OpenFeint is best described as Steam or Xbox LIVE, but for your iPhone. Developed by the crew at Aurora Feint, the OpenFeint gaming platform joins mobile gamers together with forums, scoreboards and classic social networking tools (Friends lists, messaging, etc). OpenFeint boasts millions of users (of which at least one is me, and another is a Mr. Citron.) and over 1000 games attached to it. Once a profile has been created, you have full access to all of the program’s features. Much like Steam, OpenFeint gives access to games that are OF enabled in the App Store, even going so far as to offer one game that you’d normally have to pay for, free for a day.
While many games have achievements these days, OpenFeint works like Xbox LIVE, Windows LIVE and Steam in that any games that are OF enabled and have achievements, run them through OpenFeint. Achievements count towards your OF score. All your gameplay stats are displayed on your profile for anyone to see.
While OpenFeint has it’s own management program (which you can get here, for free), you don’t need it. Any OF game will let you access game specific OpenFeint information, as well as access to your profile.
It’s an interesting program that has quite a few games attached to it, which you can recognize most games with OpenFeint software by the dual leaf logo sitting on the game’s icon, such as that on Texas Tea’s icon.
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