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Sunset: an FPS RPG for the iPhone
This is the last thing I expected to see a day before Jobs is (hopefully) destined to reveal what can be done with the iPhone SDK, but nevertheless here it is. Donald Hays sent us a link to "Sunset," which is a game he wrote for the iPhone. I was skeptical when he described it as "a 3D RPG," because this is the iPhone we're talking about -- the thing can't even run Flash -- but lo and behold, that's exactly what it is. The graphics are homemade (he says he been working on the game since August of '07), and the genre conventions are many (it's an RPG in the old Dungeons of Daggorath style), so you run around, kill stuff, complete objectives, and level up), but in this case it's not the game that's so amazing, but where and how you're playing it.Seriously -- go to Donald's site on your iPhone and give it a look yourself. The game's even got an inventory system and a save system built into it. Very impressive work.
Update: Donald has also written up a postmortem of making the game. The first answer to the question in your mind: it's mostly Javascript, and yes, it sounds like a hell of a lot of crazy coding. The end project is pretty incredible, though.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
x999x said 8:10PM on 1-14-2008
Very impressive. The artwork adds to the charm of this game. As for gameplay, imagine a MUD with graphics, that's what I picture this as.
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required said 8:14PM on 1-14-2008
works on my PSP. by the way, I had no idea the iPhone couldn't run flash, the PSP can, here are some examples: http://www.psponme.com/list_psp.asp
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(01) said 8:30PM on 1-14-2008
I just started, and it's pretty damn impressive. Any word on how the game actually runs? I know no flash, but...
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Eidgenosse said 8:41PM on 1-14-2008
This is sooo cool. I think it's the best webapp after the modified google page. haha
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Donald Hays said 9:13PM on 1-14-2008
Thanks for the kind comments. I can't believe I'm finally finished with this project.
In case anybody cares, I've blogged a Post Mortem about the project at:
http://www.donaldhays.com/archive/2008/01/14/sunset_post_mortem.html
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Fritz Laurel said 9:43PM on 1-14-2008
Donald -- bravo. Nice job!
vectorelement said 1:05AM on 1-15-2008
I checked it out and I'll definitely be playing this in the days to come. Awesome job!
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