Unofficial iPhone Game Demos Unique Possibilities

OoO *ogles*

Cmon' baby! Get me some Games!:D

Very cool! A small reminder of all the untapped potential of the iPhone.

yep. it'll be very interesting once developers get their hands on a full SDK.

Another concept game that someone mocked up a while back to use multitouch on the iPhone:

http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/01/17/finger-fracture-game-concept/

looks cool! i'd play it :)

Just give me chess where I can move the pieces and I am set ;)

It's interesting, Apple's attitude towards games.

We have heard from many developers that they seem to have a totally laissez faire attitude to games on the Mac but they seem to have slightly more interest in iPod games. With the iPhone there's a device in many, many pockets and the games market could be - in fact should be - huge.

It might be interesting if they followed Microsoft's lead here - they recently announce that games developed for the Xbox 360 can easily be transferred to the Zune - http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/20/gdc08-xna-games-coming-to-zune/

Gaming is a bigger and bigger market and Apple should not overlook the potential goldmine here.

That game look awesome! Can't wait to get my hands on it ;-)

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but Quake was running on a phone with an Android OS. The phone is only 300mhz (compared to the iPhone's 600mhz). Android is everything Google promised it'll be.

Check out the BBC video below:

http://www.gsmarena.com/android_os_shows_new_tricks-news-446.php

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but Quake was running on a phone with an Android OS. The phone is only 300mhz (compared to the iPhone's 600mhz). Android is everything Google promised it'll be.

Check out the BBC video below:

http://www.gsmarena.com/android_os_shows_new_tricks-news-446.php

I fail to see the point. The demo was menu to assume that the SDK could possibly handle the full multi-touch and acceleromer of the iPhone. Other phones could run a huge amount of apps. My old phone can open a ssh client.

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but Quake was running on a phone with an Android OS. The phone is only 300mhz (compared to the iPhone's 600mhz). Android is everything Google promised it'll be.

Check out the BBC video below:

http://www.gsmarena.com/android_os_shows_new_tricks-news-446.php

Please don't make Android the Ron Paul of iPod/iPhone news. I mean... its pretty nice but read the title of this thread: "Unofficial iPhone Game Demos Unique Possibilites". Android is an OS, and if you watch the video you linked to, you'll notice that the phone demoed is a "reference design" with a 3d-chip and 3G support and not simply a phone that's on the market and available to pick-up today for a specific amount of money. --Meaning, the value-proposition is a bit muddy... and the feature-set for the Android platform is going to always be unclear (given the universality of the platform).

Conversely, as the title of this thread implies... the iPhone/iPod Touch platform has a unique feature-set SHARED by all of the units going out. So, when you see a game being demoed, you know it represents something NEW that YOU can do with your EXISTING iPhone or iPod Touch. Like the unfolding of an onion, or like purchasing a new device every month. The phone simply isn't being used to its potential, despite the current degree of customer satisfaction. :eek:

I was remarking to my mother today, that anyone could by an iPod Touch for $300, because anytime she wants to go on the Internet, sometimes its a pain to go turn on the computer. I agree that games like this represent the future. I'm a little saddened to think a full-scale "patent-war" might break out over it, but I understand the thrill and value of coming up with a new idea, and being properl compensated.

So, again... don't "Ron Paul" iPhone news with unrelated Android stuff! I certainly can't wait for games like Quake to come to iPhone either, but since it already runs on Linux, I somehow don't running it on Android would take much effort.

~ CB

P.S. Welcome to the forum. Better luck with your second post.