'Labyrinth' Developers Demo Skateboard Game 'Touchgrind'
posted by arn on September 9th, 2008 2:36 AM EDT in Upcoming Games
Illusionlabs, the makers of Labyrinth for the iPhone, have announced their upcoming skateboard game called Touchgrind.
Billed as the "world's first multi-touch game" for the iPhone, the game uses finger gestures to control the on-screen skateboard.
The player rides freely in a skatepark and performs tricks on ramps, boxes and rails. The dynamic and innovative controls together with the game being built on a high quality physics engine gives the players a high degree of freedom to come up with their own tricks.
Illusionlabs also promises an online level editor that allows users to create and publish their own skateparks.
The game is expected to arrive in the App Store in October. A teaser video has been provided by the developer:
The demo video doesn't show a whole lot of depth to the game, but it does appear to be an interesting idea.
its like looking down and skating slowly without knowing what's in front of you. how cool can that get?
As far as technological demonstrations go, that's pretty impressive-looking…
But as far as demonstrating a fun game to play goes, that's very dull.
i think it looks great.
eek. That was borderline embarrassing to watch. Multitouch + physics, do not mean a game is automatically awesome.
This is probably more awesome for someone who knows how to skate, as one, I am looking forward to it!
LOL first multitouch game. Are they having a laugh ?
as somebody who has spent a fair amount of time on a skateboard….
this "game" still doesn't look like much fun…
The only thing i see bad about this game is not being able to see where you are going maybe a small map in the corner would help a little.
I don't think I've seen a skateboard go that slow in my entire life. Plus the sound FX of the guy going "Yeah!" was already getting annoying after only 30 seconds….
sorry but this is and looks not fun, this will be a *very very* repetitive game I'm afraid…
i think this will be awesome i am a hradcore tech deck lover so yeaa.
wow, they pushed this back to the end of november. it says on the website. damn…
i think that this game looks great however
WHY CANT YOU SEE INFRONT OF YOU AND WHY ARE YOU GOING SO SLOW ?????
did this game have a realy low budget or were they just lazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you could see infront and down at the board (like a split screen) it would be the best game for touch/iphone and it be a big hit but in its state it is going to be
SH*T