Carmack returns to cell games with Orcs & Elves
MTVNews has a story on Doomco-creator, and gaming guru, John Carmack’s latest FPS megahit Orcs & Elves; only thing is, it’s not basedon some new super-engine that he hand-coded — usng only one hand, mind you — while building rocketships with theother. Nope, it’s a cell phone game. And it’s not even an FPS really, it’s “an interpolated first-personaction-adventure sort of RPG.” Err, right.
So why return to cell phone gaming so soon after theunlikely hit of last year’s DoomRPG? Sure, Fountainhead, the game design companyworking on Orcs & Elves for EA (who bought Doom RPG’spublisher Jamdat last year) is run by Carmack’s Mrs., but there has to be more to get one of PC gaming’s biggestpower-developers trading in his Ferrari for a Yugo. His vision: “‘I do sort of have this grand scheme of, we doOrcs & Elves and we do a sequel and we go into this massively multiplayer Orcs & Elvesworld.’ He sees people connecting across their cell phones, using the phone’s built-in speaker and earpiece tocommunicate through the fantasy world.”
Some Verizon customers can get the game this Sunday, withadditional cell phone platforms available in July.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments