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I cant wait to see game center in all its glory in a few months once things are totally rolled out.
 
does anyone else have risk? (the game by EA)
i could see that game getting infinite replay value by being able to play online with other people.
lots of games i think would be greatly enhanced by incorperating game center, but i think only new games are gonna have it. it seems like devs sometimes forget about older apps :(
 
I wonder if the nicks we set up in the sandbox will carry over to the real thing. Developers, and those who've installed downloads provided by developers who would be "terminated with extreme prejudice", if Steve could only figure out who they were, have a leg up on grabbing the cool names.

I tried for my absolute favorite (hint: my hair is gray, tending toward white), and it was already taken. However, probably the next best-known wizard was available, and I jumped on it.
 
The APIs have been public for ages.

There is no standardized UI overlay when you get an achievement. Nor is there a messaging feature.

When you unlock an achievement, either:

a) you wont see or hear anything on screen

b) the game developer will have added their own overlay/sound

As the only option is for developers to bring their own notification, that means that you're going to get so many different implementations. If Apple were to implement their own pop-up, that would be over any sound/pop-up provided by a developer - that would be such a mess.

In short, these features aren't implemented now and it's going to be difficult for Apple to implement them later.

Do you know Josie Gibson?
 
If Game Center needs to be updated it won't take a FW update, it can be done OTA. How else would the iTunes store have been updated with Ping and the App Store updated with Genius?
 
Firemint has announced Game Center support for Flight Control and Real Racing, Achievements for Flight Control include landing aircraft on each airfield and landing a total of 20 jets in a single game. Real Racing will reward players for completing a race with no assists and attaining a clean sweep in a championship. It was stated that free updates to both titles will be available soon after the launch of Game Center.
 
Thanks whoever it was that added me in the middle of the night (UK time)!. My phone (which was on my bedside table) kicked off with the trumpet sound and nearly gave the other half a heart attack LOL :D
 
hang on, the thing hasn't officially started yet! that's next week, if you notice, in the app it says sandbox, so it's still in testing mode. so how can they be lacking on execution when it's not even up and running properly yet??? :confused:

Ok,fair enough, its not official. then why have it part of iOS and advertise as a feature of iOS 4? That in of itself points to a poorly handled roll-out/execution.

If its not live why not include it in the 4.1 update and then have lots of games use it. Like I said the idea is good but the execution is quite un-apple like in this case.
 
Ok,fair enough, its not official. then why have it part of iOS and advertise as a feature of iOS 4? That in of itself points to a poorly handled roll-out/execution.

yes it was in the iOS4 launch earlier in the year, but they clearly said it was going to be released in the fall, they just wanted to tease it back then that's all

If its not live why not include it in the 4.1 update and then have lots of games use it. Like I said the idea is good but the execution is quite un-apple like in this case.

dunno what you're going on about here, it is in the 4.1 update coming next week as stated at the Media event a couple of days ago and there are games that will get updates to run on it with more games coming, like project sword, as per the media event. As i posted earlier, firemint announced 2 of their games will use game center, we know angry birds will, until next week when it is launched and games start releasing updates to use it, we simply do not know how many games are going to use it. When i said it is not live at the moment, i mean in regards to it being on the GM, that's all.
 
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