Lim Thye Chean's Space War, an arcade-style game where you shoot down aliens, is a featured web app on Apple's site! Space War, which is written in Javascript, can be played in Safari and Mobile Safari (though you can't get sound if you play it in Mobile Safari).
Space War was originally written in Java for Android by Thye Chean and his son Ding Wen with Thye Chean working on the main logic of the game while his son worked on the collision detection and explosions.
Thye Chean ported his version (without the cool explosions) to Javascript for the iPhone but it ran too slowly on the currently build of the iPhone OS. He then decided to make Space War available to others by putting the Javascript version online.
He is waiting for 3.0 to be released before making Space War available as a native app for the iPhone.
The current version of Space War is largely Thye Chean's effort because it lacks the explosions that Ding Wen worked on for the Android version. However, this might change soon, so watch this space!
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