Help Get Frenzic on the iPhone!
Gedeon Maheux, Co-Founder of the Icon Factory, has sent out a plea for your help. The Icon Factory wants to see their hit Mac puzzle game, Frenzic, be available for play on the iPhone. Unfortunately, as you’ve probably heard, Apple is not letting third party developers like the Icon Factory create Cocoa based software for the iPhone. I met Craig Hockenberry also of Icon Factory at WWDC this year and we discussed how awesome Frenzic would be on the iPhone. Think about it! It’s a viciously addictive casual puzzle game—great for killing a few minutes before class or on the bus. Frenzic’s user interface would work perfectly with the iPhone’s beautiful multi-touch screen. Finally, Frenzic has an awesome web-based leaderboard where iPhone toting folks everywhere could battle it out with each other and with Mac users for the title of best Frenzic player in the world. To me this sounds like a wicked combination… “A Match Made In Geek Heaven“.
In a perfect world, the iPhone would be open to all third party Cocoa development. For the time being, the most realistic change we can hope to see is Apple opening iPhone Cocoa development to a few trusted applications or games that the public demands. If you’d like to add your voice to the many others trying to sway Apple towards letting Frenzic onto the iPhone you can do your part to support this grassroots campaign by telling Apple what you think.
I think this is a fantastic idea – I guess it would really work well on the iPhone. Good idea! I hope you can do it!
Flash support is headed very soon for the iPhone. In my honest opinion I’d rather see developers aim for what we know exists then ask Apple to revisit what is clearly a planned strategy.
For example, the Nintendo Wii has Flash support allowing for hundreds of FREE amazing games to be played that take advantage of the motion sensing technology.
Sounds like sour apples to be perfectly honest.
http://digg.com/apple/Photos_of_Frenzic_running_on_IPhone