[casual_games] Games on the iPod

[Hal Barwood]

I guess it's tough, but I know of at least one case where a game has 
been developed successfully for iPod without any participation by Apple 
whatsoever.  Clever programmers cannot be stopped.  Whether it will be 
published or not depends on marketing and, um, yes, that can be stopped.

James Gwertzman wrote:
> I hope apple makes iPod development easier now that this project is no longer secret, but i can tell you that developing the first batch of games was very difficult. We had to develop against an emulator, them apple had another company create the actual iPod build. Fixing bugs involved huddling in a secure room at apple itself. 
> 
> I do not know of any plans to open development up widely, at least not any time soon. I expect apple will wait to see how these games do first. Certainly their current process and team will not scale. 
> 
> am afraid it is not that easy. The development for the first 
> 
> James Gwertzman
> sent from my phone 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Eric Guenterberg" <mavpion at gmail.com>
> To: "IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List" <casual_games at igda.org>
> Sent: 9/12/2006 3:43 PM
> Subject: Re: RE: [casual_games] Games on the iPod
> 
> Does anyone know where to get a development kit for the iPod? I was
> looking on developer.apple.com and couldn't find anything... Also,
> anyone know how to get on their portal?
> 
> --Eric Guenterberg
> 
> On 9/12/06, Ben Lewis <BLewis at yatecgames.com> wrote:
>> Finally! Although Apple is about to really drop the game bomb on the sixth
>> generation of iPods with touch screens and Nvidia support.
>>
>> This first wave of casual games is cool. iTunes could very well become a
>> BigFish overnight with this model -- it's really just down to
>> implementation. Solitaire works amazingly well on iPods, so I don't see why
>> Mahjong wouldn't. Might try it out when I get home tonight.
>>
>>
>> Ben Lewis
>> Yatec Games
>> Marketing and Sales
>> (225)274-1550
>> www.yatecgames.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron [mailto:lists at rzweb.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 3:10 PM
>> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
>> Subject: [casual_games] Games on the iPod
>>
>> What do people think of Apple's announcement of selling casual games on
>> the iPod?
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/games.html
>>
>> $4.99, no play-before-you-pay.
>>
>> I've always like this model much better than $19 and a 1-hour demo.  I
>> feel this is like putting a kid in a candy store with 1000 different
>> kinds of candy and telling him that he can only sample one of each kind,
>> then he needs to pay.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
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