Grimrock

The Quest looks pretty cool! I'm interested, but I don't have an i-thing

A recommendation from Brodie301 is good enough for me. Will download "The Quest" soon to see me through until Baldur's Gate comes out in the next week or two, and then LoG one day :p.

It's a great game. Some of the story line is cheesy later on, stopped playing at Archo but its great none the less. Think LoG meets TES 8bit

i have an ipad retina, i have also The quest and also Undercroft for iphone, but a Grimrock version will be more and more great.
i was really waiting for this, even if i completed the game, i will buy it again for ipad and replay it from the start.

this is a great news, i am gonna share this on my blog.

JohnWordsworth wrote:Ok, you're lured me in for one more post!

1. Apologies, I wasn't clear. You're right, deleting an app deletes the save data if it's not iCloud. By 'good saving strategy', I meant iCloud games (which quite a few of my modern ones are), or putting game saves in the Documents directory for easy backup from iTunes.

2. However, I backup game data to PC/OSX from ANY game using iFunBox. No jailbreak required. Simply drag/drop game saves to/from device. You can also get a peak inside the .app files too if you fancy a look at the GFX for some games!

I don't know iFunBox, there wasn't anything like that, I have the first ipad and used it for games during about one year then gave up because bored by storage problems. I have plenty games, it's thousands (more than 2000) and even if there's ton of crap there's also plenty I could want play or even replay a bit. The 64Gb is ridiculous and iFunBox or not I won't buy an new ipad until that changes. But thanks for the tips about iFunBox I could try removes the dust on my ipad.

JohnWordsworth wrote: 3. It's very hard to find sales figures for iPad only games, so consider. Infinity Blade has 220,000 US reviews, and ~4 million players (1 US review per 19 players). Assume (conservatively) 10 players per US review. Real Racing 2 HD has 14,000 reviews ~= 140,000 players. PGA Tour 2012 (iPad Edition) has 34,000 reviews ~= 340,000 players. Galaxy on Fire 2 HD 5,100 reviews ~= 51,000 players. My estimates are intentionally low, but I doubt Almost Human would be too upset if they get 51,000 sales at £4-5 a shot. Not saying it's guaranteed money - but I'm also saying that there are a lot of cases where people have clearly made money out of iPad games!

It's purely theoretical, reviewer demographic is quite clearly different than players demographic, ios players base is largely dominated by young kids, you just need check forums to get a clear clue about that. And that type of demographic can hardly be a reviewer. Huge sales aren't coming from sells to Hardcore and reviewers for ios games are quite clearly linked to Hardcore.

There's numerous examples of big sells for iphone only games, I don't know a single one for an ipad only game. There's a solid Hardcore base for RPG on ios but it's hard to figure the picture, Undercroft which is in my opinion the only RPG really worth a try never got significant sells, despite it has some fame. The original deve even gave up and resell it probably for close to free to another dev so this new dev could maintain the game through ios evolutions.

I mean that despite there's a solid RPG hardcore players base, their tastes are quite different and there's no evidence LoG would get significant sales through ipad only release. LoG has a plus it's graphics, but perhaps not enough diversity of them to please to this players base. I don't want push LoG to iphone I can't play on such small devices myself, but I doubt it can reach same demographic than Infinity Blade did (myself I don't like this game) and more Hardcore RPG base is more linked to iphone. But yeah I also don't have clear numbers.