buy] and Goo...
It's Thanksgiving. So, first off, happy Thanksgiving to all of our US readers. Hope you have a great time and eat and drink until you're comatose. If that's what you want.
But the holiday also means App Store sales. Rather than just listing all the games you can get for a bit cheaper, we thought we'd curate a list of only the finest, most delectable games that are on sale.
We'll update the l...
There are a lot of game / story hybrids popping up on digital marketplaces these days, and that's not at all objectionable.
Necklace of Skulls from Cubus Games is another hybrid. This mystical Mayan adventure seeks to nestle itself somewhere between the word-heavy Choice of Games books and the dice-driven Fighting Fantasy titles.
It's definitely an enjoyable and intriguing read - the wonderf...
Proun+ is an occasionally bewildering mix of Unpossible, a racer, and smashing your face into a work of modern art. It's just hit the App Store as well, and it's pretty darn sharp.
You play a ball that's racing down a pipe. You need to swing around the pipe, dodging the obstacles that are racing towards you. Everything is bright and bold, and there's a pumping jazz-rock soundtrack accompany...
Kick ass cult classic Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has finally made its way onto iPhone and iPad, and can be yours today for £3.99 / $5.99.
The game's all about hunting down bad guys from wanted posters, and hauling them back into town for a big cash prize. You get more money if you bring them in alive, so you'll have to plan accordingly.
You could run in and beat them to a pulp, or switch...
Offroad Legends 2 doesn't have the bite of a real Trials game. Its levels are short and snappy, its explosions overblown and often hilarious.
But it doesn't click in the way it should. And its frustrating obstacles are just a little too frustrating. They sneak up on you, forcing you to fail through surprise rather than because you got the angle of approach slightly wrong.
It's a shame, becau...
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New Zealand-based iOS programmer Vitaly Pronkin is working on a native Dwarf Fortress app for iOS.
Pronkin made the announcement this week in the Bay 12 Forums.
When asked to explain how his project works, Pronkin explained that it's not a port of Dwarf Fortress, but an iOS app communicating with a dfhack plugin.
Presuming it doesn't get shut down by original Dwarf Fortress developer Bay ...
In board games, it's not uncommon for a popular set of mechanics to get adapted across a range of different themes.
One of the most popular such systems is Commands Colors. It's seen service from the battlefields of ancient Rome, through to the age of rifles, and up to World War 2.
All the games work on the same basic premise. The battlefield is divided into three sections and you have a h...
With the arrival of Black Friday and Cyber Monday this weekend there's plenty of limited-time discounts on hardware.
There's so much of it, in fact, that it warrants a round-up. So, being the kind folks we are, we're providing one for you.
So, if you're looking for a new Android tablet, or perhaps one of those fancy new smartwatches, then now's your chance to satiate your desires and save so...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Proun+
By Engine Software - buy on iPhone and iPad (£2.49 / $3.99)
A wonderfully bright, modern art-infused twitch racer that sees you darting down a tube, tapping or tilting to avoid onrushing obstacles in a brilliantly balanced, expertly put together dance.
Proun+ offers race...
According to a patent application dug up by a NeoGAF user, Nintendo may well be planning to do some mobile emulating of its own.
The patent, which was filed in the middle of the year, is for "a software emulator for emulating a handheld video game platform such as GAME BOY.RTM., GAME BOY COLOR.RTM. and/or GAME BOY ADVANCE.RTM. on a low-capability target platform (e.g., a seat-back display f...
Playing Tainted Keep, we're suddenly reminded that the action RPG has become a woefully underpopulated gaming genre these days.
It seems like they were everywhere for a while, a few years back, and the RPG river has since run dry.
So we jumped into this game eagerly, and perhaps with expectations a little on the high side. Because it seems the action RPG game hasn't returned in full force af...![[Update] The very best iPad and iPhone games on sale this Thanksgiving](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-qozshd_the-banner-saga-11_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on November 28th 2014, at 11:40: We've added a bunch more games to the list, including Superbrothers: Swords and Sworcery EP, Alone, and Kingdom Rush Frontiers.
If you see any more great games on sale let us know in the comments.
Original article follows...
It's Thanksgiving. So, first off, happy Thanksgiving to all of our US readers. Hope you have a great time and eat and drink...
The first episode of Telltale's Game of Thrones point and click adventure is set to hit the App Store next week, with an Android version on the way sometime in December.
It's called Iron from Ice, and is set during the events of the third and fourth seasons of the TV show. You play one of five members of the Forrester family, who end up embroiled in intrigue and murder at King's Landing.
...
Proun+ is, at times, beautifully chaotic. It captures the twitchy madness of the likes of Super Hexagon and Unpossible, then parcels it up in the guise of a racer.
The levels you're crashing through aren't random – they're the same each and every time you try and complete them, and that means they're entirely conquerable.
Or at least they should be. But this is a game that prides itself on b...
Qubic Studios has released Lucha Amgios on iOS today. It's about flinging Mexican turtles and horrible cacti.
That's right, instead of ninja turtles, these are Mexican hero turtles, I guess.
The cacti have gone haywire and took over the town, so you have to clear them out by flinging a hard shell at them.
Each level is an interior space with smaller rooms inside of it and, usually, multi...
Developer Takuji Fukumoto hasn't really gone through any effort to cover up the inspiration behind TravelShooting JP.
It's quite clearly his own take on SEGA's classic tunnel shooter Space Harrier.
The difference here is that you play a Japanese schoolgirl with a guitar-shaped gun. Why not?
Other than that, you're travelling across a bizarre version of Japan which has been lifted right o...
And the award for most unwieldy iOS game name goes to... Quetzalcoatl!
Of course, if you're up on your Mesoamerican folklore, you'll know very well that Quetzalcoatl was a feathered serpent god.
Now that this has been established, you can forget all about it, because Quetzalcoatl is simply a very accomplished and delightfully fresh abstract puzzler.
On the slide
Vaguely reminiscent of ...
Syder Arcade HD developer Studio Evil has teamed up with nonsense comic book artist Sio to create a barmy-looking action-RPG for iOS and Android.
It's called Super Cane Magic ZERO, which is a title that might give you an idea of the level of magical buffoonery you can expect from the game.
It's about a guy (or a kid?) called Coso who is so naive that he'll believe anything so hard that it be...
Just over a month after it was released on Android, tactical JRPG Record of Agarest War Zero is available on iOS.
And, as it's Thanksgiving in the US right now, publisher HyperDevbox has put a half-price discount on the game until December 4th.
That means you can purchase it right now for £5.49 / $7.99 rather than the full price of £10.49 / $14.99. That applies to the App Store [buy] and Goo...
There are a lot of game / story hybrids popping up on digital marketplaces these days, and that's not at all objectionable.
Necklace of Skulls from Cubus Games is another hybrid. This mystical Mayan adventure seeks to nestle itself somewhere between the word-heavy Choice of Games books and the dice-driven Fighting Fantasy titles.
It's definitely an enjoyable and intriguing read - the wonderf...
Proun+ is an occasionally bewildering mix of Unpossible, a racer, and smashing your face into a work of modern art. It's just hit the App Store as well, and it's pretty darn sharp.
You play a ball that's racing down a pipe. You need to swing around the pipe, dodging the obstacles that are racing towards you. Everything is bright and bold, and there's a pumping jazz-rock soundtrack accompany...
Kick ass cult classic Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has finally made its way onto iPhone and iPad, and can be yours today for £3.99 / $5.99.
The game's all about hunting down bad guys from wanted posters, and hauling them back into town for a big cash prize. You get more money if you bring them in alive, so you'll have to plan accordingly.
You could run in and beat them to a pulp, or switch...
Offroad Legends 2 doesn't have the bite of a real Trials game. Its levels are short and snappy, its explosions overblown and often hilarious.
But it doesn't click in the way it should. And its frustrating obstacles are just a little too frustrating. They sneak up on you, forcing you to fail through surprise rather than because you got the angle of approach slightly wrong.
It's a shame, becau...
