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Even More Screenshots from iPhone 2.0
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Casual gaming was big enough to influence simple games like Portal, Peggle and other stupidly addictive games. And games I can play against anyone, not just an "elite" set.
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So, how will all these accelerometer-based games work in outer space?It's only so long before astronauts start carrying iPhones to the space station. We clearly need artificial gravity up there to address this concern.
Quick!! I'll draw the diagrams, you get the materials!!!
I'm 100% confident we can come up with real artificial gravity by watching Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and drawing ambiguous yet arbitrary wiggly arrows pointing downwards toward a line for the blueprints.
Oh and um..... you know, better call Grace Park for help. She knows things.
Nah, I just tend to write things too bluntly. My apologies. Asperger's Syndrome at work.
The real reason being proven quality of titles. Perhaps an extremely casual player might not be able to differentiate, but most people who buy gaming systems do so for the exclusives. Perhaps, in your case, you don't care about the difference between a simple C-grade game and a high-budget AAA title because you're just playing around on your commute- but in the case of the iPhone as a gaming platform, I really, REALLY want to see Apple get some brand-name franchises.
A Final Fantasy game will cement it in Japan, but for the US we'd need...oh, I don't know...Call of Duty? lol.
Huh, missed that. Good to know, thanks!
Hope the game actually comes out this year
Can the good folk at MacRumors change the title of this thread / headline to be...
'Even More Screenshots from iPhone OS 2.0'
My heart raced until I saw the item was actually about the OS 2.0 release, rather than the iPhone 2.0
'Even More Screenshots from iPhone OS 2.0'
My heart raced until I saw the item was actually about the OS 2.0 release, rather than the iPhone 2.0
Casual gamers dumped money in the market to keep smaller devs alive. On the other hand, it is causing a certain degradation of quality as some companies realize they can imitate trends (like Nintendogs, see all the spinoffs like Dogz), release games with horrible quality, and casuals buy them anyway.
While I hate the latter, having a more public acceptance of gaming is worth it. The stereotype of gamers as social shut-ins needs to end.
When I was a kid, Lunar Lander was THE hot game. Mind you, that's when the other big games were Asteroids, Pong, and Tank.
Some people may want to install apps that don't come from the itunes store - free or not.
There may be a cool app that competes with apple for whatever reason. When Apple doesn't make it available from their store jailbreaking may be the only way to get it.
When Apple had its town hall meeting to announce the SDK & v2.0 of the firmware, they showed another space shoot-em game. Anyone know if this'll be available on the app store. If so, what is it called? Looks fun.
i believe it was called "Touch Fighters"
and yea, it looks pretty awsome.
you can watch it here.
I'm I am hoping that this game will not be out with the rest of the cool games in Sep. but hopefully upon the release of the App Store in June
I sort of disagree with you. There has always been crappy subpar games on every platform. The copy cats are annoying and that trend may be new. I suppose the copying trend could likely be caused by the sheer number of "gamers" around now because of the casual crowd.
As far back as I can remember, though, there has always been a "bargain bin".
I'm with you. I've owned a DS Lite for a long time and it's a great little device. It has games for all styles of gaming. The dual screens are creatively used in many types of games. The stylus works quite well, and is one of the things that may be hard to live without on games for the iPhone.
It doesn't matter whose DS is better than whose iPhone. The iPhone has faster graphics, a bigger screen, multi-touch, great free dev tools, and super-easy wireless game shopping. The DS has a far more mature selection of current titles, compared the iPhone at zero (until June).
What matters is that you ALREADY carry a phone--or an iPod--and now you have games too. A PS or DS is a poor game machine when you've left it at home. iPhone gaming will take off for sure, and that doesn't say anything bad about those who have fun on a DS or PSP.
The screenshots are showing three different status-bar themes--white, gray, and black, with only the white one using any color. What themes does iPhone 1.x have? The same three? (I know some apps use a black no-color status bar but I don't recall seeing any gray one.) Or is this something new? EDIT: I've attached the gray one that is new to me. (I don't have an iPhone yet.)
Maybe an always-no-color status bar is a new option? (With both that and the old bar appearing in either black or white/gray as needed?)
And Springboard refers to the home screen.
I too wonder if these are dev-only options or not.
What matters is that you ALREADY carry a phone--or an iPod--and now you have games too. A PS or DS is a poor game machine when you've left it at home. iPhone gaming will take off for sure, and that doesn't say anything bad about those who have fun on a DS or PSP.
The screenshots are showing three different status-bar themes--white, gray, and black, with only the white one using any color. What themes does iPhone 1.x have? The same three? (I know some apps use a black no-color status bar but I don't recall seeing any gray one.) Or is this something new? EDIT: I've attached the gray one that is new to me. (I don't have an iPhone yet.)
Maybe an always-no-color status bar is a new option? (With both that and the old bar appearing in either black or white/gray as needed?)
And Springboard refers to the home screen.
I too wonder if these are dev-only options or not.
