I'm not an iPhone owner, and even though I know it's not true, it seems to me like everyone else in the world is. I'm not bitter, just a little skeptical, but I digress, uh, kind of...

There has been a little chatter about game development opportunities on the iPhone for a while, but one game that apparently has moved beyond the chatter and is definitely going to make it to the small screen is a title based on Showtime's murderous hit Dexter. I know that pop will continually eat itself and so I shouldn't necessarily throw hissy fits when mediums cross breed, but I can't help it. Maybe it's that all our best minds are occupied with technical nuts and bolts, i.e. making the iPhone work; maybe we are all just too busy consuming media, i.e. lining up to buy the iPhone; or maybe there really may not be any no new ideas to be had. (please forget that I said that last one, or all three is you so choose). I just hate the constant recycling of ideas in popular media.

As for Dexter, I actually love the show and watched the first two seasons religiously. That's why I was a bit nervous when it went on hiatus a good while back, shortly after resurfacing in reruns on CBS. I thought to myself, "Now, what are they up to?" Why would they ruin a fantastic premise by bringing it to network TV? What would happen to the dark humor and of course the blood?? Then again that's probably what fans of Jeff Lindsay's book Darkly Dreaming Dexter thought when it was adapted for TV. That said, it may very well be that my gripe is misplaced. I mean would it have been any different if the Dexter game were to have ended up on one/all of the gaming consoles as was originally thought and like what happened to LOST? Probably not. Regardless, the plans for the iPhone game as laid out by Mark Ecko at Comic-Con are that players will reportedly use gesture controls, text messaging and phone calls to interact within the “Dexter experience" and the game will be played out episodically on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There are no other details that I know of.

So in the end what am I crying about? Maybe nothing. I guess we'll see. I just don't want to see a good piece of work bastardized, unless of course I'm in on it. Surprisingly, in the end the game may be a good thing. I've never been much of an early adopter, but I do know enough of them so that I may be able to try the game out on their new toy. Hmmmm. I feel my skepticism draining away like the life blood of a Miami hoodlum.

--Hobson's Choice

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