Evolve 2011: Stuart Dredges 45 interesting iOS games in 45 minutes
Journalist and blogger around town, Stuart Dredge (Mobile Entertainment, Guardian, The Times, once of Pocket Gamer) gave a whistle stop tour of 45 iOS games he found interesting for various reasons.
1. 1000 Heroz, RedLynz: new content every day for 1000 days
2. The Heist, Tap Tap Tap: Puzzler using existing community to drive downloads
3. 1-Bit Ninja, kode80: Retro graphics with a twist
4. Bumpy Road, Simogo: graphic style, you manipulate the environment
5. Backbreaker 2: Vengeance, NaturalMotion: console-quality using touch controls
6. Saywhat?!, 8linQ: lyrical-based rhythm game, working with Sony
7. Pocket Academy, Kairosoft: porting Japanese PC games to iOS
8. Pit Stop, miSoff: You're just the F1 pit crew - focused gameplay
Social/location
9. CityVille Hometown, Zynga: Mobile game that doesn't link into your Facebook games
10. Shadow Cities, Grey Area: Location-based hardcore, geeky, RPG with gesture controls
11. Tiny Tower, NimbleBit: FarmVille mechanic applied to tower building.
12. Pocket Frogs, NimbleBit: You breed frogs and swap them with friends.
13. My Star, Mobile Pie: Music-themed social game, developed with Orange
14. Tap Zoo, Pocket Gems: Top grossing iPhone game
15. DJ Rivals, Booyah: Social, location, music game spun off from Facebook
16. Twimon, GungHo Online: Foursquare meets Pokemon with a Twitter levelling up mechanism
17. Cache & Seek, VisionArena: Crossover location vs fitness game
18. Gbanga, Millform: Location social game with a $99 World Domination satellite
19. Monopoly Here & Now: The World, EA: iPad game with all-new tabletop mode to share with the family
Hardcore
20. Dead Space, EA: First time EA has taken iPad seriously
21. Fable Coin Golf, Microsoft: Earn coins in iPhone to spend in the console game
22. Real Racing 2 HD, Firemint: 10 hour campaign mode, 16-player MP, YouTube updates, TV-out feature
23. Infinity Blade, Epic/Chair: Console quality graphics with mobile UI and gameplay
24. One Single Life, FreshTone Games: Only one life but backlash over it being a paid game
25. Gun Bros., Glu Mobile: Core social game
26. Sword & Sworcery, Capybara: Beautifully crafted.
Cool Tech
27. Piclings, PAN Vision: Platformer based on photos you've taken
28. AR.Race, Parrot: Hover drone augmented reality game
29. Reflow, Xymatic: A really good show off game (AR)
20. Space Cadet: Pedometer RPG, Gurr And Games: Pedometer RPG!
31. Wiki Golf, Jesse Daugherty: Six degrees of Kevin Bacon on Wikipedia
Music/audio
32. Swing Pong, Head First: Sound-based version of Pong
33. Papa Sangre, Somethin' Else: Audio-only creepy game
34. Angry Hipsters, Colin Tulloch: Angry Birds clone, pulls into hipster music
35. Stem Stumper, Ananse Productions: Another sound-only game
Visual flair
36. Ultimate Alphabet, ToyTek: Taking image-based I Spy game to iPad
37. Albert, Fingerlab: Cardboard/felt graphics.
38. Kami Retro, Gamevil: Old school platforming with a twist
Other stuff
39. Prose with Bros, Evil Laugh Games: Competitive multiplayer fridge magnet game
40. Toca Robot Lab, Toca Boca: Robot-building app for 3 year olds
41. Nancy Drew: Shadow Ranch, Her Interactive: Part game, part interactive book
42. Appysnap, Never Odd or Even: Challenges based around photography
43. Talking Tom Cat, Outfit7: 15th most connected app in the UK
44. Gnonstop Gnomes, Churn Labs: What AdMob's CEO did next. Pass on your gnome
45. Imaginary Range, Square Enix: Interactive comic
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