{"id":235,"date":"2009-08-19T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-08-19T23:04:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:04:25","slug":"development-sneak-peak-4-player-arcade-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Development sneak peek &#8211; 4 Player Arcade for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 iPhone.\u00a0 4 players.\u00a0 The age old problem of deciding who gets to play first has finally been solved&#8230; everybody plays!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Introducing 4-Player Arcade<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This project started because I was just curious if a game that allowed<strong> four people to play simultaneously<\/strong> on a single iPhone could be done in a reasonable fashion.<\/p>\n<p>After testing this in the wild and going through a few iterations, I can tell you.. yup, it works quite well, even on four hyper kids.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I didn&#8217;t think just 4 player pong or 4 player breakout would really cut it, value-wise, so I am packing three great games (Well, two out of three will be, Pong is.. well, just pong, er, &lt;cough, cough&gt; Blip Tennis I mean, I don&#8217;t want to get sued)\u00a0 into a single package.<\/p>\n<p>These are some<em> very early<\/em> in-game screen-shots to wet your appetite.\u00a0 I&#8217;m manipulating some well known game genres with interesting rules so they will be fun for anywhere between 1-4 players.\u00a0 The players can be any combination of human or AI.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-235 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_main1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_main1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_main2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_main2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_setup.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_setup-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_pong.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_pong-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_smashball.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/4play_smashball-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>* Game name and screenshots subject to change<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 iPhone.\u00a0 4 players.\u00a0 The age old problem of deciding who gets to play first has finally been solved&#8230; everybody plays! 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