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Carmack to Bring "Graphical Tour de Force" to the iPhone

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the mmo-on-the-iphone-for-complete-loss-of-productivity dept.

Apparently developer John Carmack loves his iPhone and is still kicking himself for not having something ready to go at launch time. However, he has announced plans to bring a "graphical tour de force" to Apple's popular device. "But as for which one, the company isn't saying just yet, though given that the recently launched id Mobile division already has Doom RPG and the forthcoming Wolfenstein RPG to its credit, we wouldn't be at all surprised if Carmack will bring Quake or some flavor of Rage to the small screen as well. What's more, he's apparently considering the idea of tackling the MMO market on the iPhone down the line, though he admits that he's being 'conservative' and doesn't 'want to be in a bet-the-company situation' just yet."

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  1. I don't see FPS being that fun with out a buttons by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't see FPS being that fun with out a buttons. A RTS / TBS may work good but not MMO / FPS / driving games.

    heroes of might and magic type games should work fine.

  2. What I'd like to see. by AltGrendel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can you imagine using the iPhone camera to capture the environment that you're in, like a street in NYC, and using that as a real time background for a FPS? It would put something like zombies in the image and real people in the image would be "hostages" that you need to protect or save.

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    The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination

    - Douglas Adams

    1. Re:What I'd like to see. by InfinityWpi · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I had a game like that for my Treo 650 called Arcade Reality. It was a FPS (First-Person Space) game, like Star Raiders (god, I just dated myself, didn't I) that used the camera as a) a backdrop for the ships flying at you that you needed to shoot and b) to determine what direction you were moving in, since the phone didn't have one of those new-fangled accelerometers which are all the rage with you kids these days. Nifty bit of coding, that camera-used-to-sense-motion bit.

      Fun game, too. Got me some funny looks tho.