Lights Off: First unauthorized native iPhone game

iPhone hacking community has been making steady progress by releasing a flurry of native iPhone applications which had started with the simple "Hello World" application. The latest iPhone hack is interestingly the first native iPhone game called "Lights Off".

Delicious Monster's Lucas Newman along with Adam Betts have programmed the first unauthorized iPhone Game.

The game is quite simple, the objective is as the name suggests to turn all the light off, more details on how-to play this game is mentioned below:

"The objective is to switch all of the lights out. Tapping a light toggles it, along with the four adjacent lights. Once you switch all of the lights out, you'll advance to the next level!"

The interesting bit of this iPhone hack is that the hackers have used Apple's UIKit framework to develop the native iPhone game, the same framework used by Apple to get the YouTube and Google Maps applications onto the iPhone.

I am not sure how much that helped the developers but apparently the game looks as good as one has seen so far and feels quite the part of the iPhone.

Not surprisingly, "Lights Off" took 2nd place in the C4 Iron Coder competition behind the Video Conferencing application for the iPhone which was featured here earlier in the week. (see iPhoneHacks.com, August 15 2007,Two-way video conferencing on iPhone made possible by an iPhone hack)

However, as you would expect with most iPhone hacks, the installation of the game on the iPhone is not for the faint hearted. The iPhone application is available for free download at this link, and for in-depth instructions on how to install applications on your phone, look at this article courtesy iPhone Atlas.

Update: Link to the Developer's website, click here

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