I almost fell out of my chair when I saw this one.
Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software, tells VentureBeat that he didn’t even know that technical director, John Carmack, was building an iPhone version of the classic shoot-em-up game, Wolfenstein 3D Classic.
Carmack let the cat out of the bag, though, and Wolf3D quickly rose to the top of iPhone game heap.
“John designed the user interface for it. You can move forward or move back with one thumb, shoot with your fingers, and look around with the other thumb. It’s the full original game from 1992. People thought you couldn’t do 3D games on the iPhone but here it is running. Apple approved it and now it’s available. Last month, we launched Wolfenstein 3D RPG, which is a turn-based game for cell phones. It’s like Doom RPG, for normal phones. Wolfenstein 3D RPG should come out for the iPhone next month. We’ve got an id Classics label that we’re publishing ourselves through the App Store. The next ones John may do are iPhone for the original Doom and so forth.”
Hold the phone. The original Doom?
If you’ll excuse me, I have to go salivate now.
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