iPhone Launch Party: Upcoming Apps, and New Id Game for iPhone

[DHarrisDBS34]

Anything on price yet?

 

[Rat-Boy]

I suppose this will be a 3GS only app?

 

[HiRez]

When does this come out on Palm Pre? Ahhh....ohh right...WebOS...

 

[HiRez]

I suppose this will be a 3GS only app?

I assume it will support the older phones as the 3G S installed base will be quite small by comparison for a while (most people who want to upgrade have to wait for their contracts to "mature", for one thing). So it wouldn't make good financial sense for it to be 3G S only, it'll probably just run at a slower frame rate and with not quite as fancy effects on the older models.

 

[igazza]

i hate games that use the accelerometer

 

[Schtumple]

me too! Maybe Duke Nukem could be ported to iPhone too. So want!

I think it's in the works, the release date is around 2021.... or about 12 years from now

 

[The General]

i hate games that use the accelerometer

And what makes you think it uses the accelerometer?

 

[absolution]

anyone know the song in that trailer? it sounds like some god-awful tool ripoff.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. It's a knock-off of "Lateralus" by Tool.

 

[dalingrin]

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. It's a knock-off of "Lateralus" by Tool.

I believe that song is from the original Doom 3 soundtrack.
Definitely a Tool sound-alike

 

[The General]

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. It's a knock-off of "Lateralus" by Tool.

Nine Inch Nails' former drummer, Chris Vrenna, composed and performed the game's theme song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_3

It is the same chord progressing and a very similar rhythm to Lateralus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4

 

[wildcardd]

And what makes you think it uses the accelerometer?

It was quoted in the Macworld article.

Here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/141094/2009/06/doomresurrection.html?lsrc=rss_news

 

[Starflyer]

Will the Delicious Library app use the camera as a bar scanner same as the desktop version of the app?

 

[The General]

It was quoted in the Macworld article.

Here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/141094/2009/06/doomresurrection.html?lsrc=rss_news

Guh. It's going to be unplayable.

 

[thedarkhorse]

I haven't found a 3d iphone game that I can stand longer than 5 minutes and this doesn't look like it changes a thing. I don't know it just doesn't work for me as a gaming device, it's like the next step after online flash games.

 

[wildcardd]

I am wondering if it is a shooter on rails.

 

[hefeglass]

i just want worms to come out already...theyve been talking about it forever.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Is it just me or is the live stream a little..dry?

 

[Peace]

It's nada. LOL

 

[iMaggot]

Dude Doom 3 ?, hell yeah

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Finally up.


Ironically, Lydia is relatively hot

 

[The General]

Finally up.


Ironically, Lydia is relatively hot

Agreed.

Too bad the audio sucks. At first it was too loud and distorted, now it's phasing up and down quickly and on average too quiet.

 

[Eric5h5]

A question for any of you experts out there: What is it going to take to get some decent lighting in games designed for the iPod/iPhone?

This has what I consider decent lighting. However, it's computed once at the start of the game and doesn't change until a new game is started. It's possible to have realtime dynamic lighting, and some games do, but it takes CPU power that is often better spent on other things. The iPhone 3GS shouldn't have any problems with it though.

--Eric

 

[Riemann Zeta]

Looks like the Quake III engine with low-resolution textures. I'm not sure how the controls will work, but the demo video was pretty...has some kick ass potential. I can't imagine that they would limit it to iPhone 3GS models. I think developers will have to start coding two separate versions of graphical applications--one with old fixed-function OpenGL 1.1 calls and crappy textures, the other with shader-only code (OpenGL 2) and multitexturing.

Edit: oh, apparently it is not even built for OS 3.0.

 

[The General]

That Plasma app they just demoed is pretty lame. It looks nothing like a real plasma sphere and behaves nothing like a real plasma sphere... I'm pretty disappointed.

 

[AET10]

WOW! An app of one of those electric balls that you can push around the screen. *Yawn*

The real show is in the background crowd. Give a bunch of nerds that hardly see the light of day some free champagne and they turn into a mob of lurking creepers.