Looking at the long list of iPhone games both in-development (based on the SDK) and currently available via jailbreak, there’s no mistaking that the iPhone is a particularly flexible gaming platform. An excellent demonstration of this recently came from a group of Japanese researchers who developed a multitouch, multiscreen, multiplayer version of Pong. And what’s more, they put it all together “in about an hour."
As can be seen in the above video, three players, each with his own iPod touch, are huddled together playing this adaptation of Pong. One player deflects the ball with his paddle and off of his screen it flies, appearing as an incoming blip on his neighbor’s iPod touch which is wirelessly connected to his own. And on it goes from player to player — an impressive demonstration, despite its apparent simplicity.
It’s exciting to think of the types of full-blown titles of this sort that lie ahead, offering the player a previously unknown level of immersiveness thanks to the iPhone’s unique combination of rich connectivity and innovative control technologies.
They should play the Imagination song through out the entire game.
Why am I always getting "This video is no longer available"? Like, every YouTube video embedded on this site... just letting you know.
@chris try this video again.
Hey Arn,
Thanks for responding, but, the videos still don't work. Are these being yanked by YouTube? Tried in safari and FF3. Kinda weird. Keep up the good reviews though.
@chris we are embedding high quality versions of youtube. I'm guessing that might be the cause of the problem . click on the word "video" in the text above and see if the video works when you go to youtube directly. you outside the U.S.?
arn
Yeah, it works on the YouTube site, I guess its just not working on the embed. Thanks for your help.
Cool game :) love it <3