First Game ported from the iPhone to Zune HD!

September 19, 2009 by Ricardo Dawkins

Open the Flood gates: First iPhone App Ported to Zune HD

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Ahh, the wonders of Twitter. I think news on the Twitter Wire moves faster than bad news, which everyone knows moves faster than the speed of light. Regardless of the speed at which information travels, it seems like porting a game from one platform to another happens even faster. This time, thanks to volvoshine, I bring news of another first for Zune HD apps. This app is just as revolutionary as the multitouch drawing app we reported previously. In just twelve hours development group Foundation42 managed to port the first iPhone-based app to the Zune HD. Check out their video below of a game called WordMonger:

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Accompanying the video, they had this to say about the games development,

â€œWe built it over the last few weeks using the new MonoTouch toolkit on the Mac. Yesterday we ported it to the Zune HD in 12 hours! We are really hoping that Microsoft can provide a way to publish third party games on the Zune app store soon.

+ “YouTube - WordMonger Cross Platform Test” via YouTube

Look like the one advantage of the iPhone will be gone in 3 months…. 75,000 apps for the Zune. LOL
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Read the original thread on Zune Boards!

Comments

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Netrix Purger of Ignorance	This is pretty cool. Perhaps it will encourage other developers to port their games/apps as well.
09-18-2009, 08:10 PM	#2

Creative Zune	evil laugh Microsoft are you paying attention?
09-18-2009, 08:10 PM	#3

combatfetus	Win! This is great. All we need is an easier way to put [these] apps onto the Zune HD. A website or marketplace dedicated to this would also be nice...Ahem...Microsoft...
09-18-2009, 08:16 PM	#4

Berty	Yeah this kinda grinds my gears......people are interested in developing for zune, and ms shuts them down
09-18-2009, 08:18 PM	#5

sir justin	And Apple Fanboys think that the Zune wont have many Apps....muhaha hahahahah hahahahahahahhaa
09-18-2009, 09:40 PM	#6

ekaschyk	Hey did anyone else notice the difference in CONTRAST on the two devices? Holy mother of pearl does the HD trounce iTouch's screen!!
09-18-2009, 10:10 PM	#7

joshuaread	Even though it's clearly a very simple game, this is still really cool. Microsoft really needs to get on the ball and let third-party devs create apps for the marketplace.
09-18-2009, 10:33 PM	#8

theguywholoveszunehd	Looks like an addicting game. I hope they release it! if not on the Zune Marketplace, here!
09-19-2009, 06:01 AM	#9

Kohkane	Did anyone else notice that it loaded MUCH faster than the current apps? :O
09-19-2009, 07:48 AM	#10

theguywholoveszunehd

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Originally Posted by Kohkane

Did anyone else notice that it loaded MUCH faster than the current apps? :O

I didnt think so. Mine loads that fast.

09-19-2009, 08:03 AM theguywholoveszunehd is offline

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Kohkane	Really? Because mine seems slower than the apps should be loading.
09-19-2009, 08:07 AM	#12

Zazuneafoon	if worst come to worst, We could just take all of the Ipods games, apps and convert them, unless MS or Apple find this out and they'll just shut it down.
09-19-2009, 08:12 AM	#13

Creative Zune

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Originally Posted by Zazuneafoon

if worst come to worst, We could just take all of the Ipods games, apps and convert them, unless MS or Apple find this out and they'll just shut it down.

if that happen who do you think will get sued..and how much will they sue for??>....how many zeros?

09-19-2009, 08:41 AM Creative Zune is online now

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Adamd	I still think Microsoft is holding back to much and in turn making a lot of potential customers think twice before buying. All these ported apps mean nothing if Microsoft does not allow them to be posted in the App download center. Microsoft just needs to come forward and release what is needed to get the party started. It would have to be somewhat easy for them to allow you to upload an app.
09-19-2009, 08:47 AM	#15

Neoxphuse	the SQ out of the HD just beats the touch out of the park. Amazing.
09-19-2009, 08:56 AM	#16

adamL	zune hd apps+ iphone apps= i will need the 64gb version when it will be released haha xD
09-19-2009, 10:07 AM	#17

Taboo	where is the download?
09-19-2009, 08:43 PM	#18

yensed Anti-Fanboy	This is what needs to be done for Microsoft to actually build an App store.
09-19-2009, 08:49 PM	#19

coryflett	something tells me MS made this hack on purpose, and something else tells me that apple will figure out, and shut it down just like the palm pre - itunes hack. but i guess MS now has a bigger app store than apple, considering they have the same one plus more games
09-19-2009, 11:06 PM	#20