Skip to Content

(i)Pawn is an iPhone game with screen-reactive pieces

This is one of the cooler things I've seen done with the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen. (i)Pawn is a game of sorts that works with a series of little figures on tokens that actually interact with the touchscreen itself. Most of the time, you need actual flesh to interact with the iPhone's screen, but these figures are also capacitive, so the app running on the device not only knows when and where you've placed these figures down but also which figures are touching, and so on.

Unfortunately, it's all in French, so I'm not completely sure what the "game" is. It appears to be a relationship game that has something to do with various personalities passing messages and interacting. And it could just be a demo of some kind, with a video running underneath those figures rather than actually interacting with the pieces themselves.

But it's not hard to think of other applications of a system like this (D&D on a touchscreen, anyone?), and a bigger screen like the iPad would come in handy, too. (i)Pawn is scheduled to be for sale in November of this year, so we'll keep an eye out for it and try to find out more about what it is and exactly how it works. Meanwhile, you can watch the videos of the figures in action and dream of all the various ways to use accessories like this.

[via TDW]

Categories

iPhone

This is one of the cooler things I've seen done with the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen. (i)Pawn is a game of sorts that works with a...
 

Add a Comment

*0 / 3000 Character Maximum Comment Moderation Enabled. Your comment will appear after it is cleared by an editor.

9 Comments

Filter by:
Philippe

This app description is not very clear even if you speak French. Since this company is in the book/e-book business, my guess would be that this is for interactive books.

August 26 2010 at 9:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ron

OK, I can't wait for some cool iPad board games to use similar technology.

This is cool!

August 26 2010 at 2:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tyr.goossens

There doesn't seem to be much of a "game" to it. The little men are conversing with the one representing the player making choices depending on which answer he gives, like a "choose your own adventure" kind of thing. The conversation shown is pretty bland: they greet each other and exchange pleasantries then the game proposes to talk and the guy chooses a topic ("computer games".)

August 26 2010 at 2:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tyr.goossens

There doesn't seem to be much of a "game" to it. The little men are conversing with the one representing the player making choices depending on which answer he gives, like a "choose your own adventure" kind of thing. The conversation shown is pretty bland: they greet each other and exchange pleasantries then the game proposes to talk and the guy chooses a topic ("computer games".)

August 26 2010 at 2:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tmhrtly

I speak a bit of French, and it seems that one character is asking you questions, and you have a variety of options to choose from, and when you start it asks if you want to see : your games, your messages, or your friends.

August 26 2010 at 1:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kick2goal

test

August 26 2010 at 12:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
William

The token just proved I was dreaming.

August 26 2010 at 11:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Billy

I just lost the game...

August 26 2010 at 11:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
1 reply to Billy's comment
sockatume

You should be banned from the internet forever for that.

August 26 2010 at 11:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Buy an ad here

Tweets

© 2012 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved.