One developer managed to turn his iPhone into a gaming device suited for playback on big-screen TV’s, he managed to do this with a little work and the help of an undocumented feature in Apple’s iPhone Software Developers Kit.
ArsTechnica’s Erica Sadun discovered the hidden MPTVOutWindow class in the iPhone SDK last month, and he got in touch with makers of Moto Chaser, Freeverse, and encouraged them to experiment with the APIs. Take a look at the video below to watch the TV version of the game.
The Moto Chaser game uses the iPhone’s accelerometer for input and steering while routing the game’s video through a video-out cable to the TV. Freeverse noted that the program ran best on the second-generation iPod touch, which includes a 532MHz processor compared to the iPhone and iPhone 3G’s 412MHz chip.
“norm for commercial games is 30fps, a point at which motion becomes as smooth and watchable as normal TV video.” says Producer Bruce Morrison. Sound quality, however, was said to be greatly improved when pumped through a respectable sound system.
“When Morrison approached senior programmer Mark Levin, he had basically one set of instructions. ‘Make it work before lunch.’,” Ars reported. “Freeverse had very little time to allocate to putting together the demo. In the end, the entire development effort took about three hours.”
Wow, the possibilities are endless, the iPhone is slowly turning into a great game console. Jusr imagine pairing your iPhones on your Apple TV so tht it can serve as a video game controller. [ArsTechnica]
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