John Haney Software

Cintos

A strategy/logic game I invented. Up to 4 people can play. Shipped for Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, and iPhone.

Year
1998–2002
Status
released

Cintos 1.0 (1998, Mac OS Classic)

A strategy/logic game I invented. Up to 4 people can play.

— from johnhaney.com, March 2001

The 2001 site mentioned plans for Cintos 2.0 (save game, undo, alternate splits for two-player games, computer-speed option, win/lose splash screens), Cintos 3.0 ("smart" computer opponents, custom-board feature), and Cintos 2000 (16×16 board, neutral and claimable territory, new "Cintos" pieces). None of those shipped on Mac OS Classic.

Cintos 2.1 (2002, Mac OS X)

When Mac OS X started taking over, I rewrote Cintos as a native Cocoa application — top-down board, built-in tutorial, PowerPC binary. This is the version that's archived on Macintosh Garden today.

Cintos 2.1 running on Mac OS X — top-down board view

Cintos Mobile (2007, web)

After Mac OS X, the iPhone arrived — and I built Cintos Mobile as a web app, since the iPhone shipped before the App Store and before any native SDK existed. It's restored and playable at /cintosmobile/.

Background on how it came together (and why a web app was the iPhone development path at the time): My first iPhone app was a web app.

Cintos for iPhone (native)

After the App Store opened, I made a native iPhone version of Cintos with proper 2- and 4-player support — pass-and-play around a single device.

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