Linked List: September 3, 2023

Sunday, 3 September 2023

Jigx 

My thanks to Jigx for sponsoring last week at DF. Jigx empowers anyone with basic development and SQL skills to build native iOS apps. Not squashed websites in a native container. But powerful, pixel-perfect mobile apps that run natively on iOS and iPadOS. Serious well-crafted apps that you can be proud of, and that people love to use.

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Ollie’s Arcade 

The Iconfactory:

All of us here at the Iconfactory love the classic video games we played in our youth. Many hours were spent in front of titles like Asteroids, Moon Patrol, and Battlezone, as well as cherished handheld electronic games like Mattel Football, Simon, and Merlin. Ollie’s Arcade recaptures a little bit of this magic and gives players a chance to turn their iPhone or iPad into a retro gaming experience.

Two of the games in Ollie’s Arcade — Ollie Soars and Tranquility Touchdown — were inspired by simple Easter eggs in Twitterrific, our beloved Twitter app. We polished Tranquility Touchdown, completely revamped Ollie Soars, and added an all-new third game — our own take on the classic Snake. All of Ollie’s mini-games are easy to learn and designed to be accessible for everyone. You can even play with your favorite game controller or via wireless keyboard.

Ollie Soars is free of charge; the other two games are just $2 each. What a novel idea: pay once, play them forever. Tranquility Touchdown gets so many little details from the vector graphics arcade era right.

The Talk Show: ‘Pleading the Fifth’ 

Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about his experience at Apple’s developer lab for Vision Pro, and his enthusiasm for the future of spatial computing.

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