another casual gamer freak… this list sucks

You forgot Soccer Says!! Very simple and addictive. I’m waiting the update.

First Native game on Android, Raging Thunder, seems we are getting the first iPhone content in :)
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-polarbit-ragingthunder-xExt.aspx

oh, noooo, where is my darling BUKA?

Hey Taylor, this top ten list is fantastic. Ice Hockey is probably the best game for under $2, it has so much replay value. I will have to check out some of the other games in your list, I found the reviews very helpful. You can post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and link back to your site. We are trying to create a directory for top ten lists where people can find your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.

Abduction! World Attack is awesome. I bought it for much more selfish reasons… I just really liked the demo and wanted to play more :).

About the Market limitations, there is a bug report here:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2558

You can “star” it… though I’m not even sure that will change anything… Apparently Google never made any comment about the current state of the Market, and so we don’t even know if they are actually planning on improving it!

I think it would be cool if on these posts you also highlighted the most-recent, high-quality game on the market, whether it’s free or not. I’d like to nominate ‘Robo Defense FREE’ as this is one of the highest-quality games I’ve seen on the Market so far, it has no bugs that I’ve encountered, and a very very high replayablity factor. It’s like Cestos for tower defense games; it’s really setting the bar high I think.

I have bought a few games/apps myself to support the devs as well when the quality is there to justify it which so far I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the amount of updating that goes on from them. I’ve only had a couple that I’ve bought that ended up being defunct due to lack of updates. Barcode Beasties was promising and even though it was free it was updated a lot until suddenly v0.9 came out and nothing has happened since. I thought that was a fantastic little game for as simple as it was.

As a publisher myself I completely agree with the limits of the market and how it hurts us. Trying to fit a good description in 350 is damn hard. I usually end up just doing short points which really doesn’t help explain a lot but it at least gets the idea across. I just redirect everyone to my site where there are better descriptions and screenshots. A nice happy median would be like 500 words and a small thumbnail that people going through the market could press and would enlarge to a bigger one so they could see the app without having to go to a devs website.

This would be ideal for not just games but all apps on the market.

Yes, I have found myself buying more and more apps just to support the devs. I’m amazed at the progress of Abduction over the last month.