Coint and Plick 2013 - The Sixth Annual ILX Video Game Poll

POCKET PLANES that was gaming to me in 2K12 for better & mostly for worse

these animations are great.

really glad i got off the pocket planes early on when an idevice died. at least with the other time-waster pellet dispensers you can run out of things to do pretty quick. pocket planes quickly ramped up to where you could be managing yr. planes all day nonstop.

my life this term has been Pocket Planes IRL so I appreciated the mappiness of it. I am basically a sucker for games that have real world maps involved essentially in the game play (cf. Plague Inc)

its a game that invites min/maxing but at the same time makes you ask why you're reallly bothering. that article linked is pretty good on the topic, i guess, but more positive about it.

...yeah, i am at a loss at how i spent so much time on Pocket Planes and Tiny Tower. don't really regret it, but i'm kinda glad to be out of the addiction cycle as well

someday i'll get around to playing Analogue just so i can yell at you guys for overrating Digital

i could see myself (regretting) getting lost in pocket planes so i will steer wide of that.

c+p has by far the best production values of any poll, nice work forks and zs

the gifs are really nice

graphics 5/5
story 5/5
sound 4/5 because it doesnt have any

Pinball Arcade was my vote, and I'm surprised I was the only vote. All of the pinball machines in the game are simulations of real machines, using the actual layouts, sounds, and animations.

huh I could have sworn I voted for that

just doublechecked, you didn't.

btw the gifs are, one and all, amazing; lots to look forward to

maybe I thought it was a 2011 game?

This is the poll for old games that were re-released on random platforms in 2012 so there is no room for actual new games.

anybody want to start putting in bets on the top ten?

NO
(jk)

I'm guessing that #3 is the gamification version of the 1040 EZ tax form or something.

great work on the animated gifs so far, looking forward to what gif is chosen for my no1 game that no one will have voted for!
also : really need to get round to playing a Christine Love game - i think i got Analogue in a Steam sale, but do i need to play Digital first?

they're unrelated but digital is significantly better than analogue

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gamification

on the gifs: i'm doing the best i can (still need to animate top 18), but they take a lot of time and i'm really crunching on a bunch of stuff so quality may precipitously decline!

this is where I am sad that wallogina.jpg is gone as that would be an outstanding backup

it's gone?!

btw, nice gams!

yeah it vanished a few years ago ;_;

well actually ^_^

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super monsters ate my condo for ios is free for the moment. folks should grab it.

love the gifs!

the games are kinda lost on me this year though as I don't have any iOS devices and my PC is no longer fast enough to play new games - but still, it's good to see what's been exciting other folks

getting super MAMC for free almost makes up for the tragic discovery that wallogina.jpg is no more

super MAMC is way better than the original so far. Lots more combos, lots more variety.

yeah they basically isolated the core of what made MAMC fun and then threw a gigantic pile of awesome on top of it

I had to vote for the game if only for making the blue monster suddenly really super fucking useful, although they made up for it by adding a boost that completely invalidates the existence of red

like, I've built up ridiculous amounts of points just from padding time by feeding upgraded condos to blue making matches with clocks in them, then switching to a green/yellow combo for megazone, then switching out for blue to pad up time again, rinse/repeat

some ppl are super good at this game though, my best synergistic run ended up with 67 trillion points and there are still 181 ppl with higher scores than me; the top score has some stupid number like 9.2 QUINTILLION points

lol 67 BILLION, I'm not that good (yet)

the free price sucked me in. not a fan of the currency system, but it's still a good game

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#45 (Tie): Resident Evil: Revelations – 3DS – 15 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Quarter to Three

No Vita For You

Now with a Watch

Gamasutra Dev Interview

Shocked to discover there’s sequels in the works

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zappi: Mostly successful attempt to match the gunplay of modern RE to the atmosphere of old RE. Raid Mode a lot of fun too. A port to HD consoles is coming soon.

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#45 (Tie): Skullgirls – PSN – 15 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

Dev Interview

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist

Nightmare Mode

Combo Transcripts

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#45 (Tie): Soulcalibur V – PS3, X360 - 15 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

Game Director Interview

Gay Gamer

Worldwide Finals

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#45 (Tie): Triple Town – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

A Decade of Triple Town

On... Kindle?

Getting Cloned

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WillM: Triple Town is a sickness. It's the one game on my phone that I can pick up and play at almost any time. I've been doing so for about 12 months. It never goes anywhere. About one in five games I get the floating triple castle, which is pretty cool, I guess, but it doesn't even save my high scores anywhere. It's so aimless. So why do I enjoy it so much? I've never really had a match 3 game get in my head like this one did, but I think the magic of it is the empty space. Clearing corridors to put down more grass, finding ways to avoid requiring crystals and high-level (tree, hut, etc) pieces, placing junk blocks until only a few spots remain to kill the 7-10 ninja bears I've amassed and make them into churches... it's satisfying in a way a Bejeweled will never be, because in Bejeweled, all of the "little victories" are abstract. Going up a level or getting a big combo or whatever. In Triple Town, the little victories are concrete -- open space to make more bushes. When you do something right, everything compresses and your canvas gets bigger again.
Now, can we PLEASE stop making match 3 games? I think that's enough now.

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#44: Plague Inc. – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote - 1 top game votes

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

Dev Interview

Sound Design Interview

Dev Podcast

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#41 (Tie): Dungeon Village – iOS – 15 pts – 2 votes

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Top 10 Kairosoft Games We Want in English in 2013

Why Do We Kairo?

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S. Clover: Why am I still up, staring at this tiny screen? I'm not even doing anything, just watching the little heros run around and fight on their own. I can turn it off, and they can fight on their own tomorrow. I'm sure I can turn it off. I've got this.

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#41 (Tie): Infectonator – iOS – 15 pts – 2 votes

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Forksclovetofu: Sometimes when a game grabs you, you don’t know why. It plays off the ol’ time waster principle too well and the hours fall off easy on the train or in bed or in boring moments. It is not a thinking game that wins our time, often it is a grout game, a thing meant to cement the bricks of real life together. This year, for me, it was Infectonator that drew me in again and again, pointlessly, stupidly, addictively.

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#41 (Tie): Rebuild – iOS – 15 pts – 2 votes (+ 15 points / 1 vote for the in-browser version from last year which would boost this to 24, but fuggit)

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://cdn.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/reviews/3412691/Rebuild2.jpg

Quarter to Three

Dev Interview

http://iphoneipadleaks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Rebuild-Ipa-3.0-v3.0-iPhone-iPad-and-iPod-Download-Has-New-Events-and-Endings.jpg

S. Clover: A tense, scary game. I'm afraid to play it at the high difficulty levels.

love the concept of "grout games."

rebuild looks cool, imma get that shit on my kindle

pretty sure Plague Inc was my #1 (can't remember! def voted for it) & I'm shocked I'm the only vote for it! I think you'll all dig it; you get to kill the whole world, which seems in touch with general ILX 'tudes

i killed the world once or twice on easy. there wasn't anything pushing me to ratchet up the skill level too much higher and keep exploring the game.

^ that mostly. I think it (and rebuild) would be on a top 20 ballot but I thought there were 10 games better than both this year

I like games with real world maps (would love an ios port of Shadow President) & the killing dynamic was just a good enough hook for me to keep on going