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Multimodal, Multitouch Gaming Gaining Traction
andylim writes "Several universities and commercial entities are developing multimodal, multitouch games, such as a card game using iPhones for individual hands and an iPad for public information, and an iPad Scrabble game that lets you use your iPhone to see your letter tiles. Of course, it's an extremely expensive setup right now, but over time it will become cheaper. It's also pretty cool, so why wouldn't you want to play board/card/strategy games like this?"
Uhh, because I don't need to charge a board game? And so that if my board game runs out of batteries I still have a usable phone? And because a physical board game can be larger than an iPad so everyone doesn't have to crowd around it? There are countless reasons.
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Fair question.
I just spent the past 2 hours playing with a new iPad.
I think the gaming potential is going to be phenomenal.
Stratergy, a pretty good Risk-type game with random hex boards was ported over day one from the iphone, and it looks great.
There's now an online option, but I see sitting at a table with the iPad between players as the way games like this will be played.
(Wipe the cheesy-poofs from your fingers, rob.)
In cases where you need to keep something secret in the game, yes, individual devices or iphones to hold your cards is OK, but that's going to happen after the wave of "sharable" games. Checkers, chess, D&D, Monopoly, Risk. That stuff will happen right away.
omg! right clicking is such a great feature now!
dumbass.
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