Marketing has figured it out! They’re going to save the company! And you know who gets to help? You!!! That’s right: YOU!!!
Designer,
There is one thing the world needs! One thing only you can bring!
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The world needs more iPhone Advergames.
This Week's Challenge:
Design a game for the iPhone.
Challenge Details:
The word’s come down from on high, the whole company is tasked with prototyping advergames fro the iPhone. You can choose any company you want because boy can you bet we’re pitching to them all!
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Flipping through the iPhone manual you come across the following tasty bits of designtastic information:
1. It has an accelerometer
2. It has full six access motion controls
3. It has an electrostatic touch screen
4. The screen is a Multi Touch screen
5. It has a camera!!
6. Has GPS (or simulated GPS -- or CoreLocation...if you want to use the lingo)
7. Has a rumble control
8. It has wireless capabilities
9. It can utilize SMS
10. You can assume it has a 8 gigabyte hard drive
11. You have access to everything a user might have put on that drive (i.e. music, bookmarks, calendar &c.)
12. Plan on no more than 6 hours battery life
13. It has full support for open GL (i.e. you can do stuff in 3d!)
14. Oh, and it’s a phone
DESIGN TEAM...GO!
When you think you’re ready, email your ideas to Jportnow@gmail.com he’ll make sure they get forwarded to the right people...oh and remember, no PDFs!
We've had a lot of people asking...so the deadline is:
Wednesday August 6th
If you have any questions, feel free to post them here.
The first place winner receives a free one year subscription to edge!
Disclaimer: Edge, James Portnow, and entities associated with James Portnow or Edge are not responsible for similarities between the content submitted to James Portnow's Game Design Challenge and any existing or future products or intellectual property.
(Forgive the disclaimer, we have to do it...)