Quake 3 iPod Devs Unveil New Project

[CSN NewsBot]

For those that may not have seen it (myself included) there's a rather interesting video out there of Quake 3 running on an iPod Touch, complete with motion sensitive controls. You can actually find that video a bit further down in this news piece. However, the team behind the project have just unveiled their new iPod Touch title, Space Trader.

Space Trader is a fast paced action trading game in full 3D. Players compete to make money by buying and selling commodities, capturing fugitives and collecting stash. Challenge yourself, your friends, and your foes in a bid to become the wealthiest Trader in space!

The game is presently available for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms (complete with demos on the site) but the iPhone version is being worked on to meet the launch of the iPhone software store coming in June.



The team is also reportedly working on a casual RPG title for the iPhone. This title will feature support for multiple human players in an MMORPG type environment. Both titles are based on a heavily modified Quake 3 engine. The company, HermitWorks, was created by two former staff members of BioWare.[break="quake 3 iPhone touch footage"]

[Ryosuke T]

there goes your battery power to make phone calls. all these apps are fun and great. Really impractical. The whole point of what iPhone was designed to do was to connect the owner to internet and making phone calls.

[Thortok2000]

Sooner or later the US will catch up in technology to some other areas of the world.



First there was no such thing as a cel phone, then it was invented and you had to get a modem to connect your laptop to your cel phone. Now laptops have the connection built into the modem and cel phones have the internet built into them.



As far as games go, they're doing a similar kind of thing. Take Nintendo DS or Wii. They can hook into a Wi-Fi connection but they can't directly connect the way, say, a cel phone can. The connection between putting the game directly on the cel phone, and establishing the connection directly (like laptop modems) on the console/handhold itself is a short jump.



So in actuality, this is kind of the step before we see a console/handheld that doesn't need you to provide the internet for it to patch into, it'll go get the internet itself.

[silentscoper]

Actually Ryosuke T, this was aimed at the iPod Touch, not the iPhone. the iPod Touch is not for connecting the owner to the internet and making phone calls but for media.