We all remember first Doom then Quake on PCs, don’t we? Spending hours running down tunnels blasting pixelated aliens or networked multiplayer when we should have been working at school or college.
Well, the creators of these classic games are finally bringing them to mobile phones. New company id Mobile is now developing direct ports of the old classics Quake and Wolfenstein to mobiles, as well as a sequel to Doom RPG.
Id Software’s first Doom-related mobile game, Doom RPG, has already sold over one million copies, but in reality it wasn’t quite the same as the old Doom games. It was developed externally by Fountainhead Software and released by Jamdat. The new games will come straight from id Software.
“The whole reason we are in the mobile arena now is I was just really appalled at how bad (cellphone games) were,” Carmack says. “We’re already making profit on 2 million units of games (sold), but we are kind of holding out this hope there might be a breakout moment when the industry gets five to 10 times larger.”
Here’s hoping he’s right.
[Via USA Today]
We remember watching a Quake competition on GamesMaster with Dominic Diamond way back when mobile phones (as they are today) were thought of as a future technology comparable with hover-boards and robot assistants. Who would have thought that one day we would be able to play this once top PC spec demanding game on a phone.
A very competent version of the game can now be played on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 compatible handsets (Nokia N95, Nokia 6120, Nokia 6110) courtesy of the allaboutsymbian forum member, ohinkka. Just goes to show the sort of power that lies under the S60 hood as well as how flexible the Symbian OS can be when clever code-mongers have access to the right tools. Seems like emulated games are enjoying a bit of spotlight time this week. In light of the increased penetration of increasingly powerful handsets, could we be witnessing the beginnings of a lively mobile homebrew scene similar to the one that the PSP enjoys?
Full details about how to get the game up and running on your handset are available on the allaboutsymbian forum. Just to wet your appetite before you get going, here is a video of the game running rather smoothly on a Nokia N95.
(Via Engadget)
