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Restoring my faith in iPhone gaming

March 17, 2008 by Dr. Macenstein
Filed under: Awesomeness, Games, iPhone

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Not that I ever had very high hopes to begin with, but this video by the French gaming company INT13 has renewed my interest in the idea of the iPhone as a true mobile gaming platform. Their Mario Kart rip-off “Crazy Kart 2” is apparently already boasting a 60 fps framerate using a software-only engine, and a 3D accelerated sequel is already being planned. The game is still in production, but it seems rather ambitious, with multi-player support, downloadable vehicles, and the possibility of motion-tilt-steering (currently the game is touch screen only).

Aside from the smooth GUI animations, I didn’t really know what the iPhone’s graphics capabilities were, but given how good this game looks after only 2 week’s development time, it looks like the scrappy little iPhone may indeed become mobile gaming contender. Looks like I will be recharging my iPhone more often come this summer!

[via MacRumors]

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6 Comments on Restoring my faith in iPhone gaming

flynn on Mon, 17th Mar 2008 6:32 pm

Your faith is probably restored by a fake. OpenGL ES does not work in AspenSimulator as of now, and the white circle indicates it doesn’t run on the device either…

Dr. Macenstein on Mon, 17th Mar 2008 6:52 pm

CURSE YOU, INT13!
CUUUURSE YOU!!!!!
-The Doc

Uncle Miltie on Mon, 17th Mar 2008 7:03 pm

Actually, that looks weak to me compared to what I expect to see… forget steering via touching the screen - how about steering via tilting the phone in landscape?

Steven Haskayne on Tue, 18th Mar 2008 3:56 pm

how do you accelerate?

Ethan on Wed, 19th Mar 2008 3:11 am

Though the video may be a fake, I wouldn’t rule out seeing graphics quality near what the video shows, judging from the super monkey ball demo.

Loweded Wookie on Wed, 19th Mar 2008 6:39 am

Actually the iPhone is twice the spec of the Sony PSP so once games developers get used to the SDK then we can expect to see some truly amazing games.

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