Comments on: Square Enix Sells Out (Again): Chocobo Panic on the iPad http://Golgotron.com/2010/05/square-enix-sells-out-again-chocobo-panic-on-the-ipad/ Eat the Gtron, bitches! Tue, 22 May 2012 09:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Slackett http://Golgotron.com/2010/05/square-enix-sells-out-again-chocobo-panic-on-the-ipad/#comment-858 Slackett Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:54:54 +0000 http://golgotron.com/?p=4986#comment-858 3 words. Farmville. On. iPad. Now that this is happening it may very well be the next gaming console. 3 words.

Farmville.
On.
iPad.

Now that this is happening it may very well be the next gaming console.

]]> By: Eric http://Golgotron.com/2010/05/square-enix-sells-out-again-chocobo-panic-on-the-ipad/#comment-857 Eric Mon, 31 May 2010 00:13:14 +0000 http://golgotron.com/?p=4986#comment-857 A couple of things... 1) SE has a bunch of games out for iPod Touch (and thus, iPad) and some are decent, but the concept of them selling out to Apple is about a year and a half late. 2) The Kindle is cool but is not backlit and does not do internet browsing. You can aggregate some blogs, but at a price. Plus the iPad supports Kindle books. 3) After picking this up at your behest, I can inform you that it sucks. At first it crashed constantly but after a device reboot, it stabilized. It's Twister for your fingers (and hands actually) and aside from causing some innovation in how you hold the device with no hands, is completely mundane. It literally feels like a tech demo for the physics SDK. I know this because we made a very very similar game at the iPhone dev conference a couple of months ago, all within about an hour and with minor programming. A couple of things…

1) SE has a bunch of games out for iPod Touch (and thus, iPad) and some are decent, but the concept of them selling out to Apple is about a year and a half late.

2) The Kindle is cool but is not backlit and does not do internet browsing. You can aggregate some blogs, but at a price. Plus the iPad supports Kindle books.

3) After picking this up at your behest, I can inform you that it sucks. At first it crashed constantly but after a device reboot, it stabilized. It’s Twister for your fingers (and hands actually) and aside from causing some innovation in how you hold the device with no hands, is completely mundane. It literally feels like a tech demo for the physics SDK. I know this because we made a very very similar game at the iPhone dev conference a couple of months ago, all within about an hour and with minor programming.

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