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TCE iPhone Games by Indie (and mainstream) Game Professionals

TheChaosEngine – private forums hangout for games-industry professionals. There’s an epic thread on there where people post projects they / their team / their employer has published on iPhone. It’s currently 40 pages long, so I went through and pulled out the links to the iTunes pages for each game.

NB: these run the gamut from “my first iPhone app” to “large-team of developers working for multinational publisher”. Quality here will vary hugely – YMMV!

Also, interesting to note … these are listed in order of posting to the forums, so … as you go down the list, you’re seeing an evolution over time of personal/indie (and occasionally “big team / AAA”) games on the app store.

TCE games, in first-launched order (earliest first)

  1. http://toucharcade.com/2008/12/12/ivory-tiles-a-unique-iphone-puzzle-game/
  2. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=298060143&mt=8
  3. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=289208006&mt=8
  4. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=303057162&mt=8
  5. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305889055&mt=8&s=143441
  6. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=307740243&mt=8
  7. http://zenbound.com/itunes
  8. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=307117698&mt=8
  9. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311115651&mt=8
  10. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318996099&mt=8&s=143441
  11. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=317781445&mt=8
  12. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321510472&mt=8
  13. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323694495&mt=8
  14. http://bit.ly/ifistchaosengine
  15. http://appshopper.com/utilities/isundial-2
  16. http://bit.ly/qqq_iphone
  17. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=333962577&mt=8
  18. http://itunes.com/app/Coretex
  19. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=334682266&mt=8
  20. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=334683021&mt=8
  21. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=335955369&mt=8
  22. http://tinyurl.com/yc9bpr5
  23. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/revz/id352513901?mt=8
  24. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fm-2010/id352933624?mt=8
  25. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/koan/id366816832?mt=8
  26. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiki-towers/id298127125?mt=8
  27. http://ultrablast.net/
  28. http://bit.ly/aurifi_itunes
  29. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/denki-blocks/id371685186?mt=8
  30. http://bit.ly/yatr_iphone
  31. http://bit.ly/qqq_worldfoot
  32. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/gamebook-adventures-2-the/id375065935?mt=8
  33. http://itunes.apple.com/app/id356565414?mt=8
  34. http://itunes.apple.com/app/reckless-racing/id386234787?mt=8
  35. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tiltstorm/id392545121?mt=8
  36. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/awakening-the-dreamless-castle/id386161821?mt=8
  37. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/gamebook-adventures-1-an-assassin/id352871101?mt=8
  38. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/gamebook-adventures-4-revenant/id395652668?mt=8
  39. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cricket-captain-2010/id406333955?mt=8
  40. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-frogs/id386644958?mt=8&partnerId=30&siteID=0JkCNyaaKoo
  41. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sky-burger/id311972587?mt=8&partnerId=30&siteID=0JkCNyaaKoo
  42. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scoops-ice-cream-fun-for-everyone/id291591378?mt=8&partnerId=30&siteID=0JkCNyaaKoo
  43. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dizzypad-frog-jump-fun/id357104694?mt=8&partnerId=30&siteID=0JkCNyaaKoo
  44. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textropolis/id301643671?mt=8&partnerId=30&siteID=0JkCNyaaKoo
  45. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kamicrazy/id299644692?mt=8
  46. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubble-dreams/id400309976?mt=8&ls=1
  47. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/gamebook-adventures-5-catacombs/id422246290?mt=8
  48. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/family-games/id417601428?mt=8
  49. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/moving-day/id395714931?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
  50. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/to-fu-the-trials-of-chi/id436987555?mt=8
  51. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bashi-blocks/id441051678?mt=8
  52. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/magnetic-billiards-blueprint/id432152950?mt=8
  53. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/specky-mark-of-the-year/id458244379?mt=8
  54. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quarrel-deluxe/id453203047?mt=8
  55. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/death-at-fairing-point-a-dana/id445507820?mt=8
  56. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lap-uranus/id447548601?ls=1&mt=8
  57. http://itunes.apple.com/app/cutesy-the-quest-unicorn/id463920538?mt=8
  58. http://itunes.apple.com/app/funpark-friends/id444438531?mt=8
  59. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/myragdoll-3d/id444210353?mt=8
  60. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/puzzler-world-2/id465620717?mt=8
  61. http://itunes.apple.com/app/shark-jug/id473563382
  62. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/mini-motor-racing/id426860241?mt=8
  63. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/grabatron/id481309065?mt=8
  64. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/leapin-frogs/id487318065?mt=8
  65. http://itunes.com/apps/gravityrocks
  66. http://itunes.apple.com/app/puzzle-bonsai/id491318778?mt=8
  67. http://bit.ly/lighthousegame
  68. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-coin-match/id472717295?mt=8
  69. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/froad/id469021974?mt=8
  70. http://j.mp/EufloriaHD
  71. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/end-night-hd/id498102948?ls=1&mt=8
  72. http://smallgreenhill.com/ballonawall/index.php
  73. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rune-raiders/id497702195?mt=8

Non-chronological

These posters didn’t provide a real iTunes link – I had to hunt it down on their websites – so they’re out of order:

  1. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ax-raven-elite/id331999733?mt=8
  2. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/red-card-rampage/id388957922?mt=8
  3. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordsnap-contraption/id412453514?mt=8&ls=1
  4. http://bit.ly/zSf5vc
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Firefox Auto-restore (after a crash): Impressive stuff

For a couple of years now, Firefox has had a nifty feature where if it crashes – for ANY reason – the next time you run it, it gives you a “menu” of the windows you had open, and lets you selectively re-open them. As a bonus, this menu is just a plain window – you can ignore it (if you’re too busy right now), and open some other windows in parallel.

(even if it’s not Firefox that crashed – e.g. a laptop battery ran out, or someone tripped over your power cable – you still get this window. This is a huge help on OS X, which crashes quite a lot if you’re running Apple’s dev tools :))

I’d wondered a few times “what happens if it crashes again, before you’ve selected which things from that menu you want to re-open?”

I just found out the hard way: actually, it gives you a new menu, where one of the items is … the previous menu. It nests, all the way down (I had a crash-of-a-crash-of-a-crash – and I got everything back perfectly. Very useful, too – one of the deeply nested open windows was an important form I’d forgotten I’d not yet sent).

On the downside, if you close Firefox, and re-open it normally, the menu gets blown away – but that’s probably to do with the “five-years-and-counting still unfixed” bugs in Firefox where “remember open windows on startup” doesn’t work properly (there’s some epic threads in their bug tracker, many complaints, but no fix yet).

Still, for the most part, this is a very nice approach to application-crashing. One to remember when designing your own document-based applications…