Wednesday, June 24, 2009

latest consuptions - vacation edition

Games:

  • Uniwar - totally classic hex-based strategy on the go. Love it.
  • Peggle iPhone -Ah fuck it, I love Peggle.
  • Drop7 - 9 hour flight + Drop 7 + Growing = drugs.
  • Primrose - Minimalistic puzzle game by Jason Rohrer, minus anything Jason Rohrer.
  • Wolfenstien 3d iPhone - Utterly terrible port. Why does this game have blurry, blown up pseudo-pixels instead of crisp, beautiful sprites? Just give me classic Wolf3d, okay? Don't upscale anything.
  • Lilt Line - Nice visual style, but sorta bland game design. It's just tilt controlled helicopter with some graphic design sense. Then again, it's cheep so whatever, it's worth a play.
  • Reflexion - Breakout on crack with perfect touch controls.
  • Eliss - I like. More like this, please.
Books:
  • The Road - Total downer... but incredible.
  • Wizard of Earthsea - It made me want to replay Windwaker.
  • Tombs of Atuan - It made me want to replay Ico.
  • Black Jack - Book 1 - Osamu Tezuka classic about a doctor super hero. Pulpy and cheesy as hell, but worthwhile.
  • The Shadow out of Time - I don't know what it is about Lovecraft but his books are never scary... until I actually fall asleep. Then I always have the most horrible nightmare of my life.
Films:
  • Up - Not as good as I hoped, but still full of Pixar goodness.
  • Tales of Earthsea - I need more Earthsea!!!
  • Street Fighter: The Legend of Chung Li - In-flight movie number 1, mind numbingly horrible.
  • The International - In-flight movie number 2, surprisingly interesting. Clive Owen is a dream boat.
Other iPhone Apps:
  • Stanza - 51 books on my iPhone for free, including every Conan tale and everything HP Lovecraft. I love it.
  • Buddha Machine - Ye ol' Buddha Machine, but on the iphone. Perfect, looping ambient goodness.
  • TonePad - Very addictive, free music generator.
  • 8bitOne - Fully functional chip tunes program. Really amazing.