Platformer Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

GDC Online 2010: Moon'd hands-on

by Mike Schramm (Oct 10th, 2010)

On the last day of GDC this week, I heard from developer Anthony LaMantia, who had a new game named Moon'd that he wanted to show me. We met up in the lobby of the Austin Convention Center, and I got to play around for a bit with his game, a platformer with a strange twist. Instead of playing as a ...

TUAW's Daily App: Pix'n Love Rush

by Mike Schramm (Jun 29th, 2010)

I first heard about Pix'n Love Rush about a month ago from my colleague, JC.Fletcher, who described it as "a short, nervous, ristretto version of a platformer ... a sort of crossover between Mario and WarioWare, with a pinch of Galaxian and a hint of Game & Watch." And now that it's out on the ...

TUAW's Daily App: Pinch

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2010)

Pinch is an ingenious little game that I'd almost call a puzzle platformer, except that there aren't any actual platforms in it. Instead of navigating a jumping avatar through a series of gates and switches, you navigate little colored orbs, called Norbs, by dragging them around on the ...

Mirror's Edge coming to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2009)

EA has announced that they're bringing Mirror's Edge, the inventive "first-person jumper" title that intrigued gamers last year, to the iPhone and iPod touch via the App Store. I was disappointed to see that it's not actually just a straight port (it would be interesting to see how the ...

TUAW at E3: Castle of Magic hands-on

by Mike Schramm (Jun 8th, 2009)

Gameloft was kind enough to show us their whole upcoming stable of iPhone and iPod touch titles at E3 last week, and the most impressive game we saw in their "party bus," parked outside the Los Angeles Convention Center, was Castle of Magic. It's a 2D platformer with colorful and great-looking 3D ...

Toy Bot Diaries drops to 99 cents, is giving away $10,000

by Mike Schramm (Mar 4th, 2009)

Toy Bot Diaries is a fun little series of platforming games with a physics twist -- you probably saw it on those early iPod touch gaming commercials. It features a little robot jumping around levels with a grappling hook and some magnetic boots. If you haven't picked it up yet, now's the time to do ...

TUAW goes hands-on with Rolando

by Mike Schramm (Dec 18th, 2008)

It's no secret that we've been looking forward to Rolando probably more than any other game on the App Store, and now that it's here, we can safely say it doesn't disappoint. From the beginning, Rolando has shown tons of potential as a completely original game that shows off just why mobile game ...

Gish goes universal

by Mike Schramm (Dec 31st, 2007)

Gish isn't a Mac-only experience, but as a platform game, it's a pretty good one. I played it way back when it was released on Windows, but Inside Mac Games reports that Chronic Logic has released a universal binary of Gish, so now you can play it on Intel or PowerPC Macs alike. Like I said, I ...