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October 20, 2009

Killer iPhone app

Ex-TV Executive Creates Way to Kill People for $1

Unemployment has not been easy for Paul Sherno. Since losing his job at WJLA-TV, the veteran TV executive has applied–with 60 other people–for a warehouse job (didn't get it), considered selling insurance (money was crap), and attempted to enlist in the Army (too old). [...]

It's enough to make a guy want to mete out some justice.

"'Shoot a banker' ran through my mind," Sherno says. "I'm not an inherently violent kind of guy, but a lot of people were angry."

Also, he had an iPhone.

So Assassin FPS, the first iPhone application from Sherno's one-man company which he runs out of his Silver Spring home, Differentium LLC, was sort of inevitable. The first-person shooter game uses the iPhone's built-in camera, but instead of shooting at computer-generated enemies, the target in Assassin FPS is whatever's in front of you. Once you've selected from weapons like an AK-47, a bazooka, a laser blaster, or even Nerf darts, the weapon and its crosshair appear over the objects—or people—in your viewfinder, and you can commence blowing them into the next realm.

Posted by joke du jour at October 20, 2009 06:05 PM

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