Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iPhone
Multitouch, multiscreen iPod touch Pong
On first glance, it looks like the game is even checking orientation of the iPods, but if you watch it a little further, when things go faster, you can see that it's actually just pushing the ball from screen to screen as it leaves. Still, if nothing else, a quick demo like this shows that multiple Touches (via a certain website, or on the same WiFi network, maybe, or -- hopefully -- just in close proximity to one another through Bluetooth or another protocol) can easily be made to connect multiplayer gamers.
As a demo, very nice (and it seems fun as a game as well). Can't wait to see a full-featured game that takes advantage of all of the iPhone's connectivity options.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Caitlin said 7:40PM on 5-29-2008
Woah.
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mungler said 7:42PM on 5-29-2008
er... 'bluetooth or another protocol'?
uh.. the ipod touch doesnt have bluetooth hardware, so that would be tricky...
Blaktornado said 8:19PM on 5-29-2008
Suh-weet!
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ramond said 9:04PM on 5-29-2008
yet another definition of multitouch - multi-people-screen-touch
I agree it would have been amazing if the ball actually moved onto the next screen based on the angle from the accelerometer.
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Andrew said 10:08PM on 5-29-2008
So, I'm thinking in the near future, passing files from device to device, much like this.
Just slide it, and go.
I just sounded like Steve Jobs.
You heard it here first.
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Kumar said 11:18PM on 5-29-2008
I wish there atleast one company out there that makes a joystick kinda hardware that can be attached to both ends of an iphone connectible via bluetooth/Wifi to enhance the gaming capability of iPhone. This combination of the normal joystick and the accelerometer in a device will be the best portable gaming device I can ever see.
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craziplaya21 said 2:53AM on 5-30-2008
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/23/iphone-getting-game-thanks-to-the-icontrolpad/
rawhead said 3:16AM on 5-30-2008
Here you go:
http://www.iphonealley.com/news/icontrolpad-adds-physical-gaming-controls-to-iphone?s=d5636ac268e1259347edf54f3b2f4376&
Kenty said 11:27PM on 5-29-2008
Ok, that's kinda cool. But last month I was in the pub and my friend pulled out his jailbroken iPhone and we played Pong, but it was 2 player on the same iPhone, we each held one end of the iPhone, one finger each, and it used the accelerometer... if you tilted the phone towards your opponent (holding the other end of the same phone!) the ball would go faster. It made for some frantic pong action and was loads of fun :)
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Unregistered said 12:59AM on 5-30-2008
Only if Apple doesn't lock down connectivity..
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Compton said 2:40PM on 5-30-2008
Bong! He, he,he... Bong
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