Rumorama: iPhone Game Achievements Coming Soon?
From over at Homotron: If you remember our live coverage of the iPhone Software Roadmap last week, you saw Apple put a rather strong emphasis on gaming on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
They touted the platform's 3D video and audio capabilities, its accelerometer controls for Wii and SIXAXIS like controls, and even brought EA and Sega to the stage to show off early builds of Spore and Super Monkey Ball running on an iPhone.
Close reading of a recent patent filing by Apple reveals another piece of the iPhone/iPod Touch gaming puzzle that could be coming soon: Game Achievements!
The media purchase system can also be utilized to facilitate a community of game players. These game players acquire games via a client device and media management application, and then play the games on portable electronic devices. The game play data, including game performance data for specific games, can be transfered from the portable electronic devices to the client devices. The client devices can then transfer such game play data over the data network to a game community server. For example, the game performance data can pertain to a high score that a user achieved while playing the game on the portable electronic device.
iAchievements - coming to an iPhone/iPod Touch near you!
(About the image: that's a Hello World app running on the iPhone simulator right on my own Mac. Yep, Den Den Boy's playing with the SDK.)
Apple to Track iPhone Gaming High Scores? [MacRumors]
Den Den Boy
Posted to Video Games on 11 March 2008
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