Jack Nutting

This is what happens when public health and science is villainized. It places a target on the backs of people just trying to help.

‎FlippyBit ‎It's time to flip your bit! Party like it's 1979! Tap to keep your bit floating past the stalactites and stalagmites of a vast digital cave! FlippyBit's simple gameplay, retro-styled graphics, and a...

14/14
Thanks for joining me on this walk down memory lane. I also want to give a plug here at the end for FlippyBit (iOS, tvOS, 2014) apps.apple.com/se/app/flipp... which has been around since 2014, is still going strong, and like the others is still completely free.

13/14
Swipe upwards from stick figures standing on the ground to shoot at weird enemies flying around above. Multitouch works well here, so you can use three fingers to blast away from all points simultaneously.

‎Scribattle ‎Scribattle is a fast-paced game where you must help your stick-man warriors defend their planet from a hostile Scri invasion. Use touch controls to defeat wave after wave of attackers, pushing your ...

12/14
Scribattle (iOS, 2009) apps.apple.com/se/app/scrib...

Here's the grand-daddy of them all, really the start of my whole iOS journey. I released this in early 2009, when the App Store itself was just six months old. Now it's back, after almost a decade away!

YouTube video by Jack Nutting Pits of Death trailer

11/14
Somewhat frustrating to play, honestly, but I still enjoy the faux-retro color LCD display idea that I came up with. I even created a song to go along with this, which is included only in the tvOS version (and in this video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLM_...

‎Pits of Death ‎Pits of Death is a dungeon adventure for iOS and Apple Watch. Explore a network of underground chambers on your quest to slay the dragon. But watch out for the pits! Pits of Death features graphics ...

10/14
Pits of Death (iOS, tvOS, 2015) apps.apple.com/se/app/pits-...

This was inspired by a handheld LCD game I had as a kid, which was in turn inspired by an older game called "Hunt the Wumpus".

GitHub - jnutting/TextShooter: A game for iOS built using SpriteKit. Initially created while writing the book "Beginning iOS 7 Development" A game for iOS built using SpriteKit. Initially created while writing the book "Beginning iOS 7 Development" - jnutting/TextShooter

9/14
And the source code is still available. github.com/jnutting/Tex...

‎TextShooter ‎A deceptively simple shooter that will put your tapping to the test. When these X's start falling, you'll need every finger you've got just to stay alive! No IAP, no ads, just good old-fashioned sho...

8/14
TextShooter (iOS, 2013) apps.apple.com/se/app/texts...

This is probably the simplest of the bunch. It was originally created for inclusion in one of my books, "Beginning iOS 7 Development", to showcase how to build a game with SpriteKit, and now it lives on!

7/14
Without further ado, here are a few iOS games of mine, back from the dead!

6/14
All of these are free to download, with no in-app purchases and no ads. Some for iOS, some for both iOS and tvOS, and all of them also work on Macs powered by M1/2/3/4/etc, too. All of these apps were coded entirely with my human brain and hands; no AI was involved in any part of these.

5/14
However, some of these apps were truly missed (by me, at least), so I spent some time this summer doing some long overdue housekeeping in my old Xcode projects, and submitting new builds to Apple.

4/14
Apple always warned me several months in advance of each of these changes, but since these apps weren't a priority for me, and brought me no revenue, I didn't bother updating them in time, and away they went.

3/14
Sometimes over the years, fully-functional apps that hadn't been updated in a few years were removed from the App Store by Apple as part of their continuous work in keeping things fresh.

2/14
During that time, I've also built and published several apps of my own, mostly games, to try out various technologies and put some ideas into the world.

1/14
Old App Revival
During the past fifteen years or so, I've built or contributed to dozens of iOS apps, for dozens of clients and several employers.

Virginia Giuffre was first trafficked by Epstein in 2001. Within one year, Trump would tell NY Magazine of Epstein, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." Meaning he clearly knew who Epstein was and STILL exposed these girls to him.

Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?

The people he was faced with seemed to be the douchiest douchebags who ever douched a bag (so to speak), at least the portion I watched. Unbearable to view, for me; I can't fathom how he could sit through that parade of imbeciles and assholes.

It’s like @johnrogers.bsky.social says: if you constantly label everything you don’t like socialism, and you suck, eventually the youth will just embrace socialism.

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

I’m no fan of the Iranian nuclear program. Which is why President Obama signed a treaty with Iran to dismantle it.

The only reason Iran is enriching uranium is because Trump tossed out the Obama-Iran treaty the minute he got into office.

This was all preventable.

Donald Trump ran for President promising to end wars, not start new ones. Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a new, dark chapter in his endless series of betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos. In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home. I am thinking of the New Yorkers with loved ones in harm’s way. While Donald Trump bears immediate responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace, and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within. For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known. We cannot accept it any longer.

My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.

45% of programming is thinking "what the fuck IS this shit"

This is the term we must use now, yes.

The best thing to have is enough.

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

Trump's brain is gone It really should be a bigger story.

New in PN: Trump's brain is gone

"Trump’s competence has always left a lot to be desired, but recent interviews show a president who’s no longer capable of even the veneer of mental acuity. Meanwhile, his party behaves like courtiers to a mad king."

Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

An Open Letter to John Lithgow: Please Walk Away From Harry Potter As someone who grew up Harry Potter and adored it, it's heartbreaking to admit, but the franchise has become synonymous with transphobia.

his friend is the mother of a trans person and linked him this open letter which explicitly lays out rowlings financial support of anti trans legislation, enabled fully by the harry potter franchise. Draw your own conclusions but its impossible to feign ignorance bookriot.com/open-letter-...