1st Edition

Buttonless Incredible iPhone and iPad Games and the Stories Behind Them

By Ryan Rigney Copyright 2011
    244 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    244 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    This book presents some of the most interesting iPhone and iPad games, along with stories of the people behind these games. It describes hundreds of titles, including well-known games and hidden games, and provides insight into the development of games for the iOS platform.

    100 Rogues
    Across Age DX
    Angry Birds
    Babylonian Twins Premium
    Battle for Wesnoth
    Blobster
    The Blocks Cometh
    Broken Sword
    Canabalt
    Compression
    Cow Trouble
    Cut the Rope
    Dark Nebula
    Dirt
    Doodle Jump
    Doom II RPG
    Edge
    Enviro-Bear 2010
    EpicWin
    Flight Control
         Forget-Me-Not 
         Frogatto 
         Fruit Ninja 
         Garage Inc. 
         Geared 
         Godville 
         Halcyon 
         Hand of Greed 
         Hard Lines 
         Helsing’s Fire 
         Hook Champ 
         The Incident 
         Infinity Blade 
         Jet Car Stunts 
         Karoshi 
         Labyrinth 2 
         Land-a Panda 
         Minigore 
         Monkey Island 
         Mos Speedrun 
         Nimble Strong 
         No, Human 
         Osmos 
         Pizza Boy 
         Plants vs. Zombies 
         Pocket God 
         Pocket Legends 
         Poto and Cabenga 
         The Raging Dead
         Robosockets 
         Rolando 
         A Short Game About Jumping
         Shot Shot Shoot 
         Silverfish 
         Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure 
         Solipskier 
         Soosiz
    Space Miner 
    Spider 
    Super Stickman Golf 
    Superbrothers 
    Sword of Fargoal 
    Tilt to Live 
    Tiny Tower 
    Toki Tori 
    Words With Friends 
    Zen Bound
    Acknowledgments

    Biography

    Ryan Rigney is a freelance journalist who has covered the video-game industry from every angle for publications and sites including Gamasutra, PC Gamer and GamePro. He lives in Oxford, MS, where he is pursuing an education in journalism at Ole Miss' Meek School of Journalism and New Media. 

    "An in-depth exploration of gaming's fastest growing space penned by one of its most avid and enthusiastic advocates."
    — Will Herring, reviews editor at GamePro Magazine

    "The App Store is so incredibly fluid, the way Buttonless locks the wonderful little stories behind them in typographical amber is nothing short of a public service."
    — Justin McElroy, managing editor at Joystiq.com