Quake 3 hits the iPod touch, makes for portable LAN party
By Paul Miller 
posted Apr 5th 2008 4:47PM
posted Apr 5th 2008 4:47PM
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omfg...
are you kidding me?
I need a new pair of boxers, cause I definitely crapped myself...
Now we can shut up all those idiots asking, "But does it play Doom? Ha ha." I'm wondering if John Carmack knows about this? That iPhone/iPod Touch gaming market is looking kind of lucrative right about now. I wonder if it will be possible to port Counter-Strike for this thing? Hey, Gabe, baby, are you listening?
clak is right. This is the 21st century. Fuck Doom.
Does it play Doom II?
Dude, I need to get a new desk seat! Worse than you man :P
John Carmack helped make this happen.
No freaking way! SWEEET!! Sony HAS to release an official SDK for the PSP now. I can't believe Q3A is on the itouch before PSP. Ridiculous.
Keep dreaming. A game console's revenue stream comes from licensing games. You give a SDK away, you aren't doing much to encourage developers to seek licences and give a company money. Sure, you cover a fair chunk of hardware costs when you buy a console, but the company usually looses a lot of money on each hardware unit sold. It's why the 360 is so cheap, MS make back that cost from licensing games on the console. (The exception being the Wii, which has made Nintendo a sea of green for them to swim in, they make raw profit off every console sold.)
The iPhone/iPod Touch wasn't created to make money off software licences, it was made to cover it's cost at purchase, not to mention the money they're getting away from AT&T, O2 and the others who hold iPhone service exclusivity around the world... It's viable for them to make their platform more attractive by opening up the platform to developers.
umm maurik quake 3 hit the dell axim x50v and other pocket pcs before the psp and the ipod touch and that was in 2005
proof: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/11/11/q3ce_powervr/
man, this must really drain ur battery...but still freaken awsome. I know whats on my christmas list...now I just need to figure out how to speed up time.
A company called Mophie released a battery sleeve for the iPhone a few months ago. http://www.mophie.com/products/juice-pack/?pod=iPhone
not necessarily.. OpenGL ES runs on an integrated coprocessor which doesn't strain the main ARM core (and obviously makes it way faster)... I can't wait for firmware 2.0!
Oh god, this makes me want a 3G iPhone _so hard_.
"_so hard_."
Obligatory: That's what she said.
dude, I can understand if it's a perfect setup, but it's not an obligatory..
. . . or you could get a job.
That really isn't too difficult. Just get in a spaceship accelerate to lightspeed, return and you'll find that time indeed has sped up. Of course by the time you'll get back there probably won't be an iPod touch anymore, but at least you've had a fun trip.
That was supposed to be a reply to greg. Stupid no-replying engadget comments section . . .
I can reply, sucka.
If Eroz was a helpful soul, he would have informed you that reply works if you click on the date/time stamp.
will it work on iPhone?
thx
Faslane
This may seem rather cynical, but haven't we seen rather impressive things done with videos before?
You know, like the iPhone Magic Show ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=lcB8CKa73B0 )?
Hey, I've got an iPod Touch! Where can I sign up? :D
Cool, but not the most optimal way to play. Kind of hard to kick ass in Quake 3 when you're constantly messing with your viewing angle in efforts to control the player. Glare and washout ain't no fun when you're trying to pwn.
Well, the major problem is that the guy was playing with one hand for each iPod Touch he was holding. I'd imagine that it would be much easier to play using two hands to move and a thumb or finger to fire.
Now if they could only build in a way to jump or is it "skip?" Perhaps the left pane of the screen could be for jumping and the right for firing. So your left thumb could activate jump by touching the screen, while your right thumb fires. I wonder how difficult it will be to implement that kind of interaction.
what do you mean you can't reply?
I misread it at first as Doom 3 :p
Wow! Now you can play a game I got sick of nearly a decade ago on a phone I got sick of hearing about nearly a year ago. Amazing! Convergence is finally happening at last!
dude it's frackin' awesome
Damn, you Apple haters wouldn't use an iPhone to call 911 if your mother was dying of a heart attack and there wasn't another phone in a 50 mile radius. Outstanding!
Clak: Yes, and?
Very true, I can tell it will be a pain. From my experience, playing Doom on my iPod Classic wasn't the best, but it was the idea of playing my favorite FPS that got me enthusiastic to try it out.
that would be syncing your motion in two hand simultaneously, the touches and the videos themselves, not likely, not to mention why would it be fake? the sdk is out, the iphone / touch has twice the processing power of a psp and a lot more ram.
And yes, the reply system does seem to be quite buggy. :s
Oh wow, what an error. Pardon my little "flood" comments! I meant to say "..playing Doom on my iPod 5G..", not the Classic. As far as I know, the Classic isn't hacked yet. Unless someone can tell me otherwise! ;)
Theoretically it -could- play Half-Life then as its based entirely upon the Q3 engine; now THEN I'd buy one!
@Steffen Jobs
Well, to answer your question, there are already companies making battery packs for the iPhone. I'm surprised Griffin hasn't made one. A company called Mophie released a battery sleeve for the iPhone a few months ago. http://www.mophie.com/products/juice-pack/?pod=iPhone
LordZargon, you are wrong! Half-Life is not based on the Q3-engine.
Half-Life uses a modified "id Tech 1"-engine aka. Quake-I-engine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Quake_-_family_tree.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_tech
@ ShadowMaker...
Time, in theory, does NOT speed up when getting closer to light speed; it slows down.
You need to take a physics course again...while your time slow down, the surrounding time goes faster, get it?
@ Tom
.... I'm aware of that. But it's only relative.
Regardless, I WANT THIS ON MY iPod touch!
:)
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/03/20/iphone-20-sdk-video-games-to-rival-nintendo-ds-sony-psp/
You just check out this article and you'll see exactly how lucrative the iPod Touch/iPhone gaming platform can be. Running far better hardware than either the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, the iPod Touch/iPhone can dominate if games are developed for it. I don't know how many of users are playing games on this platform now, but the iPhone does have at least 4 million devices out there. With movies, music, corporate usage and games, iPhones sales should just explode once SDK games are released. There should be no problem selling 11 or 12 million iPhones this year.
My only worry, as you mentioned, how will the puny battery manage to take the stress. When my PSP runs low on juice I can just pop in another battery. iPhone users won't be so fortunate.
Weren't Windows Mobile-powered Pocket PCs doing this over a year ago already? Nice to see, but certainly nothing new.
Oh, and wasn't that Pocket PC a DELL of all things? And isn't 640x480 > 480x320?
Christ, you Apple haters are so negative. You would piss on a Dasani truck if you were dying of thirst in the middle of the Sahara desert.
My piss tasted better than Dasani water.
Clak, as someone who makes negative post after post in treads about Microsoft tech (see the Surface thread for example, as well as other slams against the XBOX, Zune, etc), you whining about somebody being negative about Apple is just a sad attempt to defend everything Apple. If you think that other people should not be making comments such as Lein's, why don't you follow your own advice?
Thank you. I'll be here all night.
@Dohone
How DARE you expose my hypocrisy!
The new thing is this port looks to actually be FLUID unlike the slide show you get on a Pocket PC or Windows Mobile.
Here's a video showing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxf4oTaxPv8
Now look again at the iPod touch version...
Yeah? And apple's first handheld (let's forget the newton) can do it to? What's your point? The point here is that this is cool and that's what matters. Besides, I can't think of any other handhelds that could do than AND had an accelerometer.
hmmmm... all we need is Halo...
wait... who _said_ that?
*innocent whistle*
LordZargon
Half-Life was "loosely" based on the Quake 1 source.
But, any machine that could run Q3A decently, could definitely run CS.
And with WiFI can they can feed in crappy ads too, isn't it greeeat.
tis what happens when you got marketshare like Apple does
even open and more powerful devices like the n800 can only barely run Quake 2
Don't be silly...even the n73 can run quake smoothly. The n95 can play quake with motion sensing aswell.
My 4 year old Dell Axim x50v can play Quake 3.
Please provide a link to a video showing a N95 playing Quake *3* not Quake *1*. I can't find any.
The Dell Axim played Quake 3 terribly. A first person shooter isn't fun when you're getting 3 frames per second.
you had a bowel incident over a video game port on a phone with one button?
what happens when a girl touches you? diarrhea? cha cha cha
im sure quake looks nice but running into walls will be a common thing.
ie who cares
While I usually don't care about any kind of Apple Polished Turd™ I must say that this is pretty cool. The GP2X F-200 can't play Quake 3 or Half-Life can it?
No, but the new OpenPandora can.... and it will kick a$$es (in gaming, that is) when it finally exits the leet developers ring
Very nice, how about getting UT99 on it? : )
I SO want a freaking PSP-Phone, don't care if the dimensions are the same as the PSP to keep the large screen, even though it is quite large in footprint compared to most pocketable gadgets. : /
This is the case of "SO WHAT!"
Yep you're right time slows down for the one traveling close to the speed of light. What about the time of the observer?
Uh..Yup.I've also made a deposit.
Now, only if they could put Crysis or F.E.A.R on it, highest graphics.
@Luke Time slows down in the ship from the reference frame of the earth-thus time on earth would go by quicker, hence going forward in time quicker... Just a little bit of a relativity lesson for you.
I want that in my life.
Counter-Strike is a closed source game which runs on the Windows platform using Direct X.
Quake III Arena is (now) a open source game which is platform independent and uses OpenGL.
NO You will NOT see CS on an iPhone or any non-Windows platform.
No, I think Valve would port CS and Half-life if they saw some money in it. Don't forget that Gabe Newell would have ported Half-Life 2 to the Mac if Steve Jobs would have paid him some bribe money. Remember this story? http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/08/royalty_demands_may_have_kept_valves_half_life_2_off_the_mac.html
Did you forget that the first half life and cs were also running on opengl mode?
We don't need any more iPhones melting or exploding now...
So uh, controls?
How many times does it need to be said, it's not called an itouch.
Steve?
And you're not called mothity. So?
spiderlama: Thank you for clearing that up.
open source = portability, generally speaking.
IE will never run on the PS3, but firefox and konqueror already do, and easily.
...so how about tremulous, nexuiz, openarena, alienarena, and such? Who wants to compile those for ARM? I don't know how to work gcc that well...
The iPhone is closed source but it did not stop them.
Yeah, what are they thinking not allowing people to reply to specific comments? :-P
Controls are horrible.
installer source: icculus.org/quake3
Seriously.
@luke - doesn't that mean, that since for you time has slowed down, the rest of time will have moved on at normal speed, thus resulting in the feeling of 'sped up' time on your return? If an hour for me has passed, but a year for the people who stay behind, for me time has sped up. I think.
At least it does when I hit 88 miles/hour.
Perfect fit for an Apple device. It looks better than it works.
now the big question is will it play crysis?
i already know that it the iphone blends and plays doom so....
I'd comment on this, but this commentig/replying system is so f-ed that It would prolly end up on a different article altogether...
BTW, the clicking on the timestampt trick doesn't work anymore for replies.
testing reply to myself by clicking on the timestamp. might as well say something to myself, so here goes, "You are one sexy beast, hypereric!"
I give it ten years before the kids are asking if it plays Crysis instead of Doom.
awesome! but hey? why is he not playing against someone? maybe use a tripod?
Dude, psp already has a dev-kit, thats how everyone makes games for it. Next time, think.
Yes, but you have to pay quite a high fee for an official dev-kit. What these people expect from "SDK" is what Apple have done. An affordable SDK which would allow them to make programs for their device easily. It's just not the case in the video game industry.
Heh Gabe can't port Half-Life 2 to the PS3, I think anything Apple-related would blow his mind... literally.
Wow, this is pretty amazing. The iPhone really has the potential to be the third major computing platform for consumers. Just have to improve our battery technology to you don't end up drained after 20 min of play.
After thinking about it a bit...there really isn't much of a point to this, nor is this the appropriate platform.
The standard for Portable FPS's should be Metroid Prime : Hunters, mouse + keyboard like func...sure, some of it could have been better, but that's the best so far.
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There once was an uppity iPod
Held gameless by drones in White™ iZods
Then POOF! --like some wee Wii
Pods now play Quake 3 free
"Flak's extra!" screamed Turtle-necked iGod
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Damn, and I thought I made dumb and useless comments. Passing the torch to you, my friend.
And thanks to the dude above for the timestamp trick.
Thanks TubeTop [grabs torch]! My mother also despairs that my only (dubious) talent is transmogrifying tech news into the limerick metric...
Stem $ell rocks!! Liked the accordion pen drive one you did, too!
The dude above who wanted to speed up time has more hope of getting his wish answered than you do
Doom >
arg. fracking. this is the reason I get halfway through a battlestar tv show. Frack this, frack that. just swear already.
click date under name k thx bye