Oh my! More than two months without posting! Let’s get to it, bullet-point style!
- I’m not dead yet.
- I am working on a new comic, ETA TBA.
- I do feel bad for not updating but I figured out I’d better update when I have something worth showing or, as is the case now, when I have something worth telling you.
Mackenzie Daughter (originally posted on 2011-02-04)
What I wanted to share with you now is (almost) totally unrelated to anything on this site. You see, one of my favourite Nintendo DS games has just been ported to iOS. Touch Detective is available now in Apple’s app store, and I want to link this game for various reasons; it’s a good game and it deserves the exposure, it’s a game that I think you might enjoy, and finally I hope the game does well enough to warrant the porting of the sequel and (dare I dream?) the creation of further chapters of the saga.
As for why I recommend this game to you, dear readers: it has an offbeat sense of humour and it features a bizarre world that you get to explore as you try to unravel the mysteries you are presented with. And although most of it is just wacky funny stuff (and there’s plenty of that), it also manages to pull at the heartstrings on occasion. In other words: if you enjoyed Imaginary Daughter, there is a rather good chance you will like Touch Detective as well.
Also the first chapter is free so just go ahead and give it a shot.
Disclaimer: I get 10% of sales made through that link. Haha, no, I wish. I’m just a fanboy hoping to convert others into fanboyism as well 
New comic has an estimated time of arrival to be announced.
Having a look at Touch Detective, I almost feel like getting it if I actually had a DS or iOS device. But I don’t.
Of course, I doubt I would have looked twice or tried it without a recommendation, assuming I did have a compatible device.
Ah, yes, the eternal incompatibility problem. Here’s hoping more developers start porting their software around.
As for the new comic, stay tuned for an announcement. Not too soon, though. Still working out the kinks of the story
OK, recently I managed to install and play Touch Detective on a friend’s iPad.
I can say, that if I did own a compatible device, I’d definitely purchase the game.
I knew it was going to be good as soon as she got distracted playing with the tassels (or whatever they are called) on the carpet when meant to be getting the item hidden under it in the tutorial (at least I think it was the tutorial)
Although I did find her announcement of “I better write this down.” after telling you that she was adding whatever it was to the touch directory thing a little annoying (and slightly redundant), but that was the only thing I didn’t like. It is deserving of recommendation.
And, still looking forward to your next comic.
The “I better write this down” line means she has written in to her Touch List. She’s a Touch Detective, see… well, it ends up making sense in the story. But basically there are a couple of extra activities to do while you are solving the cases. In particular, there is a list of things/places she has to find. That’s just telling you you’ve found one of them
It only happens a few times during the course of the adventure though, so it shouldn’t be too annoying.
Admittedly, that worked somewhat better on the DS where Mackenzie’s comments appeared in the second screen and could be safely ignored, rather than having to tap through them. On the other hand, now you can’t ignore these comments, and I always felt a lot of the flavour of the adventure was in following Mackenzie’s inner monologue. So even with this small downside I think the iOS version is better, not to mention they added all the extra Funghi missions…
As for the next comic, hold on tight. I know I always say this, but I’m really getting close to releasing it