Next up in the iFanzine chat room is David Marino, co-founder of Hidden Variable Studios. Inside, we learn more about this up-and-coming studio's debut puzzle title, "Bag It!"
"Sink or swim" isn't a term you'd expect to hear about a casual traffic management game set in outer space, but the player sure could use a little help getting started in "Space Tap!" Once that's out of the way, though, this is a solid title genre fans would do well to give a closer look.
A bug-eyed lump of clay lands on a highway to the danger zone, and soon it'll be up to you to help this armless, legless little'un make it to the end alive!
Alawar Entertainment's ushering in the Halloween season early with this time management game, originally developed by Artifex Mundi for the PC. Its status as a port comes as a drawback in the interface department on the smaller iDevices, but "Haunted Domains" is otherwise as compelling as it is spooky.
Inception IQ steps up to the plate with a game that puts a real "spin" (pun absolutely intended) on the typical matching game formula. But if it doesn't go hand-in-hand with depth, can innovation alone be enough to out-maneuver most other genre offerings?
Well mobile gamers, the time has come for us to decide what it is we want. If you ask me, mobile gaming has come to a crossroads, so it's worth examining what people truly look for from the perfect iOS title. And, hey, if we shout it out from the rooftops, maybe, just maybe, some developer somewhere will hear one of us screaming lunatics and deliver!
Yes, they really are a cross between marbles and astronauts -- and getting these little'uns out of their most mysterious predicament constitutes one of this year's must-have iPhone puzzle games.