RobB, you seriously need to write a text adventure game for the phone. Man, talk about distracted driving. Start simple, maybe three puzzles and see how it goes over. Maybe a whole new way to deliver the art of writing back to the masses.

I only assume that these games are freely available to all who want them, without hacking or unlocking or anything high on the learning curve.

Anyway, it's just an idea.


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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Christ, maybe I ought to move Creeping Maw from a possibly-made Vectrex game to an iPhone one.

I still believe.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: OH MOTHERFUCKERS

Hunt the Wumpus?

Night Driver?

Bruce

OH MOTHERFUCKERS

That's a screenshot of Clownce, for the iPhone. $0.99.

CIRCUS ATARI IT IS!!!

Actually .... Circus Atari it is?

That is a good idea, since I don't think Stella's made it to the iPhone yet.

I thought I had it -- TRON Light Cycles -- and then I found this.

Maybe you could dig through the old Atari 2600 library and see if there's anything that hasn't been ported yet.

Yeah, seriously. Rogue and Eliza would be clutch, but I think a million nerds had the same idea as I.

I can't believe that there are only FORTY games in the Cydia section. What a way to get great exposure!

Christ, maybe I ought to move Creeping Maw from a possibly-made Vectrex game to an iPhone one.

"want some rye" Tapper

The first two I came up with, "Rogue" and "Eliza", have apparently already been done. I'll have to go dig through my old, OLD disks and do some brainstorming. When I think of old PD games I think of card games like blackjack and whatnot, um, what else ... horse racing?

Xenophobia!

I'd like to take a fun game from our past and maybe "port" it to the iPhone.

The first thing I thought of was "Lemonade Stand." Well, someone already did that.

Then I thought of "Hammurabi." Well fuck me, someone did that, too. (Though nobody seems to like the version that was created, so maybe I'll do that anyway.)

I think someone owns the IP for Oregon Trail, and I'd rather grab something abandoned.

Can you guys think of anything? I guess the only things that come to mind, as far as criteria goes, are:

- Very simple to implement
- Not obviously owned by a company.

Yes, I could make my own game from scratch, blah blah, I'd rather find the source and port something my first time out. It costs $99 to be part of Apple's development network, which is hilarious in its own right, so I'd be releasing this on Cydia, which only has about 40 entries in their "Games" section. (Cydia is the alternative to the App Store, for those people who have their phones in jailbreak mode.)