What makes an iPod game tick

i bought vortex..put it on my ipod then it just starts up and says Vortex then it says error this game can not be played...reinstall it...I did that but it doesn't seem to work.

Wagga wagga wagga wagga

Well if anyone can make any progress I'm pretty sure I've got the perfect website for it.

www.ipodgames.com

Feel free to email me... I'll have to update the site at some point... I had begun to lose all hope :)

If Apple opens up the SDK so that other developers can create games for the iPod, there'll finally be some good games to play on the iPhone whenever it comes out. If I see another crappy J2ME Sudoku clone being sold for $10 on a carrier portal (PLUS carriage!), I'll puke.

parel-
i could never get mine to update, i had to just do a restore and that did the trick. of course you loose anything on your ipod this way.

I have a 5G ipod, the vesion is 1.1.2, i already downloaded iTunes 7 and i cant find how to update my iPod to version 1.2, where is the updater?

Kevin, unfortunately, much like Sony's memory stick binaries, it appears that iPod Games require a certificate from Apple.

I did a lengthy breakdown myself today:
http://vjarmy.com/archives/2006/09/dissecting_ipod_games.php

The bad thing about iPod games is each resource (images, audio, etc) is a separate file, which means when the iPod reads it, it's accessing your iPod's hard drive, causing more wear and tear = a shorter lifespan. I was hoping they would make the iPod games just a single binary, similar to their firmware.

Additionally, the images are .PIX, which appear to be raw RGB, but I haven't determined the format exactly yet.

I wouldn't be surprised if the actual iPod game binary is encoded like iTunes purchases are. But if it's not, then once it's hacked (ARM disassembler?), anyone should be able to make an iPod game.