{"id":1373,"date":"2009-10-08T22:29:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T03:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:57:11","slug":"social-gaming-networks-for-iphone-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/social-gaming-networks-for-iphone-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Gaming Networks for iPhone update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update. Last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=boISyYkY0ls&#038;offerid=146261&#038;type=3&#038;subid=0&#038;tmpid=1826&#038;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D300670609%2526mt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">The Creeps<\/a> received an update that added AGON Online support (one of the social gaming networks for the iPhone I talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/social-gaming-on-the-iphone\/\">here<\/a>). What was truly surprising, however was that it seemed to have a newer version of the AGON Online implementation that allowed you to tie multiple AGON Online accounts to one device and select the preferred profile from a list prior to starting your game. It is now the service most similar to Xbox Live on the iPhone and that much closer to supplanting OpenFeint as my preferred service.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I found a rather nasty bug in Plus+&#8217;s &#8220;Search Contacts&#8221; feature for finding friends on the Plus+ network. When scrolling through my contacts list, both <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=boISyYkY0ls&#038;offerid=146261&#038;type=3&#038;subid=0&#038;tmpid=1826&#038;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D293559498%2526mt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">MazeFinger Plus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=boISyYkY0ls&#038;offerid=146261&#038;type=3&#038;subid=0&#038;tmpid=1826&#038;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D328913805%2526mt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">Topple 2 Plus<\/a> crashed just before specific contacts became visible on the screen. I was able to replicate and isolate the issue (by removing key contacts from my phone and resolving the issue, at least until I hit the next &#8220;bad&#8221; contact). Hopefully that gets fixed soon, so I can add some more friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update. Last night, The Creeps received an update that added AGON Online support (one of the social gaming networks for the iPhone I talked about here). What was truly surprising, however was that it seemed to have a newer version of the AGON Online implementation that allowed you to tie multiple AGON [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-iphone-ipad","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1248,"url":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/social-gaming-on-the-iphone\/","url_meta":{"origin":1373,"position":0},"title":"Social Gaming on the iPhone","author":"Jared Cash","date":"October 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of media attention (at least, gaming-media) has been given to Plus+ since its announcement. 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