The iPhone's hacked video conferencing app won the Iron Coder challenge at the C-4 Dev conference, but the silver prize is tons more fun. "Lights Out" is the world's first third part iPhone game to run native on the system. It's free, but you'll need to download iActivator to jailbreak and run the app from the command line using an SSH app. (Fun! Consider that the first level.) Here's a video of Jason Chen playing, and not sticking it down his pants. Go, dev team, go! [LightsOut via Arn]









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Will we remember this moment, to our dying day? I for one will. It is that wonderful.
This is nice. The other native apps so far are pretty nice. But nothing like this. This thing is great. I REALLY hope Steve puts this on his phone. THEN I'd like to see him play one of those stupid webapp games instead of this. Native is awesome.
Steve, please, take a look.
BTW, if you haven't "hacked" your iPhone, and have been thinking about it, do it.
wow! that will be really cool if they mix music with light control (kind of like a DDR for iTunes)
Erm... you mean lights off? Or at least, thats what the website and the game itself name the game... But I don't own an iphone, so I probably don't know these things.
@James:
Ive been wanting to do it but i dont have a mac. =(
If someone tells me get one, I would rather sell my iPhone than get a Mac. Not that i don't like macs, but I have a PC and its perfectly good for what i need it to do. Simple, when I bought this phone because I though it is nice, but to buy a new system to put stuff on it is not worth it for me.
@Totalfixation:
Get a Mac.
Jk lol...no, really, switch.
@Totalfixation: I don't have a mac. You don't have to have a mac to hack your iPhone.
Windows Steps:
Step 1: get the files: [www.hacktheiphone.com]
Step 2: Jailbreak, Install SSH [www.hacktheiphone.com]
Step 3: use WinSCP and put "Lights Off.app" on your phone.
Stop it iphoneophiles. Thats a pretty boring looking game. Are you tellin me I've got to "hack the iphone" to get just a simple little game I played when i was a kid? C'mon wake me up when it games like the psp. If it cant game wake me when it an edit office docs like a pocket PC. If it can't use word docs wake me when either the Gphone or Zunephone come out.
Thankyou, I hate the iphone.
-mp
ok
i miss that game i had the handheld of it XD.
@marshallpeck:
I'll wake you up, until then, please go back to sleep.
(I'll really just let him sleep...)
Wake ME up when there's a phone that's as easy to use as the iPhone. It does what I need it to do, very easily and without effort.
@Truepatriot: With the huge soft-lit buttons?
Me too!
I miss it, I wonder if I have it somewhere in the attic. If I could find it I'd probably have a new addiction besides Achievements.
@MIKEAWESOME: What's your achievement score?
The games you guys are probably remembering is called Merlin. They still make it.
@thenomain:
No, they are probably thinking of "Lights Out" as stated in the post. Look into it.
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