I've played a couple of decent games and used a few really good apps recently. I was pleasantly surprised by a game called Trace, and another game called Eliss. Also, CatchaMouse and Klikmaster's Hurdler have taken up a good bit of my time, too. I use a couple of other applications for Japanese study, another another to remind me of birthdays. Any other recommendations?
I almost made a similar topic when my brother and I bought an iPod Touch last week. So far I've been using AirVideo, which streams movies from your computer so you can save space. My brother likes LightBike a lot and I find FS5 Hockey (something like that. It's an air hockey game) to be a nice little diversion that even my mum played once. She doesn't touch video games. Also Google Earth is spiffo.
I'd like to make my own, but I don't have the time, energy, patience, or friend to learn Objective C right now. Guess I'll wait for the MMF2 runtime.
Looking forward to others' recommendations so I can waste some more time... I'll have to try the ones you mentioned.
I don't personally have one, but my girlfriend owns one and she has a LOT of applications on it. There's a few tower defence games for it, a mate of mine likes the fishing one where you flick the whole iPod to cast your line, I dunno.. I heard there was a rhythm game made for it, too.
I myself have an iPod Classic 160GB (now discontinued, only comes in 80/120gb now) just because of its practicality of hard-drive space. And Touchs only come up to like 16GB? or 32GB? The touch screen kicks ass and all that, but doesn't persuade me enough to get one until they release one with some fat space. (25gb of music on the iPod and it's not even my entire computer library)
Ah, I always get Klikmaster and KNPmaster mixed up. Sorry about that
Thanks for the tip, OMC. I'll give AirVideo a try.
Is it true that you need a Mac to develop iPhone games? Unity might be able to do it, but I haven't had time to check it out.
jthongbai - yea, the iPod touch only goes up to 32gb. It fills up pretty quickly if you have a lot of music and videos especially. You can choose which playlists to sync to the iPod. So if you're pedantic about organising your songs and actually rate them (eh, like I do), then you can only sync 4 star songs and above. Same for movies, etc.
I'm probably the only chap with one who doesn't play games on it A friend of mine (and ex-klikker as it happens) runs http://appgamer.net/home/ which review iPhone games.
If that's not enough space you can use one of the many media streaming apps. (Which reminds me, Apple's Remote app for controlling your computer's iTunes library is cool, as well as RemotePad, which lets you use the screen as a touchpad.)
There are one or two IDE's that support iPhone dev, I think, but the official and best way so far is to use XCode. My bro has a Mac so I could do it if I wanted, but learning a language is something I'd prefer someone taught me. I think I've learned quite enough about computers to have earned the right to want people to teach me from now on!
EDIT: Actually, Dr. James, I was excited about playing games when we got it, but I've kind of been disappointed in that area so far and have been enjoying the utilities far more.
Originally Posted by jthongbai I myself have an iPod Classic 160GB (now discontinued, only comes in 80/120gb now) just because of its practicality of hard-drive space. And Touchs only come up to like 16GB? or 32GB? The touch screen kicks ass and all that, but doesn't persuade me enough to get one until they release one with some fat space. (25gb of music on the iPod and it's not even my entire computer library)
Yea I prefer my 80gb 5.5G iPod for a music and video player and it'll stay that way until the iPhone gets 128gb.
Originally Posted by OldManClayton
EDIT: Actually, Dr. James, I was excited about playing games when we got it, but I've kind of been disappointed in that area so far and have been enjoying the utilities far more.
Heh, same here. Now I'm more interested in where the machine will go next using the new sensors in the 3GS. I've seen a few rendered tech demos that could potentially happen on the 3GS (like that walking cat one). Just like with the consoles everyone wants funky new input methods.
my favorite iTouch games
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zenonia
peggle
zen bound
reign of swords
edge
eliss
monospace
ensodot
topple 2
newtonica
flight control
zombieville
trace
i left out a litle more than half of them as the others arent that great.
i have 31 games.
Thanks for those recommendations guys. I'll check them out! There's an awful lot of crap on the iPhone already. A torch for 59p! (it displays a white image)
Lol. There are free versions of "torch" going around. To be honest, I have a little play now and then, with the apps on my ipod touch, but they seem to eat the battery in a very short time indeed.
Pudge the fish is kinda cute and fun, made by a guy I speak to sometimes in Gwerdy. It costs but it's not expensive (I think there might be a demo, not sure)
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Also Google Earth is spiffo.
Guess I'll wait for the MMF2 runtime. 
Edited by OMC
A friend of mine (and ex-klikker as it happens) runs 
