Remember my five tips for iPhone game developers? This guy has definitely followed parts 2, 3, and 4.
I suspect that he’s paid attention to numbers 1 and 5 as well. It looks like a damn cool evolution of some popular casual games. Check out this video:
Also, I’m not sure what he’s patenting.
I’ll be severely disappointed if the US patent office calls “using an accelerometer to determine game orientation” a non-obvious development.