{"id":1341,"date":"2013-10-14T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:29:29","slug":"flipcase-a-quirky-game-for-your-iphone-5c-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/flipcase-a-quirky-game-for-your-iphone-5c-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipcase: A Quirky Game for your iPhone 5c Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome to Flipcase\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTVoD-3MDr0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, finally a good use for those new iPhone 5c cases! Perth-based <a href=\"discovr.info\" target=\"_blank\">Filter Squad<\/a> (aka <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidkmckinney\" target=\"_blank\">Dave McKinney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stuartkhall\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Hall<\/a>) have taken it upon themselves to create a game that takes full advantage of those little cut-out holes when you reverse the case and place it over the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Flipcase was a &#8216;weekend project&#8217; for the duo, and it&#8217;s a fairly simple Connect 4-style game with some neat uses of the new UIKit Dynamics physics engine present in iOS 7. Full marks for thinking outside the box!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the tweet that started it all, back in September:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1342\" alt=\"iPhone 5c Case\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/27133811\/BT6_XplIIAAAv6V.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/27133811\/BT6_XplIIAAAv6V.jpg 550w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/27133811\/BT6_XplIIAAAv6V-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/27133811\/BT6_XplIIAAAv6V-380x198.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Surely devs have started building games that require you to put the iPhone 5c case on backwards <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/5CvjxgsNy4\">pic.twitter.com\/5CvjxgsNy4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stuart Hall (@stuartkhall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stuartkhall\/statuses\/377949831891009536\">September 12, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great job guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ah, finally a good use for those new iPhone 5c cases! Perth-based Filter Squad (aka Dave McKinney and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,255,254,253,252],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}