It’s the season for games — and we haven’t seen any Mac games hitting the market, but there sure is a glut of iPhone games, about two new ones a day. Here are some of our favorites: Pogs to Milkcaps * Goldfin action underwater * KidCalc helps teach math * Monster Bash * Mouse House 2 * Free Version of Soosiz * A Doodle Flight * New millennium solitaire * zooSpelling Helps Early Learners * Furballs * Video Poker: Jacks or Better * FingerDancer … and more to come next week!
Pogs to Milkcaps
Milkcaps brings the classic 90′s games commonly called Pogs to life in a way only possible on the iPhone. Using your phone as the Slammer, tune your technique to win Milkcaps from your opponents.
Collecting every Milkcap is the challenge. Play against the computer or hook up with a friend via Bluetooth to try and take their Milkcaps. Collecting every Milkcap is hard, keeping every Milkcap is even harder!
* Milkcaps 1.0 by Clever Coding
* See screen or video demo
Goldfin action underwater
Goldfin is an addicting fast action underwater adventure. The goal is to help Goldie escape from schools of deadly piranhas and to shock them by hitting eel tails. The player aims to achieve the highest scores in all 3 unique and compelling game modes.
Take control of Goldie, a goldfish filled with enough courage to take on deadly piranhas. Use the custom, speed sensitive touch-pad to steer him into battle. Utilize the eel’s electric shock waves by swimming into their tales, but be careful of the eel heads, as it will stun Goldie for a brief moment.
* Trigital Software Goldfin
* See screen or video demo
KidCalc helps teach math
KidCalc 1.7, an update to his popular animated math flash cards and learning game for iPhone and iPod touch — the only Kwanzaa application available for iPhone and iPod touch.
Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s peerless interface, KidCalc helps teach math to children, ages 3-8 years, using Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa themed graphics, engaging animations and voice-overs by a child.
* Steve Glinberg’s KidCalc 1.7
* See screen or video demo
Mouse House 2
Mouse House 2 is the sequel to the popular puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch. Use your best-laid plans to puzzle your way through 40 new and colorful levels.
All of your favorite traps and critters are back to challenge and entertain in the exciting follow-up to the original hit game. Mouse House features intuitive touch based controls. Touch the screen to make Mouse move a space in that direction, or hold your finger down to keep him moving.
* Plaid World Studios Mouse House 2
* See screen or video demo
Free Version of Soosiz
In Soosiz, the player assumes the role of a hero, running and jumping around different surfaces and obstacles, rescuing his friends, killing monsters and collecting coins.
The game has been inspired by many classic platformers, but the traditional gameplay in Soosiz is spiced up by a changing gravity. Each platform has its own gravity, which allows the player character to run at the bottom of the platforms as well as on top of them.
* Touch Foo Soosiz
* See screen or video demo
A Doodle Flight
A Doodle Flight is a flying war game that combines the simplicity of a doodle app with the fun and challenge of air combat.
It is the first app ever that allows people to draw or import their own flying game piece. To add to the improved, more personal user experience, A Doodle Flight now has an integrated OpenFeint community feature, which lends stronger score keeping and player communication to the app.
* j2sighte A Doodle Flight
* See screen or video demo
New millennium solitaire
Kuyi Mobile took a timeless favorite, added modern twists and produced a best selling iPhone and iPod Touch app that review gamers claim to play for hours at a stretch.
This app is a souped up version of that old classic. Solitaire on steroids, if you will. One of Card Drop’s calls to fame is the fact that players can stop mid-game and return to where they left off at a another time.
* Kuyi Mobile Card Drop
* See screen or video demo
zooSpelling Helps Early Learners
Designed to support early literacy achievement, zooSpelling is an interactive game that teaches preschool and kindergarten-aged children how to read, spell, and pronounce more than 130 high-frequency sight words.
The application has 18 different zoo animals that correspond to the 18 levels of spelling difficulty. Users select the level they want to work on and are challenged to collect and color as many animals as they can by correctly spelling up to 10 new words.
* prekApps zooSpelling Preschool
* See screen or video demo
Furballs
Furballs! is an addictive new game that combines two popular game genres of path-drawing and match three into one package.
Furballs! features original music, sound effects and over 150 levels of ever increasing difficulty. The level selection menu allows you to continue playing where you left off or to load already completed levels.
* Dan Russell-Pinson Furballs!
* See screen or video demo
Video Poker: Jacks or Better
Video Poker is a simulation of video poker machines featured in casinos. It is based on Jacks or Better variant.
Video Poker is a casino card game based on Five-card draw poker first appeared in the mid-70s, and has been popular among casinos throughout the world since.
* Gee Logic Software Video Poker: Jacks or Better
* See screen or video demo
FingerDancer
The goal of the game is to touch colored circles continuously appearing and disappearing on the screen. Different types of circles require touching them differently to score points.
The faster player reacts and more objects touches at the same time, the more points he gets. But be careful! Touching incorrectly or missing three times will end the game.
* Vitaliy Pronkin FingerDancer
* See screen or video demo
