History
MapleStory Thief Edition is a single-player, side-scrolling role-playing game for the iPhone and iPod touch, set in the world of the online game MapleStory. The player is always Robin, a Thief who later chooses between the Assassin and Bandit branches, and the story runs through a short opening and three chapters in and around Kerning City, Perion, Henesys, Orbis, El Nath, and Magatia.
Publisher and developer
- Bundle. The app's identifier is
com.nexonmobile.maplestory.thief, and its purchase products and Game Center leaderboard use the same prefix (ANALYSIS.md). - In the game. The About screen sends support questions to a page of Nexon America's MapleStory site and lists the homepages of Nexon Mobile and Nexon America. The copyright line under the main menu is an image (
MainMenuCopyRight.png) that names NEXON Korea Corp. and NEXON America Inc., with the year 2012. The launch image (Default.png) shows the Nexon logo. See Credits. - Developer. No file names a studio. Pocket Gamer lists the developer as Nexon (Pocket Gamer game page).
- Origins. The engine is a port of a Korean feature-phone game. Its game logic speaks phone keypad codes, a Clet lifecycle drives it, and the purchase server and the dead portal menu items are leftovers of the WIPI version (re/program-flow.md, re/network.md). This is read from the code; no outside source was found for the feature-phone release.
Releases
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-08-16 | TouchArcade reports the game's arrival on the App Store as a single-player MapleStory game | TouchArcade |
| 2010-09-15 | Pocket Gamer reports a limited-time price of $2.99 (1.79 GBP, 2.39 EUR) | Pocket Gamer |
| 2012 or later | Version 1.5, the version the port reads, is built (probable, from the copyright year in its main menu image and the Xcode 4.2 build tools) | the game's files |
No source was found for the date the game left sale. The compendium states no end-of-sale date until one turns up.
Versions
- Version 1.5.
Info.plistgivesCFBundleVersion1.5 and no short version string. - Version badges. The main menu shows the badge image
v1.0.5.png. The bundle also holdsv1.0.0.png(inEnglish.lproj) andv1.0.1.pngtov1.0.9.png(at the root), which nothing in the code names. They are probably the badges of earlier and later builds left in the project (Unused content). - The build. Xcode 4.2 with the iOS 5.0 SDK on Mac OS X 10.6.8, with llvm-gcc 4.2. The binary has an armv6 and an armv7 slice.
Platforms
- Devices: iPhone and iPod touch only (
UIDeviceFamily1), landscape only. - System: iPhone OS 3.1.2 and later; it supports multitasking from iOS 4.
- Languages: English and Korean, chosen by the device's language (Localization).
- Today: this project, the MapleThief port, rebuilds the game from a player's own copy for macOS, Windows, iOS, and Linux (the port on GitHub).