Neverball is a new game for the iPhone and iPod touch developed by Robert Kooima, but ported by Lazrhog.
Neverball is free software under the GNU General Public License and is also avaialble for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and the Sega Dreamcast.
A donation of US$1 or more is requested.
This game is open source, and the source code for it will be released once the porting and appstore activities have taken place.
More info here.
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Sung to the tune of: “Never my balls…”
Coming in August: James Bond in “Never Say Neverballs Again”
Opening score: “Sit on my face and tell me that you love me I’ll sit on your face and tell you I love you too”
Man I love them fuckin’ pop-ups! Keep’em comin MDN!
Gotta agree about the obnoxious popup windows. I rarely come here anymore. Try http://www.tuaw.com its way better without the 90’s popup windows.
No pop-ups in a very long time. Safari-exclusive.
I use Firefox and it blocks the popups.
Use Safari or get the Adblock add on for firefox. Adblock also hides the in site adds too.
I use NetNewsWire. What’s a pop-up?
I run a script on my router that maintains a huge list of filters that redirect any ad site URLs to 127.0.0.1. So, I can use whatever browser I want and be ad-free. Even Safari on the iPhone.
I HATE the MDN pop-ups so much that I rarely go to the site anymore. I just rely on the RSS feed and only if the article is interesting do I go to MDN.
Stop the fuckin pop-ups and I may return, MDN.
Pay MDN’s bills and then you can whine about the pop ups. Times are tough. Suck it up and kwit yer bitchin’.
Thanks, MDN.
The title of the article says that the game has been released, yet, we have to wait for the app store to open up. Contradict much? :p
Matt–
How does that work? Can this be done with any router? I have an Apple Airport Extreme router. Will that work with mine, and do I have to be an übergeek to figure it out?
Yeah, bills had to be paid, so even ThinkPads and Instincts are advertised on MDN. Nice of them to contribute to their own dissing.
Not a single comment about the game, the subject of the article. Wow. You all ADD so much to the conversation.
For those who have not tried Neverball on OS X, it’s an excellent skill game somewhat comparable to MarbleBlast, except you control the 3D movements of the playing surface to move the balls through the courses (instead of controlling the movements of the ball itself as in MB).
It’s a very “safe” game to let kids play, it’s fun, and it’s free. And now it’s available for iPod Touch and the iPhone. Download it for your Mac, too. It runs fine on G4 eMac with 256 MB RAM and Tiger.
Let’s support these developers, not just show the nutbar side of the Mac user’s brain as most of the comments above accomplish.
Looks like a crap version of super monkey ball.
I read MDN daily using an iPod touch or multiple Mac’s running 10.4.11 or 10.5.x. No pop-ups with Safari!
Yeah but Petey, give ’em a break dude
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Woah, I just downloaded it and it’s bloody fantastic. Great smooth graphics, nice gameplay, no installation necessary (on the Mac anyway).
http://icculus.org/neverball/#download
Check it out if you have time.
Nice. Can’t wait to download the iPhone version now. schweet. Much better than I expected. And the sweet deal is, if you want it to run on ‘doze you have to fsck about with DLLs PMSL…
“Windows users NOTE: The Windows binary packages include all necessary DLLs for SDL and its related libraries. However, some of the game binaries were build using Visual Studio 7.1, and may require MSVCR71.DLL. These packages do not provide this DLL. It maybe acquired by installing the .Net Framework, Office .Net, or Visual Studio .Net.”
ROTFLMAO
He, he, he what’s your take son!
Windoze, what a fscking joke!
I do love the British way of using the word fsck, as in: to “fsck about”. Truely.
About the game name, is that some sort of admonishment to abstain from “fscking about”.
Anyway, I think the days of “PDA” are over, and the beginning of real palm computing has arrived. Man! Where we’re going to be in a year with hand held computers is going to be very exciting.
Just downloaded and tried it on my desktop computer – A very neat game indeed! And definitely best suited for the motion sensitivity of the iPod. Very Cool!
You have to jailbreak the phone to play. BWHAHAHAHA.
fsck — filesystem consistency check and interactive repair
from the OS X / Unix man pages
And you thought fsck meant something nasty?
@qka,
I see. So that would mean that what @British Mac Head meant to say was, “…if you want it to run on ‘doze you have to filesystem-consistency-check-and-interactive-repair [fsck] about with DLLs PMSL…”
Got it.