[casual_games] Mmmm this game sounds familiar...

[Todd Sawicki]

Awesome work... the iPhone and Wii both have awesome potential.

 

todd

 

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From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of NL
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:20 PM
To: casual_games at igda.org
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Mmmm this game sounds familiar...

 

 

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

 

Play Talks

Free Podcast Now Up on Game Theory

http://www.gametheoryshow.com/index.php?post_id=216328#

 

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	Message: 1
	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:
	
	http://diamenty.myiphone.pl/ (you can open it with a regular PC
browser too)
	
	Too bad they couldn't figure creativity out yet.
	
	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
	
	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).
	
	And accepting donations for a largely copied game... Do I smell 
	<sniffs the air>... Lawsuit? :)
	
	Joe Schultz
	Game Director
	ByDesign Games
	mailto:joe.schultz at bydesigngames.com
	http://www.bydesigngames.com

 

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