marco:

The hit new iPhone game, iShoot, is great. But it is not a clone of Tank Wars or Worms, as many review sites are saying.

It’s very clearly a good port of my favorite old DOS game: Scorched Earth.

I care so much because this is an excellent game, and I have a bit of a history with it: I’ve spoken to the (very nice) author before and I’ve tried to port it to every platform I’ve ever coded graphics for (including C and C++ using OpenGL, DirectDraw, Direct3D, SDL, DHTML, and the iPhone before the SDK using Javascript and a <canvas> tag) and given up every time, because making a tech demo with animation and ballistics and falling terrain and 3D tank models loaded from .obj files is a lot of work but nowhere near the amount of work required to make it into a full game.

Tiff even made me a Scorched Earth pillow in college, having never seen the game but finding screenshots online, because she knew I liked it and was working on a remake. (I ended up using that sample code and basic playable demo to land my first real job.)

iShoot isn’t a complete port: it’s missing shields, guidance, fall damage, and many of the obscure weapons (notably napalm, which is primarily useful against shields, so I guess it’s OK to leave out if shields aren’t included). But it’s very well done, and I definitely would have spent more than $3 on it.

OK, núna verð ég að fá mér iPhone eða a.m.k iPod Touch. Scorched Earth er náttúrulega snilldar leikur, maður spilað hann ósjaldan back in the days… Síðan hef ég lengi verið að leita að gömlum Macintosh leikjum eins og þythokkíleikurinn þar sem skjárinn “brotnaði” hjá manni, lyftuleikurinn þar sem maður var á hóteli eða eitthvað og síðan leikurinn þar sem gaurar hoppuðu út úr þyrlu og maður átti að grípa þá með hestvagni fullan af heyi. Good times, good times…