Yeah, it's not just the program code's license. You'd also have to get all the other artists who aided in creating the game to sign off on the idea too. And even if you accomplished that, if the original development team is no longer available, you have to pay somebody to learn the code to remove the DRM and simply making the game open source or free wouldn't justify that cost.

And at only a few bucks I consider most of these very inexpensive or free mobile apps akin to rentware anyway.

The games are gone, time to move on to newer games.

Just like Audio Quake and other similar games.

Audio Quake itself is free, but you have to buy the original Quake game because the developers of Audio Quake don't have a license to distribute any of the resources from the original Quake that Audio Quake uses.

I never knew that about that song, but I think that what he did shows that he had a lot of respect and consideration for those families and applaud what he did.

It wouldn't surprise me if those families also get a portion of any royalties the song generates.

Hi all,
I contacted somethinElse, they replied me in a few mails, why they stopped the development.
They didn't want share the source code, when asked, if they can provide me the ipa file, they replied, that not possible, because they don't have any developers team. Recommended me, contact apple.
I did it, explainet the situation they promised to do the best and if it will be interesting, they can take care of development game.
But still question, is there somebody who is having the latest ipa files of their games? I think, that we will need it. If yes don't write any comments here, but write me a private message please.
Thank you in advance.

The games are gone just as many other audio games have also disappeared. Get over it and move on.

So Somethin Else never added 64 bit support to their games? Wasn't that a requirement for new apps for a long time?

It seems every so often, we lose another audio game. As small as the library is, it kinda feels sad to me. I'm at least a little bummed when any game I used to like goes away, even if it's something really stupid that nobody in their right mind would think to play now that supposedly better games are out. Yeah we knew it would come to this long ago, SomethinElse kept putting it out that each iteration of IOS was making things harder and sooner or later they'd just have to quit. But a blunt "get over it and move on" doesn't seem very encouraging in this small community, even if, as repeatedly stated, it's all you can do in this case.

Also something else I should mention: The sounds to these games are visible if you downloaded an IPA back when the apps were still being sold. You can download IPA files through ITunes, extract them with 7zip and the sounds are right there, no illegal hacking knowledge needed. You can't get IPA files for the games anymore, and if you could I really have no clue how well they'd work, so that's probably why they were pulled from purchases. It strikes me as a little odd that, as damn good as their audio is, it wasn't kept a little more safe. If the sounds were wide open, what else was too? That thought scares me a little bit if I were trying to think from a developer standpoint, and is something worth thinking about when you decide to develop an audio game. How easy is it for people to obtain your assets? Could someone reengineer your game? In the case of SomethinElse I doubt it, though the sounds is over half the assets right there. I do hope if they ever make games again, and I reeeally still hope they do, that they at least have better protection and can somehow... establish better marketting, since I think that was an ongoing struggle for them. Getting enough funding for the games. I know nothing about doing these things, so I can't blame them for having the struggles they did. I probably wouldn't have done 10 percent the work they did if I were trying to do it myself, so I'm not trying to say they did anything wrong.

And about 64 bit, interesting is, that Papasangre 2 is nto possible to play in ios 11, but papasangre 1 with small tricks yes, same is with the audio defence.

I suspect that with the advent of iOS 11 and the dropping of 32 bit support, that we'll see a number of 32 bit apps disappear from the app store, especially if they haven't been updated in a while.

If you have an older iPhone that won't be able to run iOS 11, and are not planning to upgrade, you should probably grab those apps you want now before they disappear.

Yeah. Merek2000 I'd let this be a lesson, as much as it sucks to admit it, companies can pull the switch on your purchases if they so choose. Amazon's done it before, believe me. The most infamous incident involved a copy of the book 1984 I believe. People who purchased it suddenly saw the book disappear from their device and an apology from Amazon. All this happened without warning. The Free Software Foundation, whom now that I've seen them in a better light I'm not entirely supportive of some of their somewhat extremist anti-proprietary views, released a statement basically saying, here's just one more example of how much control companies really have over licensed material. They were right to point that out, but what they failed to consider was the statement that Amazon released, stating the very reason for the removal of the book as an unauthorized reproduction of an otherwise non-public domain work. The difference between Amazon and Apple, is that if memory serves, Amazon refunded. Apple didn't.

Why I can have cracked ipa, if I bought the game?
With cracked, you don't know, what you take to the phone.
Not this is not the way. For me appel should left it in the ios for older devices, for example 4s will stay on 9.3.5 ios and there I can run all the 32 bits apps, which I love.
But how it looks, nobody is having the ipa files. They could be extracted from the phone, when go to the iTunes, find the app in the phone and by clicking right mouse button will save, but I didn't saw anybody with the installed games at this time.