iPhone Port

[Chai]

Dear akr;

Yes, if your iphone port engine is launched, I will immediately put on the apple store.
I believe that you can sell this iphone port engine as a commercial.
It will be very good sell.

[akr]

The iphone engine will need the Xcode environment to deploy to iphone/appstore because of codesign. Would this be acceptable?

[Chai]

Yes, it is acceptable.
And I believe that all iphone developers have no choice to buy a Mac to deploy a game with Xcode and Iphone SDK.

I assume that for running an iphone port. It needs to be run on Mac.

Even " Torque", a famous game builder, you can create a game on PC.
But, when you want to port to iphone. You have to reload and run on Mac again.

Also, " Game Salad", another game builder, it needs to be run on Mac as well.

I just got Mac for running a game development.

The iphone SDK and Xcode?
Both file sizes are 2GB needed to be run on Mac.

[akr]

Yes. You will need the iPhone SDK and being a registered apple developer. This is 99,-- a year.

[Chai]

Yes, I've registered with the apple.
Thank you very much.

If you want a beta tester, I would love to join too.

[akr]

I am currently looking for testcases. Can anyone send me some good ones? Preferable a mobile game because of the screen dimensions. I will then help to bring your game to appstore.

[Chai]

What file are you looking for.
Is it game editor file?

The resolution for the Iphone screen is 320wx480h.

[akr]

Yes. I also have a "editor" beta supporting the iphone resolution. So anything in a "mobile" resolution is interesting and can be easily adjusted to the iphone resolution. The beta also supports portrait and landscape mode.

[Kalladdolf]

I don't have anything as of now, but I'm working on something.
By the way, the way I understand it, you can't just export a game to the iPhone executable format, right? Or can you at least do that for testing purposes? Because that would be nicer for GE users who neither have a Mac or the iPhone SDK (such as me). Thanks.

[Chai]

Dear Akr: Do you have an Email? So I can send a file of my game to you.

[akr]

There is no chance to deploy for iphone other than from a mac. Windows is no choice. Its time to think about. Pays off!!!

[Kalladdolf]

That's a shame. I really hoped I didn't have to spend all the money for a mac.

[akr]

Lets discuss a service to bring your game into appstore. How could that look like?

Send me you game and I will bring it to appstore. Contact me here to get further details.

Andreas

[akr]

Ladies & Gents,

we made a big progress. A gameEngine for iPhone is now available and can be sent. Games will
be loaded from a defined location to iPhone.

So we are looking for beta testers. Send me your iPhone/iPad serial ID and you will get your own
gameEngine for testing for your iPhone. Let us also know if you want GE for windows or Mac.

Andreas

[skydereign]

Any chance this will run on Linux gameEditor? I personally don't have an iPhone or iPad so I can't directly test anything as of now.