It Takes An Amateur To Create A Mobile Game That Uses The Network
from the about-time dept
For quite some time, I've been saying that the real breakthrough in mobile gaming isn't in just taking traditional games and making them mobile, but in offering something different that couldn't be done without the mobile phone. That is, something that takes advantage of the users being mobile and connected. Others are certainly saying the same thing, though there still haven't been too many successful examples. A few developers are trying, but over at 3GSM, it looks like one of the most creative gaming ideas that does embrace what's different about the mobile phone comes from an amateur, rather than professional developer. The game, which won two prizes to beat out the pros, involves using two camera phones to act as virtual tennis rackets, batting a virtual tennis ball across a court. It looks fairly simple -- but creative in a way that could definitely be compelling.
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are people so afraid to be alone with their own thoughts that they have to be distracted every second of every day?
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why?
I just don't think there is gonna be some mad obsession with playing games on cell phones anytime too soon.
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never mind, there are some cool bridge players in all the nursing home's... :-)
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Just hope people playing it dont...
All kinds of lawsuits and refund excuses would come up then. "Ya, I was playing a game of tennis and threw my phone at a wall, so the guy that wrote the game has to buy me a new phone."
OR in the case of threwing it at a fat lady's ass "I threw my phone at her ass, she thought I was pinching it, and now I want the guy that wrote the game to pay my ICU bills."
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loose: v; to release or unleash.
Well, if I had one of those obscenely expensive camera shoe-phones, I don't think I'd be loOsing my grip anytime soon. They'll get my expensive pointless phone when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Or in a year when it's obsolete.
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:-P
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what if....
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ispott might be onto something too
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Just get a Rev.
anyway, why would anyone play stupid games on a phone...
If its good then ill try it .. heh
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