![]() ![]() Oh, and here’s another category that took me a while to figure out. As I said, it was a really tough one to call. Others that you may want to seriously consider include Blazing Star, Metal Slug 3, Caverns of Minos, Super Ox wars and the really rather excellent Raiden Legacy. More of a remake than a pure iOS original, and showing some remarkable restraint from Jeff Minter (not a lot of mooing animals or Manic Miner graphics), Gridrunner is everything that’s good about playing a hectic shooter on a touch screen. This was such a hard one to call Jeff Minter could have ended up with both awards but I flipped a coin – ok, I didn’t, but it was that close – and this is what happened: Best Shoot-em-up Game This next category is packed with great games, but only two get awards I’m afraid… It’s time for Best Shoot-em-up Game. So this award is unsurprisingly… Best Tower Defence GameĪlthough Kingdom Rush (runner up) is a great example of TD, I remember enjoying iBomber Pacific Defense just a tiny bit more because of the WW2 theme, weapons and memorable maps. Here’s another popular genre: Tower Defence. Just a huge shame it has never been on the UK app store. I loved this game, as did my son, who was 4 at the time we were playing this. Runner Up: SpongeBob’s Super Bouncy Fun Time This game was just so much fun and incredibly addictive, even for an old fossil like me with no previous exposure to Skylanders. Your opinion of what constitutes a casual game may be different from mine, but I am fairly sure these two fit into the category. Not because I’m a brilliant player (although I am, of course) but because hardly anyone else has ever played this great game. I haven’t checked recently, but I’m probably still #1 on the leaderboard. Best Arcade / High Score GameĪrcadelife review quote: “Toxic Frog goes beyond just being a great iOS arcade style high-scoring game by totally recapturing the feel of playing an early 80s arcade game.” The games have to be arcade style with either lives/health or a pure scoring objective and no silly star ratings or infinite lives. If you don’t want to read all the other categories, the GOTY award is the last one.įirst up, a category I like to call Best Arcade / High Score Game. Essentially, this does not include pure shooters because they have their own category. I’m also not dividing up iPhone and iPad games but I might mention if a game is not universal. I’ll just be doing Winner and one runner up in each group, unless I feel like mentioning more games in any category, but that’s up to me. ![]() I’ll tell you now, there are some inconsistencies! That’s a little bit of a disclaimer, in case anyone can be bothered comparing the games that win awards here with their original review scores. SteamAPI_Init() failed unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.dll.įirst problem is a shell error, second is a linking 'problem' (its looking in CWD for the library, a natural assumption), and the third one is because Steam hasn’t preloaded the needed library.Welcome to the 2012 awards, in which I look back through all the Arcadelife reviews for 2012 and realise that sometimes, ok quite a lot of the time, the scores I have initially awarded have been a bit wacky. SteamAPI_Init() failed Sys_LoadModule failed to load: /home/john/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so home/john/Steam/SteamApps/common/ibomber defense pacific/iBomberDefensePacific: error while loading shared libraries: libsteam_api.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or ~ > cd ~/Steam/SteamApps/common/ibomber\ defense\ ~/Steam/SteamApps/common/ibomber defense pacific >. home/john/Steam/SteamApps/common/ibomber defense pacific/iBomberDefensePacific: 1: /home/john/Steam/SteamApps/common/ibomber defense pacific/iBomberDefensePacific: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ~ > ~/Steam/SteamApps/common/ibomber\ defense\ pacific/iBomberDefensePacific ~ > sh /home/$USER/Steam/SteamApps/common/ibomber\ defense\ pacific/iBomberDefensePacific
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