[casual_games] Mmmm this game sounds familiar...

[NL]

Inspired by Jaun's thread on iPhone games I designed a casual game 
called Tilt at iPhone Dev Camp this weekend with Joe Hewitt  (code) 
and Colin Toomey (art).

Tilt an iPhone Motion Game

Tilt is a game in 1.5D. There's a description and demo of it here: 
http://www.xeodesign.com/games/tilt
(the linked demo's only playable on the iPhone - unless your laptop tilts! =)

Developed over a weekend, Tilt's just a demo right now (i.e. no level 
design ;). We'll be working more on it this week. I will be talking 
about it and showing a more complete version at my talk next Monday 
at Casual Connect.

Joe blogs about how we made it here: http://www.joehewitt.com/

Info on iPhone Dev Camp is here: https://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCampHackAThon

I wanted to design a casual game that created a true iPhone PX 
(player experience). I was looking for player emotions coming from 
what I saw and heard during the interviews I conducted of people in 
iPhone Lines a little over a week ago. The core mechanic had to 
create the same emotions and deliver the kind of fun that people 
would expect from an iPhone game. There's not much to work with, but 
Joe's navigation hack was enough to get us started.

Lessons learned over 36 hours: Web games on the iPhone are 
challenging, but not impossible. Paper prototypes really helped 
explore ideas for the new motion mechanics and were very viral 
inspiring other teams like the Red/Green team. iPhone games can work 
even without Flash and a keyboard. The big obstacles for us were 
having to hack Safari to simulate motion control and not having 
audio. Having no web audio is a big deal for games!

See you in Seattle!

Nicole

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Nicole Lazzaro / President, XEODesign, Inc. / Player Experience Design (tm)
www.xeodesign.com / nicole @ xeodesign.com / w:510.658.8077 f:510.658.2659

Players don't want "reality"
They want choices that make them feel deeply - like real life does.

Got iPhone? Play Tilt the world's first motion controlled game for the iPhone
http://www.xeodesign.com/tilt.html

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Free Podcast Now Up on Game Theory
http://www.gametheoryshow.com/index.php?post_id=216328#

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>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:33:00 -0700

>From: "Juan Gril" <juangril at jojugames.com>

>Subject: [casual_games] Mmmm this game sounds familiar...

>To: "IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List" <casual_games at igda.org>

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>Looks like people are figuring out how to make games for the iphone using

>AJAX:

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>http://diamenty.myiphone.pl/ (you can open it with a regular PC browser too)

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>Too bad they couldn't figure creativity out yet.

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>Juan

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>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:46:12 +0200

>From: Joe Schultz <joe.schultz at bydesigngames.com>

>Subject: Re: [casual_games] Mmmm this game sounds familiar...

>To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List <casual_games at igda.org>

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>Hmm... yes, this game indeed looks familiar... so familiar I'm 

>already tired of it! :P

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>I tire from such blatant copying of game designs... sigh. If there 

>ever was a case for "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" 

>this is it. Leave it to us game makers to respect each other (or 

>anyone for that matter).

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>And accepting donations for a largely copied game... Do I smell 

><sniffs the air>... Lawsuit? :)

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>Joe Schultz

>Game Director

>ByDesign Games

>mailto:joe.schultz at bydesigngames.com

>http://www.bydesigngames.com

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