Old school dungeon crawling on the iPhone

Last week Torch­light was released. Future Shop Techb­log­ger Mat­thew Kumar wrote a great over­view of the game. But there was a time, way back in the last cen­tury, when sim­il­ar com­puter games were played without the bene­fit of 3D graph­ic cards, Dolby Sur­round Sound, or mice and gamepad macro pro­gram­ming applic­a­tions. Strap your­self into the…


Last week Torch­light was released. Future Shop Techb­log­ger Mat­thew Kumar wrote a great over­view of the game. But there was a time, way back in the last cen­tury, when sim­il­ar com­puter games were played without the bene­fit of 3D graph­ic cards, Dolby Sur­round Sound, or mice and gamepad macro pro­gram­ming applic­a­tions. Strap your­self into the way-back machine ’cause we’re going to look at the pro­gen­it­ors of Torch­light, Diablo, and any oth­er hack ‘n slash dun­geon crawl, and we’re going to use the iPhone / iPod Touch to do it. …more



This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.



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