Apple, game companies getting ready for iPhone games
by at March 12, 2008 6:18 am
Sections: Apple Business, Apple News, Apple Online and Retail Store, Games, iPhone OS, SDK and hacks, Mac Software, Software Development, Steve Jobs
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Apple has finally decided to release an iPhone software development kit (SDK), allowing companies to create applications for the phone. The beta version of the SDK is already in developer’s hands and the full version is expected to be released June 2008.
After Apple made the SDK’s announcement at a press conference last week (March 6, 2008), Apple’s VP for iPhone Software, Scott Forstall, demonstrated a space game (Touch Fighter) developed in only two weeks (“and only 10,000 lines of code”), promising touch controls and tilt-sensitive steering.
Perhaps an effort to help the expensive hardware more attractive to a larger audience, game companies have already been…
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