Amaya Toman Although the Apple Watch is primarily used for fitness and health purposes, you can also play games on it. A number of iOS games offer their version for the watchOS operating system, they even come in handy fans of the fashion brand Hermès. However, some could get an idea of how the games will look on the display of Apple's smart watch a few months before their first generation hit the store shelves.
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This is because Apple has also made its WatchKit API available to third-party app developers. One of them – gaming company NimbleBit – has come up with a virtual mockup of its emerging simple word game called Letterpad. Screenshots of the game on the screen of Apple's smartwatch went around the world, and users suddenly wanted to play games on their wrist.
The launch of the Apple Watch sparked a literal gold rush among many iOS developers, and almost all of them wanted to get their products into the watchOS operating system as well. They all wanted users to be able to download watchOS versions of their favorite apps the moment they first unboxed and turned on their watch.
Apple released its WatchKit API for the Apple Watch alongside iOS 8.2 in November, and along with its release, it also launched a website dedicated to WatchKit. On it, developers could find everything they needed to build watchOS apps, including instructional videos.
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Bringing games to Apple Watch displays was a no-brainer for many developers, just as for many users, games were among the first items they downloaded to their new watches. In its early days, the iOS App Store was a real gold mine for many game developers - a twenty-eight-year-old programmer named Steve Demeter earned $250 in a few months thanks to the game Trism, the game iShoot even earned its creators $600 in a single month. But there was one apparent obstacle with the Apple Watch – the size of the display.
The creators of Letterpad coped with this limitation quite brilliantly - they created a simple grid for nine letters, and players in the game had to compose words on a specific topic. The minimalistic version of the Letterpad game has given many developers inspiration and hope that their games will also succeed in the environment of the watchOS operating system.
Of course, even today there are users who like to pass the time by playing games on the display of their Apple Watch, but there are not too many of them. In short, games never really found their way to watchOS in the end. It makes sense in some ways - the Apple Watch was not designed for constant user interaction with the watch, rather the opposite - it was meant to save time and reduce the amount of time users spend staring at the display.
Do you play games on Apple Watch? Which one did you like the most?
Source: Cult of Mac
