Indie developer Schiau Studios has raised the price of its Alchemize iPhone game to $39.99 (£23.99 in the UK) after receiving complaints about its original $2.99 price point being too high.
Apple has apparently made a slight change in new models of the iPhone 3GS that makes the handset resist attempts to jailbreak it. Jailbreaking changes an iPhone’s software to let it use applications not cleared for distribution in the App Store. Apple is also fighting jailbreakers in court. It’s unclear, though, how effective the 3GS’ new boot ROM will be in repelling jailbreakers.
Here are some details on our latest version of PwnageTool for Mac OS X that adds support for the 3.1 release of the iPhone software for iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G.
Calling all iPhone users: there’s a resounding future in building iPhone applications -apps in iPhan lingo. So says Apple itself, which sponsors app development conference, provides tools and sells the finished, approved app through its store.
Why should learning to write your ABC’s be boring? Unsatisfied with existing iPhone letter writing apps for kids, we decided to make our own. Swim through the undersea ocean to choose a letter, and then practice writing the letter using guided strokes against a backdrop unique to each letter. Watch an eerie nautilus float by as you draw a “N”, or watch a volcanic undersea vent erupt as you draw a “V”.
Quote from the developer:
Just wanted to let you know that thanks to some of your tutorials, especially on the sound engine stuff, we’ve been able to launch a game to the App Store.
Nearly two weeks after taking the wraps off iTunes 9, Apple has an update for its music jukebox application. Released Tuesday, iTunes 9.0.1 fixes a number of issues—the most obvious of which is a quick reversal of decision on the functionality of the green “maximize” button.
Day two of the Game Developers Conference in Austin, TX began with a talk by husband and wife duo Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova of Imangi Studios. Keith began the talk detailing the history of Imangi and how they approach making iPhone games.
With thousands upon thousands of iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, developers today are finding it considerably more difficult to get their games to stand out from the crowd, even when compared to just one year ago.
If you have a tutorial for the iPhone you would like to share with our community, let either Mike or myself know and we can make you into a contributor on the blog where you can post and we can publish it for you.
If enough people are interested we could list your names on the sidebar which would list all your posts.
Let us know your thoughts.
It appears that the download links that Vimeo provide, expire after a certain amount of time. So I have had to pull all the download links until I can get all the videos onto Amazon S3.
Once I get them all uploaded I will put the links to download again.
Thanks.
Learning iOS Game Programming
by Michael Daley
