'The Incident' to Turn Paired iPad and iPhone Into TV-Focused Gaming System

[AlexFromJap]

Games on iPad?

OH my God!
Who wants to play game on a TV with a iPad trough a iPod touch controller?
No really is it serious?Who even publish this stupid crap?
Who is so idiot to do that?
Never heard about PS3,Wii,Xbox?I mean even a old PS have better games than a iPad for a very very cheap price!
I like Apple PCs but now we are touching the limit of intelligence with iPod.
Does the IQ of all Apple fans decreased so much?
Let's face the reality: iPod is nice , iPhone and iPad?Garbage made only to spill money to Apple fans, me included when I bought the iPhone3GS, fortunately I stop to use it for a better life with a Android mobile, but I will never try to use a Android device to play games on a TV is absurd!
Wake up Apple fan and give to mr. Jobs a kick in his ass, you wanna buy something rather than iPad?Airbook.

 

[CrackedButter]

Hey thats an great idea, but i think the iphone is not a good controler becouse you are not looking where the buttons are(which is not a problem when you play a game on the iPhone itself because you are looking at the screen anyway), no tactile response. It even shows on the demo he only used the iPhone's accelerometer to control the game. It would be awesome to pair the PS3 controler or to the ipad because it uses bluetooth technology.


THAT WOULD BE A WHOLE ANOTHER SHOW

The Incident doesn't have any buttons. You tilt and tap the screen, not a difficult game to play.

Other than that, i have to add that there is so much negativity towards these little type of innovations it's sickening, one reason why I don't want to post here so much.

 

[AlexFromJap]

It's not the game that matters... its the concept that does and is cool.

ALso, whoever said make it pair to a real controller is right on. Make it so you can pair to a PS3, Xbox or Wii controller and we're on the right track to a real game system. in 2-3 years, this will be more mature and Sony, MS and Nitendo should be very worried.

Ah Ah Ah! IQ here is really going down!
What makes you think that you can fit in a iPad, super controlled by mr Steve Jobs that you have to make a request to go to toilette, the necessary hardware to compete with Mr Sony?
And even if iPad will reach PS3 at that point there will be a PS4 or 5 far more advanced that this iGarbage.

 

[AlexFromJap]

It's awesome but funny at the same time:

Step 1: Buy Plasma TV
Step 2: Buy iPad
Step 3: Buy iPhone
Step 4: Buy games

Ta-dah!

But if you already have these then it's really cool actually

I have a better idea:
Step 1: Buy Plasma TV
Step 2: Buy a PS3
Step 3: Buy games
and you don't have to pay a monthly fee to a mobile network, and you can watch even Blu ray disks in HD and you will still have money to do a nice trip somewhere or buy other gadgets more useful than iPad and iPhone.

 

[onebitrocket]

This is a great start and a fine example of how we could get any of our iOS apps working on our tvs.

Whether it's using an iphone or ipad to an apple tv or a iphone to an ipad.

My preferred option would be the iphone to apple tv:
Step 1. Sync the apple tv capable apps i've bought from my computer to my apple tv. Or purchase apps right on a apple tv app store.

Step 2. Download the iphone or ipad controller app, which connects when launched connects both devices over airplay.

Optional: maybe if you have the app installed on both the apple tv and your iphone/ipad, the iphone could maybe launch a extension to whatever app/game your running, so you can have in effect two screens. Almost like a nintendo ds

Step 3. surf, play, email, whatever you can do on your ipad or iphone, you can now do on your apple tv.

Crosses fingers - not gonna hold my breath though

 

[unrealpatch]

Get a game console

This is way over the top.
Just buy a game console.
plug this pair that do this, please.
When games first came to the Mac there were no "real" game consoles.
There are now. No need to re invent the wheel

 

[mixel]

I think this is great personally.. The Incident is a fun little game anyway but I'd like to see more people doing stuff like this.

Lets just hope guys like them keep up the good tinkering and don't let the idiots get in the way of some fun and experimentation.

They aren't pitching this setup as a PS3 replacement. A lot of people have the parts necessary around already.

 

[whooleytoo]

sounds like something better suited for an appletv than an ipad.

Absolutely. It's a bit of an awkward solution as-is; but an iPhone/iTouch controller for the AppleTV would be great.

For those who see this as re-inventing the wheel - which of the 360, PS3, or Wii have 100,000+ games available at a typical price of 79c (euro)? ....that's what I thought.

 

[hayesk]

OH my God!
Who wants to play game on a TV with a iPad trough a iPod touch controller?
No really is it serious?Who even publish this stupid crap?
Who is so idiot to do that?
Never heard about PS3,Wii,Xbox?I mean even a old PS have better games than a iPad for a very very cheap price!
I like Apple PCs but now we are touching the limit of intelligence with iPod.
Does the IQ of all Apple fans decreased so much?
Let's face the reality: iPod is nice , iPhone and iPad?Garbage made only to spill money to Apple fans, me included when I bought the iPhone3GS, fortunately I stop to use it for a better life with a Android mobile, but I will never try to use a Android device to play games on a TV is absurd!
Wake up Apple fan and give to mr. Jobs a kick in his ass, you wanna buy something rather than iPad?Airbook.

Tell us how you really feel. Seriously, you can say it's stupid all you want, but you really haven't justified why it is stupid. You don't seriously think that anyone expects you to go buy an iPad and iPhone for the sole purpose of playing this one game? If you have an iPad and iPhone, why the heck is it so stupid to connect it to a TV?

Have you ever played The Legend of Zelda:Four Swords on a GameCube with GameBoy Advance SP's connected as the controllers? It was a fantastic game - the great part of this game is that all the players played semi-cooperatively on the TV, but if one character went into a cave, or somewhere else, only the player can see what's going on in the cave by looking on the GameBoy screen that is the controller. The other players had no idea what he was up to because they couldn't see.

Having a controller with a screen opens up a lot of gaming potential. Already I can think of a lot of good uses for this setup:
- football game where the players can secretly select plays on their iPhone controller
- scrabble
- card games
- board style games where each player has secret "cards" or other items
- It's not just for secrecy either - action games where a player can separate from the rest of the pack without the TV having to go into a split-screen mode (or a player "dropping off the edge") are now possible.

Or, you could just call everyone stupid for even trying a new way to play games. Sony and Microsoft tried to make fun of the Wii too, referring to it as "waggling" and are now chomping at the bit to sell Kinect and Play to emulate the Wii's success.

 

[hayesk]

This is way over the top.
Just buy a game console.
plug this pair that do this, please.
When games first came to the Mac there were no "real" game consoles.
There are now. No need to re invent the wheel

Sorry, what console has game controllers with screens on them? Can you not see the potential of this?

 

[iSee]

This falls into the category of things where it's gee-whiz-neato to connect your various gadgets together in some way, but doesn't really make a lot of sense.

E.g., if what you're really after is good games and gameplay on your TV, there are a few console systems available...

It would make a bit more sense with Apple TV.

 

[Tonepoet]

I can see this implementation being interesting for people who already have both an iPhone and an iPad already. However they're such redundant devices that I have a rather hard time seeing many people being able to justify having both. I know if I had an iPad I was carrying around with me and figured "Hey, y'know what? I want a cell phone too." I'd probably just get a regular cell phone, since the iPad covers just about every other iPhone function, except being able to fit in your pants pocket. If that was the more important feature though, I'd probably not want an iPad to begin with.

Questions: How huge has our aversions to wires grown since the prior video game console generation, that we can't simply use the iPad itself as the controller? While it is bigger than the iPhone, it is designed to be somewhat of a handheld device already?

Sorry, what console has game controllers with screens on them? Can you not see the potential of this?

Well there was the Sega Dreamcast, which had a screen in the Virtual Memory Unit that you inserted into the controller. Like many Sega firsts, it was poorly implemented and woefully underutilized though. Following that came the Gamecube, which could use the Gameboy Advanced as a controller at least for Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. Pretty nifty trick that allowed you to have a dedicated map with radar overlay. I'm not sure if the Wii can follow suit with the DS or not though, since I have neither.

These implementations make plenty more sense in my opinion since each device has more independent value. The V.M.U. was necessary for saving games and both the V.M.U and Gameboy Advanced could be used for portable entertainment, while the main consoles both provided a level of power that was once only feasible in a considerably larger home appliance. As others have suggested before this idea would be more useful if we could use less redundant interface devices of a more sedentary nature. Preferably ones liable to rest near our televisions already, such as an apple TV or a Mac Mini. As it is, it's merely a novelty with some moderate potential.

 

[daccattato]

Brass Monkey SDK

While this is an example of two devices communicating with each other, there is an SDK that allows for endpoint to endpoint communication which developers can use to build similar experiences (www.brassmonkeysdk.com). In addition, Star Wars Trench Run (brass monkey enabled) allows for such an experience by turning the iphone game into a controller when you visit the same online browser based game. It's a in app purchase. After you've purchased the controller, you can then visit the game on Star Wars (http://www.starwars.com/games/playnow/trench_run/). The device will pair to the browser game and voila! Also a demo & review by Chris Pirillo (http://chris.pirillo.com/the-best-star-wars-video-game-ever/). More experiences like this are on the way. cheers!

 

[swagi]

Absolutely. It's a bit of an awkward solution as-is; but an iPhone/iTouch controller for the AppleTV would be great.

For those who see this as re-inventing the wheel - which of the 360, PS3, or Wii have 100,000+ games available at a typical price of 79c (euro)? ....that's what I thought.

I'm sorry, but this awkward statements just asks for the following:

And which of these 79c games offers the depth and story quality of titles like Red Dead Redemption, Bioshock, InFamous, God of War, Legend of Zelda?

...yeah, that's what I thought.

 

[zelman]

If they wanted it to be just like a console, you should need to blow into the iPad mic for like 20 minutes before the app would start.


...oh, 25 years late on that joke? my bad.

 

[AlexFromJap]

Tell us how you really feel. Seriously, you can say it's stupid all you want, but you really haven't justified why it is stupid. You don't seriously think that anyone expects you to go buy an iPad and iPhone for the sole purpose of playing this one game? If you have an iPad and iPhone, why the heck is it so stupid to connect it to a TV?

Have you ever played The Legend of Zelda:Four Swords on a GameCube with GameBoy Advance SP's connected as the controllers? It was a fantastic game - the great part of this game is that all the players played semi-cooperatively on the TV, but if one character went into a cave, or somewhere else, only the player can see what's going on in the cave by looking on the GameBoy screen that is the controller. The other players had no idea what he was up to because they couldn't see.

Having a controller with a screen opens up a lot of gaming potential. Already I can think of a lot of good uses for this setup:
- football game where the players can secretly select plays on their iPhone controller
- scrabble
- card games
- board style games where each player has secret "cards" or other items
- It's not just for secrecy either - action games where a player can separate from the rest of the pack without the TV having to go into a split-screen mode (or a player "dropping off the edge") are now possible.

Or, you could just call everyone stupid for even trying a new way to play games. Sony and Microsoft tried to make fun of the Wii too, referring to it as "waggling" and are now chomping at the bit to sell Kinect and Play to emulate the Wii's success.

See?The IQ is not totally went down here, you already answered to why is so stupid to use iPad and iPod for gaming: it's plenty of consoles that already do that in a more far advanced way,when Apple will reach the same level they will be already surclassed by Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.

 

[whooleytoo]

I'm sorry, but this awkward statements just asks for the following:

And which of these 79c games offers the depth and story quality of titles like Red Dead Redemption, Bioshock, InFamous, God of War, Legend of Zelda?

...yeah, that's what I thought.

They don't need to. If you want to pay 50 euros and play Red Dead Redemption/Zelda, great, buy a PS3/360/Wii.

If you want to pay 79c and play casual games, great, you could (potentially) play on a iPhone & iPad (or ideally: iPhone and AppleTV).

It's a new, casual games model; and it's one that could appeal to a LOT of people. It doesn't replace those games you mentioned, it offers new choices. It's certainly isn't just the same-old, same-old.

 

[ghost84]

Airplay Games

I'd love to see Apple TV compatible games, like Universal Apps, that can be controlled from an iPad or iPhone and streamed on to the Apple TV. I've always dreamed of taking my console games with me in some sort of portable fashion, and this would actually let you take your console gaming with you wherever you go. Imagine playing Hero of Sparta 3 on your big screen TV, then having to leave and just being able to take that exact same game, in the exact same spot, with you wherever you went. When you got home, you hit a button and it shoots back to your TV. I'm pretty sure Apple would take an even bigger hit out of the portable market, and actually make the Apple TV a console competitor too, redeeming itself from that embarrassing Pippin incident of '95/'96.