Spore, 'Touch Fighter' shown on iPhone

by Ross Miller { Mar 6th 2008 at 2:05PM }

During Apple's iPhone SDK press conference today, we got a glimpse of the device's gaming capability with two titles: an in-house project dubbed Touch Fighter and Electronic Arts' Spore.

Touch Fighter is a 3D space shooter using OpenGL technology. You use the iPhone's accelerometer to steer (via moving the device around) and touch the screen to fire. Our friends at Engadget (who are liveblogging the event) also noted that an optimization screen showed it was running at an impressive 27 to 30 frames per second.

EA's Travis Boatman took the stage to show off the company's first product to come out of the iPhone dev kit, Spore. Initial pictures indicate that it's the mobile version shared by other cell phones. You use the accelerometer to move your creature and, of course, there are customizing options as well. [Update: EA confirmed that Spore for iPhone should be out in September, and that they're "actively using the new iPhone SDK to develop games for the iPhone OS." John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, said, "The animation technology in the iPhone OS enables us to build awesome games. I think iPhone consumers are going to be blown away by the games we create for this platform."]

More pictures after the break.

Tags: apple, breakingnews, ea, electronic-arts, iphone, sdk, spore, touch-fighter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Silly Sauce @ Mar 6th 2008 2:16PM

Perhaps I now have a reason to buy an iPhone...naaahhh

NATO_Duke @ Mar 6th 2008 2:24PM

I love mine though one thing it lacks is the gaming element that it appears to be well built for. (The web based games are kinda lame.)

I'm pretty excited to see how Spore works out for it.

Ieatbrains @ Mar 6th 2008 2:27PM

There will also be a Super Monkey Ball game.

Silly Sauce @ Mar 6th 2008 2:17PM

Perhaps I now have a reason to buy an iPhone...naaahhh

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 2:29PM

Perhaps you had a reason to double post...naaahhh

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 2:31PM

Perhaps he wanted to left clear that he now has a reason to buy an iPhone...naaahhh

Ieatbrains @ Mar 6th 2008 2:26PM

We seem to gete better games for the iPhone/iPod than there are for the Mac.

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 2:30PM

It's true...I rarely even use my macbook pro in OSX, I usually just keep it in Windows and game.

Mills and Boom @ Mar 6th 2008 5:40PM

OSX for work and media organising, XP for play.

That'll never change unless Steam and all the games it hosts work natively in OSX.

Jomolungma @ Mar 6th 2008 2:28PM

The only good thing this announcement might produce is new DS and PSP designs sooner rather than later so that ninty and sony execs can satisfy their paranoia

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 2:28PM

I wonder how long it will take for these games to be hacked for jailbroken iPhones.

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 2:29PM

Perhaps you had a reason to double post...naaahhh

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 2:31PM

Nothing is worse than double posting when your making fun of someone for double posting:(

Ieatbrains @ Mar 6th 2008 2:32PM

Hahaha!

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 2:33PM

YES taste the delicious IRONY!!!! Muhahaha.

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 2:36PM

I hate how many times this happens:( Sometimes I have to hit reply once, other times I hit reply, the page refreshes and goes to the reply box and then I have to hit reply again...I'm going to put a post-it on my computer that says check twice before replying or something.

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 2:56PM

Double post happens when:

You have problems with your connection.
Hit the Add button twice by accident.
When you refresh.

Or when you use firefox.

Try to go to the main page instead of refreshing.

Also don't take it seriously. You post it twice so what, everyone have posted twice, just get laugh out of it or Spam.

Nigeria @ Mar 6th 2008 3:14PM

spam

Co @ Mar 6th 2008 2:38PM

Probably sucks. Now if they put it out for my Voyager....

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 2:49PM

I hope your trying to be sarcastic...

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 2:57PM

Yeah this thing would be awesome in the Ngage and the Gizmomdo.

Scott @ Mar 6th 2008 8:26PM

Voyager? Sorry, you chose that BREW-tastic device and the sad part is after you add an 8 GB memory card to the price, you've even surpassed the price of an iPhone!

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 3:00PM

I like the idea but I'm worried about the controls.

Using the accelerometer sounds like a bad idea. One bad swing and bye bye Iphone.

kangshi @ Mar 6th 2008 3:13PM

it'll be just like the Wii controller. buy yourself a case with a nice handstrap or expect to keep buying new iPhones.

Marty @ Mar 6th 2008 3:03PM

iPhone is just an expensive piece of garbage anyway.

rTwelve @ Mar 6th 2008 3:17PM

AND it checks your email! No other garbage in its class does it.

NATO_Duke @ Mar 6th 2008 4:01PM

Its the first phone my firm has used that everyone likes - so I can't agree its garbage. It works nice and is user friendly.

colin @ Mar 7th 2008 3:31AM

my blackjack checks my email.

also, 30 fps?
give me 60 fps or GTFO!

Silly Sauce @ Mar 6th 2008 3:04PM

DOUBLE POST FTW

Silly Sauce @ Mar 6th 2008 3:05PM

DOUBLE POST FTW

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 3:11PM

Perhaps That's Spam...naaahhh

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 3:12PM

Perhaps I'll stop spamming...naaahhh

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 3:12PM

Perhaps I'll stop spamming...naaahhh

Mr.ESC @ Mar 6th 2008 3:13PM

Perhaps I'll stop spamming...naaahhh

Okay enough ban dodging.The next time the Banhammer will sure hit so until next time.

Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 6th 2008 4:01PM

naaahhh

SeNiLe911 @ Mar 6th 2008 4:17PM

hhhaaan

rTwelve @ Mar 6th 2008 5:38PM

khhhaaan

Mills and Boom @ Mar 6th 2008 5:42PM

Can't wait for the release. I'm going to start porting my games to it. Since they've been out a few years I'll probably charge a little since I've already covered dev costs.

Wonder if I'll be able to get some form of DLC working since it interfaces with the wifi/edge connection...

Shunnabunich @ Mar 6th 2008 10:28PM

Well, one thing that comes to mind is that the App Store notifies the user if an installed app has been updated to a newer version. Using this method wouldn't allow for *optional* DLC, only content bundled as a stock update, but it would be one way to do it, I suppose.

anton @ Mar 6th 2008 6:14PM

Wait... so Flash is a drain on the battery but Spore isn't? What drugs does Jobs think we're on?

Also, EA, WTF? Why not develop Spore for the major players (360, PS3, Wii, PSP) rather than a toy for the fashion conscious but functionally retarded.

Mills and Boom @ Mar 6th 2008 6:20PM

Got that wrong.

3G was a battery drain.
Adobe want to give Apple the mobile phone Flash... Apple want something new- inbetween phone and computer. Which is what the iPhone is.

Consider yourself caught out.

Mills and Boom @ Mar 6th 2008 6:20PM

anton @ Mar 6th 2008 7:43PM

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/05/steve_jobs_pans_flash_on_the_iphone.html

ill trooper @ Mar 6th 2008 7:54PM

"...rather than a toy for the fashion conscious but functionally retarded"

Angry enough?

From all the people able to see beyond FUD like yours and buy an iPhone, a hearty "Fuck You." Get used to seeing the iPhone, today it just moved into overdrive.

It warms my heart thinking about all you haters getting upset, longterm, ulcer inducing-style.

Mills and Boom @ Mar 6th 2008 9:08PM

Nope. Look up the Adobe comments. They won't make a new Flash for iPhone.

Me and Ill agree haha.

Yea it's an awesome phone. Apparently for customer satisfaction it rules the smartphone market. What a good product it is.
The Blackberry people better have something up their sleeve. Today it was announced it will do everything the blackberry does, and then some.