I borrowed an iPhone to test Evil Lair Command and it almost worked. All the text was being displayed upside down inside and outside the canvas. The text that was still inside the canvas was flickering while the text outside wasn’t being “erased” each frame, so it just piled into a big smudge of pixels. The framerate was low and based on the FPS smudge I think it was single-digits low. And it was darn near impossible to hit any pesky agent boats, though I did accidentally hit one, so I know it’s possible. I think it could work if I could have some more time to work on it with a real iPhone, but I don’t want to buy an iPhone just for this silly game. =p Here’s some screenshots of the grand event.

Bottom line: don’t try to play Evil Lair Command on an iPhone (3GS to be precise) unless you’re morbidly curious. However, if you have an Android device or some other mobile device that supports the Canvas tag, I’d be happy to hear the results.

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