A good idea?
I think so, but Peter is most likely not going to go with Nintendo or Nintenod will disaprove the AR Concept.
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cablelag wrote:I think Armadillo Run DS would be an awesome idea. The stylus is the perfect control for it. And the 67mhz ARM 9 processor in the DS is plenty to run AR at a resolution of 256x192 with all physics calculations as well.
Armadillo Man wrote:cablelag wrote:I think Armadillo Run DS would be an awesome idea. The stylus is the perfect control for it. And the 67mhz ARM 9 processor in the DS is plenty to run AR at a resolution of 256x192 with all physics calculations as well.
Remember that even with a zoom feature, you wouldn't just have to calculate the stuff that goes on within the visible area, but everything else as well. It wouldn't have to be displayed, but the physics simulation would have to be just as accurate outside the viewing area.
And then there's the issue of storage space for solutions and self-made levels. I honestly don't know how much rewritable space there is on a game card, but it seems to be quite limited.
Besides, I'm not so sure about the stylus being the perfect control for Armadillo Run. I mean, it isn't; the mouse is. Sure, the stylus is far better than a D-pad for virtually any mouse-driven game, but in my experience it is quite inaccurate, compared to a proper mouse. I'm playing Age of Empires DS now, and I often have to use the D-Pad controls because the stylus controls simply aren't accurate enough.
I love my DS, but I have to admit I can't see a DS version of Armadillo Run being anywhere near as interesting as the PC version. I fear frustrating controls, and for such an advanced physics simulation to work, there would have to be a lot of limitations (as someone else said, cloth would perhaps have to go, and there would probably have to be limitations on the number of objects used as well).
Perhaps it could still be fun. But Armadillo Run 2 (or an entirely new project) would probably be a much better way for Peter Stock to invest his time.
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