Bounce on the N900
 

Reggie spotted a new presumably-accelerated Bounce on the Swedish N900 demo video, looks pretty nice and definitely a big step forward graphically compared to most Symbian devices.

http://maemotalk.com/2009/09/04/swed...0-walkthrough/

EDIT: Incidentally do press the video's full screen button if you have a fast connection, the video is surprisingly high quality.

Here are a couple of stills:

http://www.ovigaming.com/images2/gam...ccelerated.jpg

http://www.ovigaming.com/images2/gam...celerated2.jpg

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

It looks good on a big TV too:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/phot...68Tq3I49WXs%3D
http://twitpic.com/g6smv
http://twitpic.com/g6slp

By far the best gaming platform Nokia have, having seen the piss-poor graphics capabilities of the X6 that they were touting.

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

The accelerometer in the n900 open new scenarios in the gaming on the maemo

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The interesting thing is that S60 could have had similar graphics as standard by now if they'd kept fitting graphics hardware as standard on new models, which they did on the N93, N95 and N82 in 2006/2007. The original accelerated demo version of System Rush Evolution looked very good indeed, whereas the final non-accelerated release version played the same but was clearly not as good-looking.

I'm guessing the decision to use Maemo as Nokia's high end platform was made some time in 2007, because that's when Nokia inexplicably stopped including graphics hardware on S60 phones. The N82 was the last Nokia S60 model to have graphics hardware AFAIK.

Samsung has manufactured S60 phones with graphics hardware since then, including touchscreen S60 models, so it's clearly possible yet Nokia chose not to do any more, presumably because they had it in mind to focus entirely on Maemo devices for high end graphics, with S60 aimed more at mid-to-low range prices.

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well, one things for sure..the N900 Bounce game is just amazing.. by the way, i assume it can be played without accelerometer too (if i dont want to be waving with the phone lol)?

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The best thing is: If nokia manages to pull a nice Store (OVI) connection to Maemo, most of game developers (of great games for the iphones for example) will be able to port really fast their games to the N900, after all they are mostly native code with a GL ES engine :)

look at this one, I tested on my ipod touch 2nd gen :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAysP1HM6Z4

This will be nice, I am amazed how great the iPhone games looks, and we (symbian devices) barely could compete.. now it all changes, specially because it's the same "input" - touchscreen accelerometers.

Now we just need multi-touch :))

BR

Marcelo

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Indeed, that is the beauty of opengles 2.0. Anyway, game like that is no more difficult to do for n900 that it is for iphone. And porting of it should be a breeze.

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well i hope that's true because that could be a whole lot of fun if the iphone games were ported to the N900.

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Well... I am yet to find a single OSS iPhone game.

Also, iPhone 1 supports OGLESv1, while iPhone 3G supports OGLESv2 and OpenGLESv1; so I guess most devs use v1. But we're yet to see if the N900 supports OGLESv1.

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

Well, Kate once said: If you still would like use fixed function pipeline to port old not so advanced games, you can
still use OpenGL-ES1.x emulation libraries in maemo. I hope that we can get them in to next SDK release.

As for porting, maybe I missed something, but won't Objective C be a bit of a hindrance for would be porters ? The Maemo -> iPhone direction is easier as IIRC you have gcc and such, but I'm not sure about the state of Objective C on Maemo.

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

Someone tweeted that they had Quake 3 running on the N900; I would love to see a version of Quake 3 that uses the accelerometers to run and jump ;-) How to shoot? Maybe touch screen aiming?

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

PSX emu + 32Gb on board and nothing else matters :)

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I would really like to see some screens of Quake 3 running on N900. I've read the tweets also.

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

hey guys - going to get an n900 too :P

look to the iphone 3gs - quake 3 is no problem and this with 400mhz.

psx will be interesting.. i hope it will run well :)

maybe a nds-emu? :D

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

PSX (bleem) ran well on my Pentium-133. So don't worry about that. :D

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

quake 3 runs beautifully on n900. I think we even tried having two running at the same time.

Anyway, q3 running the default free map was running with 40% cpu idle.

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

Wonderful, i hope it will be available for everyone when we finally have our n900. will it be in the repository (of course without game files)?

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konttori: I hate teases.

Video or it didn't happen!

(even better, a link to the .debs)

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

A video would be wonderful!

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rovio the developers have added a video of bounce evolution to there youtube channel its in HD and shows every detail of the the graphics and game looks even more awesome than the first time i saw it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEKZ6HvgL1o

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

Finally, somebody gets past the 'log bridge' :p

Great video! Thanks for the link!

}:^)~

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It took a couple tries for me but it wasn't really all that hard.

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Took me a while to realise shake-to-jump. But that was back when there weren't any videos or instructions.

Re: Bounce on the N900
 

Or just hit Space. :p