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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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Mike said 4:52PM on 1-25-2007
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.
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tim fitz said 5:49PM on 1-25-2007
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.
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icruise said 5:53PM on 1-25-2007
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.
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matt said 6:13PM on 1-25-2007
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.
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shrimp said 7:07PM on 1-25-2007
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.
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chris said 7:34PM on 1-25-2007
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.
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Paul said 11:31PM on 1-25-2007
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/)
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Simon Roby said 1:33AM on 1-26-2007
Rockbox (www.rockbox.org) comes with Doom. It runs fairly well, but the limited iPod controls make it unplayable.
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BTecDev said 12:34PM on 1-28-2007
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.
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