Quake 3 on Apple iTouch/iPhone (VIDEO!)
A little back story first.
Quake III Arena is a multiplayer first-person shooter released in December 1999 which was developed by id Software. On August 19, 2005, id Software released the complete source code for Quake 3 under the GNU General Public License, however the game data, such as models, textures, sounds, shaders, and other scripts, is still proprietary. The game immediately became very popular in the open source community and numerous mods are released as self standing games. The main project is at ioquake3 (or ioq3 for short) and introduced many state of the art enhancements. The subversion is at icculus.
iTouch
The SDK, and a TIFF exploit jailbreak, allowed Scot from HermitWorks to compile the icculus source and with a few modifications, he made it run on the iTouch. Multiplayer no less! The accelerometers controls movement, and a touch fires your favorite weapon. The only drawback I see, is that you can not control the view. Still fun nonetheless. I only wished they released it! Here is the video:
Nice to see that games like Quake 3 are hitting the iPhone/iTouch platform. First person shooters are the only games worth playing in my opinion, and besides I still play Q3 once in a while. If you never played Quake 3, then go grab a copy, it’s heavily discounted, and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and it’s loads of fun. Well worth it.
Source: HermitWorks.
Tags: Apple, id, iPhone, iTouch, Quake 3
q3 rox!
