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5 Fingers does iPhone game bundle right

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Mar 10th, 2009


Software bundles are normally things that appear for computers, however, one developer believes that the iPhone deserves the same money-saving offer. The 5 Fingers Bundle [iTunes link] does just that -- it combines five awesome games into one application for one price.

While bundles are not something new on the App Store, the implementation of this bundle is something special. The user interface for switching between the different games is amazing, and makes it feel as though there was care taken in creating this bundle.

The games included in the batch are:
It would definitely be neat to see more developers follow this route. You can find more information about the Five Fingers Bundle on their website, or by visiting the iTunes App Store where you can purchase it for $4.99US.

Gallery: 5 Fingers Bundle

Tags: App Store, AppStore, Blackbeards Assault, BlackbeardsAssault, bundle, BurnBall, Chopper, iPhone, Sneezies, Up There, UpThere

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Multimedia, iTunes

Touch Arcade interviews maker of iPhone Chopper

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jun 5th, 2008

Touch Arcade has a nice interview up with David Frampton, author of both the Mac game Chopper and its upcoming port to the iPhone. Apparently the game is feature complete and now in testing, so hopefully it'll be one of the first apps up on the App Store when it arrives, supposedly sometime this month.

The game will use the iPhone's accelerometer to control the little helicopter, and Frampton says it's both a blessing and a curse, in that it makes things more fun to control, but the iPhone also has to be held at a certain angle to center it out (they're planning to get around this by adding a way to calibrate it for different playing situations). He also talks about how the iPhone's OpenGL ES version works, and says that, despite our worries about battery life, the iPhone is able to churn out a pretty consistent FPS as well as keeping battery usage fairly low. To be fair, Chopper is probably on the low end of graphics potential, but we'll take any good news we can get here.

The game is still on track for a release in late June, and while even Frampton doesn't have details to share about the App Store's launch day, Apple's past support of this title means that if any third party games make it into the App Store, this one will definitely be there as early as possible.

Tags: app-store, chopper, david-frampton, design, games, interview, iphone, joystiq, majic-jungle, opengl-es, touch-arcade

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