Lights Off: First Native iPhone Game
Lucas Newman and Adam Betts have released the first native iPhone game called Lights Off.
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.
Video demo of game available here.
Lights Off is a fun and highly addictive puzzle game made even better with iPhones 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!
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.
Video demo of game available here.
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59 months ago
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...
59 months ago
I am very impressed with the progress that has been made despite how locked down the iPhone is.
59 months ago
Because that wouldn't be competitive with Nintendo's own download service...
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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59 months ago
I am very impressed with the progress that has been made despite how locked down the iPhone is.
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.
59 months ago
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.
I wonder if this can be loaded with iFuntastic utility. Worth checking out.
59 months ago
Yet another addition that will simply be blown away come next iPhone update? Naw....I'll pass.
59 months ago
WOW! The progress is amazing. I am so proud of how good these reverse-engineers are.
59 months ago
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 hated those. (Link's Awakening DX, I think, was where I saw them...)
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