Today during the WWDC keynote, several developers got on stage to strut their new iPhone/Touch apps. Here’s a rundown, clipped together from Macworld’s coverage:
Super Monkey Ball - 110 stages in the game; “all of the classic monkeys”; uses the accelerometer for tilt control; available at the App Store launch for $9.99.
eBay app - “Easy access to search, summary of activities, and personal avatar…It’ll show you when you’ve been outbid, so you can easily see what you’re winning and losing. Entering a bid is really easy”; available at App Store launch for free.
loopt - location-based social networking tool; see your friends superimposed on a map; “You can see what people have been up to all day, and look at photos they’ve taken. You can call, text, or comment on your friends’ status feeds”; available at App Store launch for free.
Enigmo - physics-based puzzle game from Pangea; “completely touch-based; drag and drop, zooming, panning, and rotating your puzzle pieces”; available at launch for $9.99.
Cro-Mag Rally - 3-D caveman racing game from Pangea; “iPhone’s tilt controls get used as the steering wheel”; available at App Store launch for $9.99.
Band - app from solo developer Mark Terry of Cow Music; “Two-octave piano, drum kit, and a 12-bar blues setting that quite literally lets you play a 12-bar blues all on your own”; “you can mix all the different instruments together and form your own band”; available in a few weeks, no pricing info.
MLB.com - iPhone-native baseball app; “It’ll show you all the live games. It’ll give you all the scores, who’s on base, who’s batting, etc. It’s even got real-time video highlights from games just as they’re being played”; available at App Store launch.
Modality - medical app; “learning application to help medical students learn anatomical information, replacing paper flash cards. Zoom and pan across high-quality pictures, and you can tap on a pin to identify a body part. It’ll also quiz you on locating anatomical features.”
MiMvista - medical imaging app; CT scan and PET scan, etc; “They fuse the two images together, and let you switching which oreientation you can look at the image from: front, back, top, etc.”; available at App Store launch.
Krull - game from Digital Legends Entertainment; warrior game of some sort (lacking details); “when you get a look at the graphics, you’ll forget you’re looking at a phone and think you’re looking at a dedicated gaming console”; available in September.
(Be sure to check out Macworld’s live coverage of the WWDC keynote.)
