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so very cool

Video (on TouTube direct) looks cool...

May 30, 08 - 02:40 pm Comment from: jtc

lets see samsung try to copy that.....

Coming soon to Windows 7…

May 30, 08 - 02:47 pm Comment from: Basil Ganglia

"Welcome to the Social"

May 30, 08 - 02:49 pm Comment from: studentrights

Already more impressive that the Windows 7 demo.

You know gaming is desperate on the Apple front when Pong makes headline news.

May 30, 08 - 02:58 pm Comment from: TowerTone

I can't even get my shoes tied in an hour...

It's stuff like that, that could become a real craze - world wide - and push the sales of the iPhone and Touch to ever new heights.

May 30, 08 - 03:07 pm Comment from: Wade

One would need to hire detectives and post ads, juggle schedules, arrange transportation, etc., to find and gather three or more Zune users in the same room at the same time.

Witness the future peeps, first AAPL killed the walkman, then HD-DVD, now the PSP is doomed. It seems that the "payback" is a bitch huh sony?

May 30, 08 - 03:09 pm Comment from: CYxodus

Rancid...I thought of insulting you for your comment but then I realized that people like you will be nothing but a footnote when it's all said and done.

Microsoft's dominance of the last two decades in coming to an end as the company is changing guard and its users are getting tired of the errors of Windows. As the computer has become a common fixture in the home, it's moved away from its difficult hobbyist roots and has moved towards an ease of use and simplicity that the masses want.

The times are changing.

Get a girlfriend!!!!!

Pretty funny and interesting.


The game is made (somewhat) interesting by viewing all three iPhones at once. On an individual iPhone you'd just wonder where the ball went and if it would ever come back

May 30, 08 - 03:30 pm Comment from: Bunsen Honeydew

Eunuchs!

May 30, 08 - 03:45 pm Comment from: JAYGEE

Something as simple as that game (graphics wise) could take the iPhone/iPod Touch into the mainstream handheld gaming market. That was great.

So this is how iPod users entertain themselves when HD video is denied them according to Dilger the Dimwit. If this is all that is needed for iPod users to have a rollicking good evening, I don't care how long it takes for instantaneous internet access to HD.

Bite me, Dilger, I'm playing Pong!

May 30, 08 - 03:57 pm Comment from: Predrag

Our rancid friend didn't read the MDN take, obviously. Let's repeat, since it is important: It's just Pong. Now, extrapolate. Or, to translate it, it is just a 'proof of concept', an idea for a direction for the future. Simple, elegant and creative. And this is on the existing iPhone v.1.

I think the guy on the right thinks his iphone is a vagina. lol

May 30, 08 - 03:59 pm Comment from: CYxodus

I'm just amazed how the Mac Haters see this concept game as a way to attack Apple but can't see how it's really changing the way we socialize.

May 30, 08 - 04:28 pm Comment from: makemineamac

Great sound effects....

May 30, 08 - 05:20 pm Comment from: Predrag

Whoever was rancid before seems to have a friend in our 'He, He' friend here.

Neither our rancid friend, nor our 'He, He' friend have read (or understood the substance of) MDN take (or my subsequent comment).

It took 60 minutes of working with iPhone SDK to come up with a game that uses touch input and communicates across the network. Again, obviously (to everyone else except our two friends), this provides solid proof how immensely powerful iPhone is as a platform, and how solid SDK is.

We have to keep in mind that this particular piece of software can only be put on a jailbroken phone. Again, the point is, we aren't even out of the gate yet with the officially sanctioned software.

Several large gaming houses have announced their support for this platform. SDK has been downloaded 200,000 times in the first few weeks. WWDC is sold out for the first time (albeit not at the venue it used to be long time ago, which could accommodate larger crowds, but still).

For the squirting Zune, the 'squirting' feature was one of the flagship features, THE differentiator from everything else. We all know how well it worked for the Zune.

For iPhone, from day one, it has set itself apart from everyone else with a number of unique features (the quality of touch interface, multi-touch gestures, full web browser, chat-style SMS, virtual keyboard, visual voice mail...) and that was before third-party development was even considered by Apple. Whatever multi-user games end up coming out for the iPhone/iTouch platform as a result of, or inspired by, this crude and simple implementation of Pong, won't be the primary selling reason for the iPhone/iPod touch. They'll just be one of many reasons.

And I have no idea what HD are you talking about (and what does this have to do with Mr. Dilger).

May 30, 08 - 06:27 pm Comment from: BiZarRo BaLlmEr

They are iPod Touches not iPhones (No chrome edge)
I think the Zune social is about to be out socialed.

Coming soon to Windows 7…

...as Windows Surface Touch Pong.

Hope they can wait until 2019 for Windows 7 to ship, though.

Did I misunderstand your post, Predrag? Well, thanks for clearing it all up for me.

Wow, in one hour you designed a game! What do you want, a cookie? One usually finds disparaging comments at MDN how Windows machines are the devices of choice for gamers. It is strange that you seem so determined to develop a game for iPods and iPhones when gaming is often mocked as a behavior of thickheaded unenlightened Windows PC users.

So much for the stereotype of the ultra-intellectual Apple enthusiast as a person that abhors games as some childish past time. I mistakenly thought that Apple enthusiasts only had time for more exalted and lofty endeavors than playing games. What kind of game did you develop? Will you be presenting this game at WWDC? What kinds of games do you intend to develop? Do you think that you might be dumbing down the Mac brethren by developing games for iPhones and iPods?

If you would read the post from 30 May 2008 1:19 PM EDT you might discern the meaning of the Dilger reference. Basically, Dilger bemoans the abject failure of Apple providing exemplary online HD video entertainment. I meant to suggest that by purchasing an iPhone or iPod persons can possible entertain themselves in ways other than watching some classic film or contender for the Palme d'Or in HD. Clear enough for you?

This clip is from Japan I assume, as all people in the video is speaking Japanese. Yes, they are iPod Touch's as there is no iPhone in Japan, yet.

Will game developers come up with games that will rival the craze people in Japan have for the Nintendo DS? It would be fun to play an interactive game on an iPhone/iPod Touch across the aisles on a crowded train...

May 30, 08 - 09:56 pm Comment from: Think

@ HEHE

Wow. You remind me of so many bitter Windows geeks that after seeing Apple make some technical jump in a computer model, then they just bitch about how much Apple sucks.

I kid you not, five years ago I had some jerk insult me in my car because I support Macs as my job. He just spouted off about how much better Windows is and Apple is going out of business.

I just smiled and said "really", then drove away from the Wendy's drive thru window.

May 30, 08 - 10:01 pm Comment from: Think

Let me also add. If you so unimpressed by the pong game in one hour, try it with some Palms and Bluetooth or some other crap Windows Mobile hand held.

I wonder if they could even do it in a year.

Your just mad cause MS didn't do it first. But they'll sure do it second. As usual.

I suggest that you refrain from further dialogue with the boorish and imbecilic He, he.

He, she or it is only seeking to attract applause and attention to justify their pathetically sad life.

He, he. gives the impression of someone inwardly disturbed and mentally unbalanced, their anger towards MDN, their enmity towards DED at RDM and hateful spite towards Apple - channeled through comments here on MDN and most probably elsewhere - are due to He, he.'s sudden realization that Apple Mac users were right all along and that He, she or it now understands that their chosen path of as a Microsoft sycophantic and credulous cretin has become a situation that offers no prospects of progress or development. (Enough to drive one to despair)

Perversely, through their torrent of inane comments, He, she or it is now bent on seeking some sort of backward and upside down reductive redemption.

No absolution for you He, he ... Ha, ha ... muwhahaha.

May 30, 08 - 11:17 pm Comment from: Boyarsky

That's f***in Cool!

(and I don't even have an iPhone)

He-she,

Yes, it's "just Pong." Now, extrapolate.

Wrap your brain around the notion of WHERE the play-field is.

WRT your rant, I don't think 'Apple enthusiasts abhor games'. But, rather — atleast with using my friends as anecdotal evidence — we're not as enthralled with the 87 'different' hunt-and-kill, Doom-style, games.

There was 35 ways to be-head an opponent in a SNES game — there's 39 ways on XBrick. But, XBrick has Hi-Def blood. That's better, right?

May 31, 08 - 10:06 am Comment from: Think

@HESHEHE

Like I said at May 30, 08 - 11:01 pm, Has Palm, MS or any one else done anything like this?

Please inform me of something better?