Sunday, 17 February 2008

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Matchcaps, Is it a clone of Bejeweled?

game follows the popular "match three" format familiar to online

gaming fans. Matchcaps is very similar to Bejeweled and doesn't make

much sense to have another shining over it.

Posted by Muratos at 1:41 AM Links to this post

Labels: bejeweled, brickshooter, free iphone games, matchcaps

Nice News : Open-Source 3D Game Engine for Apple iPhone

LivingArcana.com, a community based free MMORPG (Multi Massive Online

Role Playing Game), announced that they have started development of an

open-source 3D engine to the Apple iPhone platform making Apple's

iPhone a viable option as a mobile gaming platform.

LivingArcana.com hired a talented Brazilian programmer, Gutemberg

Ribeiro, of "Conceptus" an open source game engine, to port the engine

over to Apple's iPhone platform. The port of the game engine will

remain open source and will be available under LGPL license to allow

true 3D game development on the iPhone.

The first public release of Conceptus for the iPhone is scheduled for

early 2008.

The Conceptus game engine which already runs on the Windows, Mac,

Symbian and even the Nintendo DS platforms will bring ParticleFX, BSP,

Octree, PagingLandscape, Zip Compression, GlGenerator,

GlPostProcessor, OpenAL, and an Extension Loader to the new iPhone.

This benefits of these is that it will enable game developers to focus

on writing game code and will leave the low level hardware code to the

Conceptus engine.

It should also be mentioned that this project is being done without

the support of Apple. Apple has said they will be offering official


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