Game Center slowly coming to life?
Apple's iOS Developer News is letting developers know how to set up Game Center achievements and leaderboard categories:
You can now set up metadata for your Game Center Achievements and Leaderboard Categories in iTunes Connect. Setting up these elements will allow you to test the full capabilities of Game Center for your app in the sandbox environment.
Apple announced Game Center way back in early April but instead of shipping it in June with iOS 4, they said it would be coming "later this year". The basic idea is to give "Xbox live" style social networking to iOS devices like iPhone and iPad.
For example, Chad challenges me to the latest hot FPS. I get a Game Center notification but since I don't have the game, it asks me if I want to get it and then automagically handles the download, and since it knows Chad and I are friends, gives me a grenade launcher and sets me after him. Then it shows all our other friends how Georgia sniped me just as I was about to blow him up. Dang.
Though it's obviously game-centric, there are rumors Apple could extend features to other apps as well.
Let's hope "later" comes as soon as possible.
Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.
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I won't be getting that now....
Staying with the jailbreak
Seriously with the things lacking in iOS4 Apple took the time out for GameCenter when they could have used that time for better notifications? I went to the ATT Store to check out the Captivate and I was ready to jump ship specifically for that one aspect. I think I'm gonna just get another line a check out Android for a while. There needs to be one central place to check all your notifications I'm sorry that is more important than this.
OpenFeint works fine, this should be lower on Apple's priorities.
People stop complaining apple knows what it's doing when game center comes every one and there mama gonna jump in
Other then notification system what does google phone has iPhone don't
Are you kidding me Rio? One you shouldn't have all the excess taps to get to settings. People jailbreak specifically for SBS settings alone. Two there needs to be a today screen that gives you the option to go directly into the mail app. Having to leave apps for text messaging is cumbersome as well. How about being able to control all you Bluetooth music listening from the headset. I can go on. And I'm not complaining I'm stating my opinion.
@Desmond.. have you given any thought into purchasing an Android phone??