IOS Games: Difference between revisions

Most iOS devices (at least after the second generation iPod touch) share several characteristics: the most important are the accelerometer/tilt sensor and the touch screen. Many games for the platform are designed to use the accelerometer as a primary control. For example, driving games such as ''[[Pole Position (Video Game)|Pole Position]] Remix'' often have the player tilt the entire unit in lieu of providing a steering wheel, and other games use it to control an object's movement around the screen, such as a marble in a maze. The touchscreen also makes games involving tracing pathways (similar to many [[Nintendo DS]] games) possible alongside old-school PDA tap-and-drag games. The system's API (Cocoa Touch) is similar but not identical to the Cocoa toolkit used on [[Mac OS X]], and uses the same XCode environment as Mac developers use.

Apple traditionally has somewhat of a love-hate relationship with the gaming community, going back to the first Mac and Steve Jobs' insistence that it be treated as a [[Serious Business|serious business]] machine. Though the Mac game market flourished in spite of Apple's ambivalence, games like ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|Marathon]]'' and ''[[Glider]]'' that should have been world-shaking... weren't. For years, Apple's half-assed Pippin console was their only real attempt to court the game market...until the second generation iPod Touch came out. At this point, Apple decided to start leveraging the accelerometers they'd built into late-model MacBooks, which people had subsequently hacked into game controllers. Apple gave the Touch, followed by the next generation of iPhone, similar accelerometers, and positioned the Touch explicitly as a gaming system. Unrestricted by the licensing and hardware barriers of the [[Nintendo DS]] and [[Play Station Portable]], game developers (especially small ones) responded in droves, making an Apple platform a serious contender in the gaming world for the first time since the [[Apple II]] line wound down.

* [[Angry Birds (Video Game)|Angry Birds]]

* [[Angry Gran (Video Game)|Angry Gran]]

* [[The Annoying Orange (Web Video)|Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage]]

* [[Castlevania (Video Game)|Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night]]

* [[Chaos Rings (Franchise)|Chaos Rings]]

** ''[[Chaos Rings (Video Game)|Chaos Rings]]''

** ''[[Chaos Rings Omega (Video Game)|Chaos Rings Omega]]''

** ''[[Chaos Rings II (Video Game)|Chaos Rings II]]''

* [[Dead Space (Video Game)|Dead Space]] (mobile)

* [[Death Rally (Video Game)|Death Rally]]

* [[Doom (Video Game)|Doom Resurrection]]

* [[Dragonvale (Video Game)|Dragonvale]]

* [[Epic Mickey (Video Game)|Epic Mickey]] lead-in

* [[Eternal Legacy (Video Game)|Eternal Legacy]]

* [[Highborn (Video Game)|Highborn]]

* [[Hector Badge of Carnage|Hector: Badge of Carnage]]

* [[Houkago no Kamishibaibu (Visual Novel)|Houkago no Kamishibaibu]]

* [[Humf (Animation)|Humf]] ([[No Export for You|UK only]])

* [[Jetpack Joyride (Video Game)|Jetpack Joyride]]

* [[Mass Effect (Franchise)|Mass Effect: Galaxy]]

* [[Mass Effect Infiltrator (Video Game)|Mass Effect Infiltrator]]

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day]]

* [[Nancy Drew (Video Game)|Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries]]

* [[Rainbow Six (Video Game)|Rainbow Six]]: Shadow Vanguard

* [[Re Rave (Video Game)|Re Rave]]

* [[Save Toshi (Video Game)|Save Toshi]]

* ''[[Sega Superstars (Video Game)|Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]''

* [[Solomons Keep]]

* [[Space Invaders (Video Game)|Space Invaders]] Infinity Gene

* [[Space Miner (Video Game)|Space Miner]]

* [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Video Game)|SpongeBob SquarePants Marbles & Slides]]

* [[Super Crossfire (Video Game)|Super Crossfire]]

* [[Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery EP (Video Game)|Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery EP]]

* [[Temple Run (Video Game)|Temple Run]]

* [[Mini Robot Wars (Video Game)|Tiny Defense]] (known as Mini Robot Wars on the PC)

* [[Unpleasant Horse (Video Game)|Unpleasant Horse]]

* ''[[Where's My Water (Video Game)|Where's My Water?]]''

* [[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D RPG]]

* ''[[Zombies Run (Video Game)|Zombies Run]]''

* [[Aleste (Video Game)|Aleste]]

* [[Battleship (Tabletop Game)|Battleship]]

* [[Double Dragon (Video Game)|Double Dragon]]

* [[Dragon's Lair (Video Game)|Dragons Lair]]

* [[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]

* [[Final Fantasy III (Video Game)|Final Fantasy III]]

* [[Flashback (Video Game)|Flashback]]

* [[Frogger (Video Game)|Frogger]]

* [[Miner 2049 er (Video Game)|Miner 2049 er]]

* [[Pac-Man (Video Game)|Pac-Man]]

* [[Paperboy (Video Game)|Paperboy]]

* [[Pole Position (Video Game)|Pole Position]]

* [[R Type]]

* [[Secret of Mana (Video Game)|Secret of Mana]]

* [[Shining Force (Video Game)|Shining Force]]

* [[Space Invaders (Video Game)|Space Invaders]]

* [[Spot the Dog (Animation)|Spot the Dog]]

* [[Tetris (Video Game)|Tetris]]

* [[Eleven Eyes|11eyes CrossOver]]

* [[Ai to Yuuki To Kashiwa Mochi]] (re-titled "Love Mochi")

* [[Altered Beast (Video Game)|Altered Beast]]

** [[Asteroids (Video Game)|Asteroids]]

** [[Breakout (Video Game)|Breakout]]

** [[Centipede (Video Game)|Centipede]]

** [[Missile Command (Video Game)|Missile Command]]

** [[Pong (Video Game)|Pong]]

* [[Avadon (Video Game)|Avadon]]

* [[Battlefield (Video Game)|Battlefield]]: Bad Company 2]]

* [[Battleship (Tabletop Game)|Battleship]]

* [[Beneath a Steel Sky (Video Game)|Beneath a Steel Sky]]

* [[Bit Trip (Video Game)|Bit Trip]]

* [[Bloons Tower Defense (Video Game)|Bloons Tower Defense]]

* [[Broken Sword (Video Game)|Broken Sword]] & [[Broken Sword (Video Game)|Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror]]

* [[Bubble Bobble (Video Game)|Bubble Bobble Double]]

* [[Canabalt (Video Game)|Canabalt]]

** [[Street Fighter II (Video Game)|Street Fighter II]]

* [[Carcassonne (Tabletop Game)|Carcassonne]]

* [[Chaos Head|CHAOS;HEAD NOAH]]

* [[Chu Chu Rocket (Video Game)|Chu Chu Rocket]]

* [[Civilization (Video Game)|Civilization]]

* [[De Blob (Video Game)|De Blob]]

* [[Duke Nukem 3D (Video Game)|Duke Nukem 3D]]

* [[Earthworm Jim (Video Game)|Earthworm Jim]] port

* [[Fancy Pants Adventures (Video Game)|Fancy Pants Adventures]]

* [[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]

** [[Final Fantasy III (Video Game)|Final Fantasy III]]

* [[Freddi Fish (Video Game)|Freddi Fish]] and the Stolen Shell

* [[Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars]]

* [[Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto III]]

* [[Gunstar Heroes (Video Game)|Gunstar Heroes]]

* [[Harvest Moon Frantic Farming (Video Game)|Harvest Moon Frantic Farming]] (mini-version)

* [[Katamari Damacy (Video Game)|i Love Katamari]]

* [[Kira Kira (Visual Novel)|Kira Kira]] port

* [[Let's Go Find El Dorado (Video Game)|Let's Go Find El Dorado]]

* [[Lumines (Video Game)|Lumines]] Touch

* [[Madden NFL (Video Game)|Madden NFL]]

* [[Maple Story (Video Game)|Maple Story]] Thief Edition

* [[Mega Man (Video Game)|MegaMan 2]]

* [[Mirrors Edge (Video Game)|Mirrors Edge]] port

* [[Monopoly (Tabletop Game)|Monopoly]]

* [[Mortal Kombat 3 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 3]]

* [[Need for Speed (Video Game)|Need for Speed]]

* [[Pajama Sam (Video Game)|Pajama Sam]]: Thunder and Lightning aren't Frightening

* [[Peggle (Video Game)|Peggle]]

* [[Phantasy Star Online 2 (Video Game)|Phantasy Star Online 2]] (Single-player only)

* [[Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]] port

* [[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|Plants vs. Zombies]] port

* [[Putt Putt (Video Game)|Putt-Putt]] Saves the Zoo

* [[Puzzle Quest (Video Game)|Puzzle Quest]] port (Along with ports of Galactrix and PQ2)

* [[The Red Star (Video Game)|The Red Star]] (forthcoming)

* [[Resident Evil 4 (Video Game)|Resident Evil 4]]

* [[Risk (Tabletop Game)|Risk]]

* [[Scribblenauts (Video Game)|Scribblenauts]] Remix

* [[Secret of Mana (Video Game)|Secret of Mana]]

* [[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Secret of Monkey Island]] and [[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge (Video Game)|Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]

* [[Settlers of Catan (Tabletop Game)|Settlers of Catan]]

* [[Shantae (Video Game)|Shantae]]: Risky's Revenge port

* [[The Seventh Guest (Video Game)|The Seventh Guest]]

* [[The Sims (Video Game)|The Sims]] 3

* [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]

* [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]

* [[Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]

* [[Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog CD]] port

* [[Spectre (Video Game)|Spectre]]

* [[SPY Fox (Video Game)|SPY Fox]] in Dry Cereal

* [[Steins Gate|STEINS;GATE]] (Japanese only)

* [[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]

* [[Super Monkey Ball (Video Game)|Super Monkey Ball]] iPhone

* [[Trivial Pursuit (Tabletop Game)|Trivial Pursuit]]

* [[Vay (Video Game)|Vay]]

* [[Virtual Villagers (Video Game)|Virtual Villagers]]

* [[World of Goo (Video Game)|World of Goo]] port

* [[X-Men (Video Game)|X-Men Arcade]]

* [[Zombie Panic in Wonderland (Video Game)|Zombie Panic in Wonderland]]