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Re:John Carmack surprises fans (and his CEO) with Wolfenstei... by adammarkey on Friday April 03, 2009 @02:24PM (#545303)
Not only does Wolf3d run beautifully on the iPhone, the controls (and options for modifying them) actually make the iPhone a viable platform for 2.5 dimensional FPS games.

I'd like to see what he can come up with for Quake (a fully 3D shooter - which adds aiming up and down)

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Re:John Carmack surprises fans (and his CEO) with Wolfenstei... by daniel-cussen on Friday April 03, 2009 @04:12PM (#545518)
You'd need some kind of giro for the z-axis. Right now the iphone can only tell if it's facing uyp or facing down, but can't tell by what degree. Maybe in later edititons they will make the z-axis giro like the others. Alternatively, you could make a device you can attach to the iphone that tells it its position along the median plane.
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