Quake 3 for iPod Touch / iPhone

Cleve Nettles
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April 04, 2008
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The time has finally come.  Games like Quake 3 are hitting the iPhone platform.  It is particularly cool to see the accelerometers being used to control the action.

Bonus points for controlling 2 players at once. 

Apple's new gaming platform looks to be shaping up quite nicely.

Via Hermitworks

 

 

Comments (16)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 05, 2008 - 3:16am

Could still be two iphones playing movies...

DistortedLoop | April 05, 2008 - 6:29am

 "could stil be two iphones playing movies..."

 

Watch the video again.  I suppose in a very cynical world it could be rehearsed, but when he tilts, the character changes direction and aim.  When he taps his finger to fire the gun on the left one, you see the shot simultaneously on the other from the other point of view.  Very good synchronization of two movies starting together, then tilting the two hands, and tapping at all the right times.  Not impossible, but why bother?  Much easier to believe it's just the real thing, isn't i?

jt3k (not verified) | April 05, 2008 - 1:07pm

Well which is easier to do:

a) Download Quake 3 source code, understand it, write code to supply the accelerometer function, compile it, test it several times and modifying accordingly, then make this video.

b) Record a couple of videos and rehearse the tapping timings two or three times.

We'll see if this shows up in the Installer.app feeds...

RB (not verified) | April 05, 2008 - 1:34pm

@jt3k:

That's a very odd argument, and one that's not correctly applied here. It might be reasonable if it was somehow hard to believe that Quake or Doom could be ported to the iPhone. But it's not. If you've watched the unveiling of the SDK, you'll have seen that the iPhone is capable of exactly what you're seeing in this video.

And what would be the point of faking something like this anyway? Why would you go to the trouble of faking something that's easily within the reach of a competent programmer? How pathetic would THAT be? Seems like they'd have faked something a little more impressive.

Personally, I don't think first person shooters will be fun to play on an iPhone, once the novelty wears off. But it was obvious people would make them. And we'll see if I'm right or wrong. (I can't lose, because if I'm wrong, I have a fun game on my iPhone)

DistortedLoop | April 05, 2008 - 7:36pm

Dude...check installer.app for a game called iPac3d. I have it on my iPhone right now.

The movement, accelerometer graphics, dungeon maze, etc are all almost identical to what we see in this video demo of Quake 3. The only thing that seems at all difficult is the actual multiplayer aspect of that, and given the hackers have already gotten all kinds of networking applications to work, it's no stretch to think they can't send some packets back and forth, is it?

I doubt this will show on installer.app, but show up first day in the iTunes App store when it opens for business? Pretty good chance, don't you think?

P.S. I don't care for the accelerometer based movement control; but I'm an old fart whose hand eye coordination isn't what it used to be.

 

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 05, 2008 - 3:37am

Games on iphone/ipod touch are gonna be huge if thats anything to go by! I CANT WAIT!

Free iPod (not verified) | April 05, 2008 - 7:29pm

Can't wait until it is fully ready to launch, I'll be playing Quake 3 all day long.

ROYALLL (not verified) | April 06, 2008 - 9:19am

what a completely retarded remark.... from a devs perspective ill let u know right now.. this is completely believable and 100 percent genuine.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 06, 2008 - 1:06pm

It can't be two movies playing because when he taps the screen the pause/play menu doesn't pop up!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2008 - 5:04am

sad bastards discussing this !

Raskitoma (not verified) | April 07, 2008 - 4:52pm

It seems to be really great... want to test it... does anyone have a clue about the dl for the engine... I'm pretty sure that it uses the data files from the original disc I have stored here.

gav (not verified) | April 08, 2008 - 2:50am

Now if only Bungi would do this with MARATHON™/HALO™ I'd be a happy bunny

some random guy... (not verified) | April 17, 2008 - 5:42pm

so yeah obviously debates about these just being videos...but how would the guy be able to "fire" but not bring up the playback controls of the movie? when you tap the screen once on an iphone/ipod touch then the controls come up...and even if you tap the screen twice, the controls show up for less than a second but they don't appear when the guy in the video "fires" so maybe it could be real....

TruB (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 1:43am

this is cool if its real which I doubt, have no idea how powerful the Iphone really is but it would be sweet if this works.
However, my first thought was also fake, not vids, but that application that let you see and control you computer over the network, so if you start up your game on the computer add controls to suite the iphone, you also most likely have to change the resolution so it will fit the iphone.

I know people have tried, this looks like right, but with all those fake vidoes, you have to wonder.

Mika (not verified) | December 17, 2008 - 10:34pm

Wow..All the more reasons to go in for a Iphone.
MGTGamer - The Gaming Frontier

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