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by Aaron Linde, Mar 06, 2008 12:12pm PSTPorts of Sega's Super Monkey Ball and Maxis' hugely anticipated life-sim Spore are in development for Apple's iPhone, Gizmodo reports.
The news dropped during a conference at Apple's headquarters in which the company detailed the release of the iPhone software developer's kit. Speaking on the possibility of game development on the platform, Apple revealed that versions of Spore and Super Monkey Ball are already in the works.
The titles both showcase the use of the iPhone's 3D capabilities, and utilize the phone's multitouch screen and built-in accelerometers. Apple also pointed out that the iPhone port of Spore is not a scaled-down affair; all 18 levels, from the microbic to cosmic, are represented in Spore's iPhone incarnation.
No price point or release date was mentioned, but Apple stated that all upcoming applications and games in development for the iPhone will be available exclusively on the newly-launched App Store, accessible via iTunes, the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
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This is fucking HUGE.
http://kotaku.com/364824/apple-has-democratized-platform+specific-game-design
*The SDK is being made available for free for anyone to develop on the iPhone.
* $99 a year gives you the ability to post and sell games on the itunes store for one year. Think about this. You can't do this with Xbox Live or PSN. You can't even do this with Steam.
* The iPhone market already has people tapped into buying small transactions of music and videos. This market is tied in already. Every single iPhone customer is a potential customer.
*Apple has set aside 100,000,000 to seed software development for the iPhone. This is massive support.
The only Apple product I've bought in the last ten years has been an ipod. I don't own stock and honestly have never been a fan of their work. This, is going to be big though.
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I can't really forgive Apple for that horseshit and I am very weary of buying add-on software from them as a result, not that I own an iPhone.
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