Comments on: 'Little Metal Ball' - A Tilt-Controlled Adventure/Platformer http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/ ... keeping in touch with the latest in iPhone gaming Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: st http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-53000 st Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:02:39 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-53000 There's a yahoo group for oxyd fanatics...it includes links to modern updates and offshoots of Oxyd...check it out.. There's a yahoo group for oxyd fanatics...it includes links to modern updates and offshoots of Oxyd...check it out..

]]> By: st http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-327655 st Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:02:00 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-327655 There's a yahoo group for oxyd fanatics...it includes links to modern updates and offshoots of Oxyd...check it out.. There's a yahoo group for oxyd fanatics...it includes links to modern updates and offshoots of Oxyd...check it out..

]]> By: Adams Immersive http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-49193 Adams Immersive Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:53:06 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-49193 Oxyd (and the sequel Per.Oxyd) had a black ball that was really just a mouse pointer—but with a little bit of inertia, and it would bounce back from walls or be harmed by traps. I liked the feel of that. It would work great on iPhone just by treating the whole screen as a touchpad (so it wouldn’t matter where your finger was, but rather what motions you made). I’d definitely want to buy! Someone should track down the creator :) Oxyd (and the sequel Per.Oxyd) had a black ball that was really just a mouse pointer—but with a little bit of inertia, and it would bounce back from walls or be harmed by traps. I liked the feel of that. It would work great on iPhone just by treating the whole screen as a touchpad (so it wouldn’t matter where your finger was, but rather what motions you made).

I’d definitely want to buy! Someone should track down the creator :)

]]> By: Adams Immersive http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-327654 Adams Immersive Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:53:00 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-327654 Oxyd (and the sequel Per.Oxyd) had a black ball that was really just a mouse pointer—but with a little bit of inertia, and it would bounce back from walls or be harmed by traps. I liked the feel of that. It would work great on iPhone just by treating the whole screen as a touchpad (so it wouldn’t matter where your finger was, but rather what motions you made). I’d definitely want to buy! Someone should track down the creator :) Oxyd (and the sequel Per.Oxyd) had a black ball that was really just a mouse pointer—but with a little bit of inertia, and it would bounce back from walls or be harmed by traps. I liked the feel of that. It would work great on iPhone just by treating the whole screen as a touchpad (so it wouldn’t matter where your finger was, but rather what motions you made).

I’d definitely want to buy! Someone should track down the creator :)

]]> By: The Theory http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-49189 The Theory Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:23:30 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-49189 YEAH. That's the one! It's been waaaay too long since I've played (horrible how computer upgrades render older games moot.heh)... but you may be right about the control. Someone, make this happen! YEAH. That's the one!
It's been waaaay too long since I've played (horrible how computer upgrades render older games moot.heh)... but you may be right about the control.

Someone, make this happen!

]]> By: The Theory http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-327653 The Theory Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:23:00 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-327653 YEAH. That's the one! It's been waaaay too long since I've played (horrible how computer upgrades render older games moot.heh)... but you may be right about the control. Someone, make this happen! YEAH. That's the one!
It's been waaaay too long since I've played (horrible how computer upgrades render older games moot.heh)... but you may be right about the control.

Someone, make this happen!

]]> By: Adams Immersive http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-49120 Adams Immersive Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:12:23 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-49120 You don’t meen Oxyd by any chance do you? I enjoyed that on Amiga and Mac, although it cries out for swipe rather than tilt controls, as the only physics involved is in collisions, not rolling/momentum. You don’t meen Oxyd by any chance do you? I enjoyed that on Amiga and Mac, although it cries out for swipe rather than tilt controls, as the only physics involved is in collisions, not rolling/momentum.

]]> By: Adams Immersive http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-327652 Adams Immersive Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:12:00 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-327652 You don’t meen Oxyd by any chance do you? I enjoyed that on Amiga and Mac, although it cries out for swipe rather than tilt controls, as the only physics involved is in collisions, not rolling/momentum. You don’t meen Oxyd by any chance do you? I enjoyed that on Amiga and Mac, although it cries out for swipe rather than tilt controls, as the only physics involved is in collisions, not rolling/momentum.

]]> By: The Theory http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-49078 The Theory Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:18:38 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-49078 This is probably totally the wrong place to post this, but anyone remember the old Macintosh shareware game Onyx? I got it off of one of the MacAddict CDs if I remember right. Anyway, it was a ball rolling puzzler that would be absolutely perfect on the iphone/touch platform. I'd love to see it ported over. This is probably totally the wrong place to post this, but anyone remember the old Macintosh shareware game Onyx? I got it off of one of the MacAddict CDs if I remember right. Anyway, it was a ball rolling puzzler that would be absolutely perfect on the iphone/touch platform. I'd love to see it ported over.

]]> By: The Theory http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-327651 The Theory Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:18:00 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-327651 This is probably totally the wrong place to post this, but anyone remember the old Macintosh shareware game Onyx? I got it off of one of the MacAddict CDs if I remember right. Anyway, it was a ball rolling puzzler that would be absolutely perfect on the iphone/touch platform. I'd love to see it ported over. This is probably totally the wrong place to post this, but anyone remember the old Macintosh shareware game Onyx? I got it off of one of the MacAddict CDs if I remember right. Anyway, it was a ball rolling puzzler that would be absolutely perfect on the iphone/touch platform. I'd love to see it ported over.

]]> By: Ryan Rigney http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-49042 Ryan Rigney Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:00:12 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-49042 Review side note: I spoke to Adam Cohen, the creator of LMB, and he explained the image resolution issue to me. The images were compressed slightly, but this was for two reasons - 1) The download size for the game was reduced by up to 10x 2) in-game texture loading as the map scrolls became a lot easier, allowing the game to maintain its 60 FPS on devices other than the 3GS Review side note:

I spoke to Adam Cohen, the creator of LMB, and he explained the image resolution issue to me. The images were compressed slightly, but this was for two reasons -

1) The download size for the game was reduced by up to 10x
2) in-game texture loading as the map scrolls became a lot easier, allowing the game to maintain its 60 FPS on devices other than the 3GS

]]> By: Ryan Rigney http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/03/little-metal-ball-a-tilt-controlled-adventureplatformer/#comment-327650 Ryan Rigney Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=29175#comment-327650 Review side note: I spoke to Adam Cohen, the creator of LMB, and he explained the image resolution issue to me. The images were compressed slightly, but this was for two reasons - 1) The download size for the game was reduced by up to 10x 2) in-game texture loading as the map scrolls became a lot easier, allowing the game to maintain its 60 FPS on devices other than the 3GS Review side note:

I spoke to Adam Cohen, the creator of LMB, and he explained the image resolution issue to me. The images were compressed slightly, but this was for two reasons -

1) The download size for the game was reduced by up to 10x
2) in-game texture loading as the map scrolls became a lot easier, allowing the game to maintain its 60 FPS on devices other than the 3GS

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