{"id":88404,"date":"2016-04-27T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=88404"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:58:55","slug":"the-latest-iphone-craze-and-you-dont-even-have-to-unlock-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-latest-iphone-craze-and-you-dont-even-have-to-unlock-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest iPhone craze (and you don&#8217;t even have to unlock the screen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t know who <strong>Steve the Jumping Dinosaur<\/strong> is, then the chances are that you\u2019ve probably been living under a rock for the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>This new highly-addictive<strong> iPhone<\/strong> game has one special feature that makes it different to the other games \u2013 you don\u2019t have to unlock the screen in order to play it. Yes, you read correctly \u2013 this game is played from the Notification Center on your iPhone lock-screen.<\/p>\n<p>The game was created by 23-year-old developer<strong> Ivan De Cabo<\/strong>, who apparently made the game in just one weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wanted to do a simple game just to improve my code skills and decided to do so in the Notification Center for two reasons: to\u00a0challenge myself and to see if it was possible!\u201d says De Cabo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/technology\/2016\/04\/27\/stevedino-large_trans++qVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg\" alt=\"Steve the dinosaur\u00a0\" width=\"490\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the game is to get \u201cSteve\u201d to jump over as many obstacle cacti as possible (think <strong>Flappy Bird<\/strong> on the ground). The game was apparently inspired by the <strong>Google Chrome easter egg<\/strong>, which allows you to play a versin of the game even when\u00a0<strong><\/strong> isn\u2019t connected to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Have you tried it yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t know who Steve the Jumping Dinosaur is, then the chances are that you\u2019ve probably been living under a rock for the last few days. This new highly-addictive iPhone game has one special feature that makes it different to the other games \u2013 you don\u2019t have to unlock the screen in order to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-latest-iphone-craze-and-you-dont-even-have-to-unlock-the-screen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The latest iPhone craze (and you don&#8217;t even have to unlock the screen)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":88410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-88404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329029,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88404\/revisions\/329029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88404"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=88404"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=88404"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=88404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}