Re: Petition for SomethinElse games to be back
The games are gone just as many other audio games have also disappeared. Get over it and move on.
It seems every so often, we lose another audio game. As small as the library is, it kinda feels sad to me. I'm at least a little bummed when any game I used to like goes away, even if it's something really stupid that nobody in their right mind would think to play now that supposedly better games are out. Yeah we knew it would come to this long ago, SomethinElse kept putting it out that each iteration of IOS was making things harder and sooner or later they'd just have to quit. But a blunt "get over it and move on" doesn't seem very encouraging in this small community, even if, as repeatedly stated, it's all you can do in this case.
Also something else I should mention: The sounds to these games are visible if you downloaded an IPA back when the apps were still b eing sold. You can download IPA files through ITunes, extract them with 7zip and the sounds are right there, no illegal hacking knowledge needed. You can't get IPA files for the games anymore, and if you could I really have no clue how well they'd work, so that's probably why they were pulled from purchases. It strikes me as a little odd that, as damn good as their audio is, it wasn't kept a little more safe. If the sounds were wide open, what else was too? That thought scares me a little bit if I were trying to think from a developer standpoint, and is something worth thinking about when you decide to develop an audio game. How easy is it for people to obtain your assets? Could someone reengineer your game? In the case of SomethinElse I doubt it, though the sounds is over half the assets right there. I do hope if they ever make games again, and I reeeally still hope they do, that they at least have better protection and can somehow... establish better marketting , since I think that was an ongoing struggle for them. Getting enough funding for the games. I know nothing about doing these things, so I can't blame them for having the struggles they did. I probably wouldn't have done 10 percent the work they did if I were trying to do it myself, so I'm not trying to say they did anything wrong.
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