kotaku.com - 3/24/2009
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Three seasoned iPhone developers shared the secrets of their success with other would-be indie developers eying the iPhone as an indie platform. The catch? There are no secrets. Adam Saltsman, creator of Wurdle, and the duo behind Fieldrunners — Sergei Gourski and Jamie Goch — each ...
kotaku.com - 3/24/2009
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kotaku.com —
The iPhone is a slick looking machine. More
and more developers are starting to make iPhone games,...
and the platform could give the PSP and the DS a run for its money. But, according to insiders, the phone itself might be developer friendly, but ...
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Apple Putting The Squeeze On iPhone Developers [Rumor]
offworld.com - 3/31/2009
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offworld.com —
gameboyiphone.jpg Lazy web request time: thatgirlssite doesn't know
where the above iPhone case comes from , but...
it's out there in the wilds of Japan somewhere, and would go so perfectly with Rob Sheridan's iGameboy Springboard theme that we need to ...
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iBoy: the awesome Game Boy iPhone case
joystiq.com - 3/25/2009
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joystiq.com —
The following post was assembled using two documents
( Carmack_iPhone_development.doc and readme_iWolf.txt ) written by John Carmack...
and included in Wolf3D iPhone v1.0 Source . The documents are posted in their exhaustive entirety after the break. ...
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"Quality is Largely Irrelevant For iPhone Games"
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... Word from the GDC is that with iPhone games, how well it does whatever you want it to matters very little.
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Adam Saltsman, creator of Wurdle, and the duo behind Fieldrunners Sergei Gourski and ...
Developer: 'Quality Irrelevant With iPhone Games'
G4 TV - TheFeed —
... those cheapo apps and games that are often rip-offs of other, better titles, are making people rich. Welcome to the downside of "casual gaming," where a crappy idea with inexpert execution can make someone money if it's stupid in just. the. right. way.
On the other hand, creating an application that is simple but useful (like the dog whistle app pictured above) is pretty cool. Using the iPhone to call your dog is definitively a good thing.
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iPhone Developers: “Quality is Irrelevant”
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... From Kotaku: a couple of top iPhone developers discuss their experiences developing for the platform. Their conclusions are interesting (and also touch upon web games and user-created content platforms, such as Metaplace and Whirled). ...
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