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[inlovewithwords]

Your character has a smartphone. If they did not have a smartphone before, they do now. Congrats! What phone app(s) or game(s) do they while away the time with, whether openly or in furtive guilt?

Alternately: Got any good phone game recs you'd like to share with the class?

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[aberration]

The only phone game I've played with any consistency is TinyTower.

Finding out there was a TinyTower Death Star game but Disney pulled it like four years ago so now I'll never get to play it was definitely a bummer.

[iprotectyou]

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Heck, yeah.

[misslucyjane]

+1. It's so relaxing.

[runningred]

Jay has a very clever smart, smart phone. It has lots of rather interesting apps that do interesting things that the owners of certain computer systems wish they didn't do.

Sinric doesn't own a smartphone but he does have a clever little music recorder and player that he hides on his person. He's made some rather lovely recording for Sherlock smuggling it between his palms.

Bodhi has a datapad full of recipes and research about Earth foods. He'd have games for the cats if he knew about them.

As for me, I have a puzzle app called Infinity Loop: HEX. It's a nice relaxing game but it chews battery like nothing else.

[cook_the_rude]

Hannibal thinks electronics are far too hackable to trust them with his recipe / business card cross reference system; he keeps those things neatly on paper and cross-refences them in his mind. But if he could be sure of the IT Security, he'd love e an app for that.

As for me, I play "Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep". It's an odd little game of skill with very soothing background music.

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko will be putting every imaginable iteration of Candy Crush on Hannibal's phone fyi. >>

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Sahaal's only got an iPod from Bar that he mostly uses for music, but I could definitely see him playing something like PlagueInc or Doodle Army. The first one because it's causing massive destruction and he's just all about that, and the second because it's very, very fun. And quite addictive, in my experience.

[quick_clean_pure]

Graverobber would be that guy that pretends he isn't addicted to app games but is completely addicted to app games. Particularly stuff like Candy Crush.

Personal app rec: most of the Choice of Games games, which are a couple bucks apiece but are a really nice wide variety of text RPGs.

[have_no_mercy]

I myself am very unfamiliar with apps and games, so I'm not sure for most of mine. Rose would probably be playing some kind of fashion game and Candy Crush and the like.

[bjornwilde]

Sabine has art apps, strategy games, and puzzles on her phone.

Ahsoka has things like Candy Crush that kill time and can be dropped at a moments notice.

Sam seems like he'd do Pokemon Go and Animal Crossing.

Hank has things like Slither and Plague. He'd likely have anything that required building as well.

Tybalt does not do phones. If he needs to contact someone, he'll use the Shadow Roads to teleport or have Raj call them. (If forced to give an answer, he'd likely play games like Zen Koi and would be so mortified if Toby ever found out.)

Scrapper plays games like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. This is mostly for laughs.

As for me, I still play Avengers Academy (though it annoys me so), Pokemon Go, Zootopia (a hidden objects game), and Cross stitch.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

I personally like Zen Koi, Monument Valley, and Pokemon Go. I might also recommend Don't Starve Pocket Edition but that's mostly just because I'm really into Don't Starve and would play it on a dishwasher if that was what presented itself, I don't know if it works well as a mobile game if you haven't played it on any other platforms. All of them except Pokemon Go cost money, but only a few dollars. Well, Zen Koi is technically free, but purchasing something from the in-game store makes the advertisements go away and they're a really irritating interruption to the chilled-out fish-breeding experience.

Bastion might actually appreciate a smartphone if they had somewhere to keep it while walking around. They could text message people with it. Using it one-handed could get difficult, but I think Zen Koi and Monument Valley would still work, and they'd probably enjoy those. Pokemon Go might require them to tape the phone to their gun arm in order to actually catch anything, but I think they'd at least like the idea. (They would be Team Instinct.) Don't Starve Pocket Edition would probably not work out; they'd be puzzled as to the appeal, and the controls are definitely intended for two-handed play.

[bjornwilde]

Monument Valley is *SO* good. I need to get the sequel.

[i_am_your_host]

Ahh, there's a Monument Valley 2?? I need it!

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Yeah! It updated recently and I was like ":O??" but the update was mainly just a button to the sequel's Google Play page.

[mogget_cat]

Yrael: Music, mostly, but Fruit Ninja when nobody's watching.


Sunshine: So long as her mother didn't have her number and SOF wasn't monitoring her usage, Rae would be generally okay with having a smartphone. She's not big on computer/screen games, so I'm not sure what she'd play. Those work-in-restaurants-and-fill-orders games would just be too close to real life stress to be appealing to her. She would be all over using the built-in calculator for ingredient amount conversion, a gps navigation app like Waze to avoid traffic, the phone camera, and maybe in the future a language-learning app.


I've really enjoyed playing Aquaducts (a rather peaceful puzzle game where you create a pathway for water to flow along to irrigate the land), Hocus (stress-relieving puzzle game using M.C. Escher-like impossible objects), and Viridi (a succulents-growing sim, also very peaceful).

[bjornwilde]

Tybalt is totally not watching this gif and thinking there may be something to these phones after all.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

I forgot about Fruit Ninja. I had a knockoff of it on my old phone to waste time with on the train. (It was called Fruit Slice and included tomatoes for some reason.)

[misslucyjane]

Sherlock mostly uses the text app and the camera for work. He will occasionally play games like Candy Crush or an endless runner; from what I know of Zombies Run he would probably love it, but I've yet to play it myself so I can't say for sure yet.

Steve uses his phone as a phone. As seen in canon, he takes notes in a notebook. *pets the old man fondly* If he were to play games (and I have a hard time seeing him playing games on his phone, really) it would be standard stuff like solitaire and chess. Trivia would just be frustrating--it's all pop culture he doesn't know.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee would have Instagram and Twitter and Snapchat and would be on Tinder and Grindr and--

Ahem.

[runningred]

At least Emcee's always know when Jay enters the bar with Grindr :)

[electro_kinetic]

Nori has a smartphone, and has instagram, messenger apps, email and probably several puzzle-solving games, like Cut The Rope or the like, to take up time when she's bored. She also has her medical information easily accessible on it, for Reasons (in case she gets the crap beat out of her and ends up in a hospital).

[childofrebellion]

In terms of my pups, I know Quentin's phone is probably full of things. I could see him being amused by Neko Atsume and he and Raj having long conversations about cats and Cait Sidhe.

Sugar Smash, a match three with Book of Life pretties is my main favorite. I've actually beaten all the current levels. Recently I got rid of an Angry Birds as it wasn't as much fun.

I have the NYTimes' crossword app and love them though don't have the full subscription anymore.

Instagram isn't a full on time waster for me as I love photography and its one of my creative outlets but it can be a time suck same with Twitter.

I'm considering one of the Star Wars' apps but I don't know which one.

Oh and my biggest one is Pokemon Go.

Actually I could see Cassian having something like crosswords on his datapad as he likes puzzles though I think he'd more likely spend his time in analysis or mechanical work. Though a puzzle thing that feels like its helping with work could be something that he'd like. Maybe a 3-D puzzle thing.