iPhone Assassin (and 100 other iPhone games)

Reader Silver sent us his site of iPhone games, basically just a big linklist of online web games for the iPhone. There are buttons there for voting and "favorites," but I couldn't get them to work. Still, if you're looking for a big lineup of what's out there to play, there you go.

And on that list, I found a pretty cool "game" that I'd never heard of before called iPhone Assassin. The concept is pretty interesting– basically, you sign up on the web to play, and then whenever you see someone in real life with an iPhone, you call out that you've "killed" them, and then on the site, it tracks how many kills have been made and who's still alive.

Now, yes, it does occur to me that while the idea may sound good in theory, the execution (pardon the pun) leaves a little bit to be desired– I do agree that most iPhone owners probably don't want maniacs running at them yelling about a kill. And yes, it's probably true that not many iPhone owners have actually seen this game yet, and so there are probably way too few people in on the joke– more often than not, you'd have to explain the whole thing to anyone you assaulted on the street, and even more likely, they probably wouldn't be amused.

Still, for the easily amused like myself, the idea seems really fun. If they come up with a way to make it a little more secret (maybe a special phrase that you could drop), and a little more automatic (although I have no idea how they'd do that– can you make iPhones "see" each other over WiFi or Bluetooth?), a real-life iPhone scavenger hunt might be fun.