First Person Shooter Game on iPod Video?

Website Cyboid.com claims to offer a first-person 3D iPod shooter game. "Cyboid is a high-speed, full 3D, first-person shooter that runs on iPod, mobile phones and GBA," they write on the YouTube video description page. "We're a tiny startup (as in two people here!) that developed a game called Cyboid 3D over the past few years." There's no description yet on how the product was developed, what tools were used or how they reverse engineered the process--which are, of course, the really interesting questions in this case beside the obvious "Is this real?"

Of course, if real, I can't wait to play it!

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFKwXyhDr7U

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Website Cyboid.com claims to offer a first-person 3D iPod shooter game. "Cyboid is a high-speed, full 3D, first-person shooter that runs...

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BTecDev

Erica,

Contact us (beta at bobbeetec) and we'll add you to the beta group -- you need an iPod Video (obviously).

Dev.
Bobbee Tec, llc.

January 28 2007 at 12:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Simon Roby

Rockbox (www.rockbox.org) comes with Doom. It runs fairly well, but the limited iPod controls make it unplayable.

January 26 2007 at 1:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Paul

Not a port of the Quake engine, I don't think. It looks more to me like a ported version of Sauerbraten (http://sauerbraten.org/)

January 25 2007 at 11:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chris

Matt, you've obviously never had Linux on an ipod before. You have to re-boot it and start it up in Linux. It's a different operating system and I don't think that Apple would've liked crossing over between two OS's easy. BTW, the menu's color scheme and font were the same as a standard ipod's.

January 25 2007 at 7:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

shrimp

This could be just a video playing fullscreen on an iPod, not a real iPod game .. or it could be iPod Linux like matt sugested,

Either way, this seems very unreliable. Crappy video quality, questionable iPod interface.

January 25 2007 at 6:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

if you watch the video, you can see that their ipod's font is different, and that the color scheme is off. It's ipod linux.

January 25 2007 at 6:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

icruise

As much as I love my iPod, it sucks as a gaming device. The scroll wheel is great for its intended purpose, but it's just not good for games.

January 25 2007 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tim fitz

Doesn't it look kind of a lot like Quake?

Maybe someone hacked the Quake engine to run on these devices, much like the Doom engine has been similarly hacked.

January 25 2007 at 5:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

I just don't see the need to play a FPS on an iPod. Stick with a portable device like a PSP or a DS that can simulate movement that's realistic. That video clearly showed how awkward moving around a 3D is with a simple click-wheel.

I truly think that this all-in-one device evolution is being grossly overstated and hyped. Technology needs to advance leaps and bounds for me to throw away my iPod, DS, and Treo for an all-one-device, without sacrificing too much. Sure the iPhone is intriguing, but 8GB? Come on, one third of my music/movie/tv collection won't fit on that.

The power source on my 360 could easily fry an egg, but it certainly isn't more efficient or accessible than a frying pan.

January 25 2007 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply