Platformer Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Disney's Mittens, Dream Chaser and more now available

by Mike Schramm (Apr 4th, 2013)

Today saw a number of big releases on the App Store worth trying out. Here's a quick roundup of some of the biggest new app releases. Disney has released a game called Mittens, which looks impressive. It was put together by a company called Metrogames, so it's not a fully internal product. ...

Everplay Interactive plans a solid lineup this year

by Mike Schramm (Apr 2nd, 2013)

Developer Kris Jones started out his iOS game design career at a company called Thunder Game Works, which made a popular early App Store game called Trenches before the company connected up with EA as a publisher. These days, Jones runs his own studio of twelve people called Everplay ...

Daily iPhone App: Cling is a platformer that will grab you

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2013)

Platformers are a tough genre to pull off on a touchscreen. There are a few solid core platformers out there for iOS (Mikey Shorts is probably my favorite), but in general, the lack of tactile buttons and relative shortage of screen space make really precise, strong 2D platforming games hard to ...

Daily iPhone App: Relic Rush is a one-touch beauty

by Mike Schramm (Mar 5th, 2013)

Man, if there's one thing Apple's iOS platform is good at, it's this: A really great, simple idea made beautiful. That's exactly what Relic Rush is, and that's why I bring it to you highly recommended as a US$0.99 purchase. Relic Rush is a one-touch game in which your tap on the iPhone or ...

Daily iPhone App: Food Run wants you to play with your food

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2013)

If the name Food Run sounds familiar, you've got a good memory. We featured it about a year ago (via the developer's blog post) as a gorgeous example of Retina display graphics. Now, a year later, the game is available from Pixels on Toast, and you can see those gigantic graphics in ...

Daily iPhone App: Wave Trip flies through a musical world

by Mike Schramm (Jan 23rd, 2013)

Wave Trip is the newest title from developer Lucky Frame, probably best known for the underrated rhythm-meets-tower defense game Bad Hotel. In the same way that Bad Hotel is a tower defense game, Wave Trip is sort of a Jetpack Joyride-style platformer, in that you're navigating around the ...

Daily iPhone App: Tobe & Friends Hookshot Escape catches sweet air

by Mike Schramm (Mar 5th, 2012)

I've already suggested that you buy Tobe & Friends: Hookshot Escape in passing, and after playing with it for a few days, my advice hasn't changed. It's a remarkably cute and well-made game, with some interesting ideas about platforming, incredible music and graphics, and a lot of retro ...

Daily iPad App: Paper Monsters

by Mike Schramm (Jan 31st, 2012)

I've found that iOS isn't the best platform (so to speak) for platformers. I love games like Mario and Sonic, where you drive a little character around, jumping between platforms and collecting goodies. The lack of physical buttons on Apple's touch screens (and let's face it: cheaper production ...

Daily iPad App: Run Roo Run HD

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

5th Cell is the developer behind the very popular Scribblenauts (which was released on iOS to great acclaim last year, and just had a new level pack update), and it recently brought a new title to the App Store called Run Roo Run. 2D platforming is a genre that's almost as old as videogames ...

Daily iPad App: Super Crate Box

by Mike Schramm (Jan 6th, 2012)

Super Crate Box appeared on iOS today (even though it's already packed with players), and I'm willing to say that it's the first great game of 2012. Especially on the iPad, where the virtual controls are a little bigger and the graphics are a little easier to see, this is a really slick and ...

Daily iPhone App: Inertia: Escape Velocity HD

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2011)

Inertia is a really amazing platformer for the iPhone that uses a mechanic I haven't seen in any game in recent memory. It's a platformer, so you control a little spaceman that can walk left and right and jump from platform to platform. But Intertia adds another button that essentially will ...

Trine 2 will be available for Mac on Dec. 7

by Mike Schramm (Dec 6th, 2011)

Puzzle-based action/platformer Trine 2 is coming out this week, and developer Frozenbyte has announced that the Mac version will drop alongside the Windows version on Steam. If you want to get a copy outside of the Steam system, you'll have to wait until sometime next year, but even with the ...

Daily iPhone App: GoatUp

by Mike Schramm (Sep 22nd, 2011)

GoatUp is a surreal game made by Jeff Minter, the game developer behind Xbox Live's Space Giraffe and a number of other colorful (and often abstract) retro games over the years. GoatUp has you, as a goat, jumping up a series of platforms while eating grass and collecting various items. The ...

Daily iPhone App: Roboto

by Mike Schramm (Aug 19th, 2011)

Roboto is a solid platformer for iOS that features you controlling a little robot around a series of levels, 30 in all. Gameplay is pretty strictly action/exploration based, very much in the vein of Super Mario Bros., though the robot has a few extra movies that Mario didn't have. Specifically, ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Continuity 2

by Mike Schramm (Aug 2nd, 2011)

Continuity 2 is another fun puzzle/platformer that the iPhone has inherited from Flash -- the original title also had you sliding various parts of puzzles around in order to get a little stick figure from one side of the level to the other. But Continuity 2 ups the ante, introducing new ...