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Lights Off: First Native iPhone Game

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Lucas Newman and Adam Betts have released the first native iPhone game called Lights Off.
Lights Off is a fun and highly addictive puzzle game made even better with iPhone’s touch screen, created by Lucas Newman and Adam Betts.

The objective is to switch all of the lights out. Tapping a light toggles it, along with the four adjacent lights. Once you switch all of the lights out, you'll advance to the next level!
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Lights Off took 2nd place in the C4 Iron Coder competition behind the Video Conferencing application for the iPhone.

As a native application, you must download the package and install it using existing "jailbreak" tools to gain access to the iPhone's file system. Installation instructions are provided.

Lights Off was developed completely with Apple's UIKit development framework, the same used to make iPhone's built-in applications such as Maps and YouTube. It leverages the community-built tools that have been developed with the absence of an official iPhone SDK.

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Nintendo should so work with apple with a native gameboy type thing and sell their whole backlog of games on the itunes store for $5 or $10...
 
Because that wouldn't be competitive with Nintendo's own download service...
 
bmb012 said:
Because that wouldn't be competitive with Nintendo's own download service...
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oh. did not even know they had a service like that. Have not played video games for years.

Except for bejewelled on the iphone which I am the king of on Macrumors.com!!!!

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thisonechance said:
I am very impressed with the progress that has been made despite how locked down the iPhone is.
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Well it isn't really locked down that much... just no tools are provided, etc. for it nor is direct file access provided for, etc.
 
This one might actually make "hacking" my iPhone seem attractive. Custom ringtones never really important to me, but a cool game might be.

I wonder if this can be loaded with iFuntastic utility. Worth checking out.
 
This sounds like one of those damned Zelda puzzles where you had to hit the little thingies to make them all the same color.

I hated those. (Link's Awakening DX, I think, was where I saw them...)
 
I really liked the idea of Web Apps and still do like the large number that are available. Then apps like this and many others that require a hack start coming out. Now I just wish that Apple would unlock the iPhone to allow 3rd party apps and make it so much easier for all users to experience these apps. Then iPhone users could have the best of both worlds and the overall iPhone experience would be better.
 
This is so excellent. This is how games should be done for the iPhone, not those cheesy web apps. It's so resposive! I love this game. :)
 
Im having trouble, can someone help me? I have performed jailbreak, i put on the PEM, and i did the generate .plist, but i cant activate iPhone. Can someone tell me why i can't?
 
QuarterSwede said:
I remember playing a handheld version of that called Lights Out with little rubber squares that were red until you pushed one and made it go out. That was a great game but very hard once you got into it.
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Hey I had that game and absolutely loved it. Got pretty good at it too but you're sure right about it getting hard later on. If I had an iPhone i'd get it. It's both fun and addicting.
 
plumbingandtech said:
Nintendo should so work with apple with a native gameboy type thing and sell their whole backlog of games on the itunes store for $5 or $10...
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Doesn't work for a number of reasons.

1) Those games rely on physical buttons. It's much better to make games designed around the touch screen, like Nintendo does for the DS with games like Elite Beat Agents and Brain Age.

2) It would compete with the Wii, which already does exactly what you describe.
 
finally went through the process and installed Lights Off... and have to say it is a very nice application. Really makes you sad that there isn't open iphone development. The process to get to that point of installing apps, however, sucks.

arn
 
I am utterly stumped here. Still stuck at the activation part, cant find IPHUC, and have no idea how to instal SSH. Can someone please help me.
 
Telp said:
I am utterly stumped here. Still stuck at the activation part, cant find IPHUC, and have no idea how to instal SSH. Can someone please help me.
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I gave up right when it said that I had to download xcode, which is pretty much the first step. Xcode is almost a 1Gb download, then you have to configure and compile IPHUC to upload the app to the phone, then install and use ssh to change the permissions . . . it's like linux all over again.

I will wait for somebody to create a nice GUI that will allow you to install apps, I don't have the time or energy to go through the process, though all the apps look nice.
 
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