1st Edition
Buttonless Incredible iPhone and iPad Games and the Stories Behind Them
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