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iPhone Wheel Game for Trivia
Transcript
Company offered a customizable 3D version of a popular trivia game on iPhone with a great gaming experience
Situation
- A start-up company looking to tap the growing demand for gaming applications on mobile, and wanted to engage the gamers by offering a 3D game on iPhone
Challenge
- To judiciously use the limited screen size of iPhone
- To display wheel as well as question screens
- To retain the context of the game across screen transitions
- The app needed to display questions randomly from a file
- The questions need be to be customizable
- Need for Rapid Application Development game engine, capable of publishing 3D games on iPhone
Harbinger Solution
- An iPhone App using Unity3d Game Framework
- The application displays a wheel to be spun by a fling action on screen
- The application reads the questions and categories from an xml file. Questions are read randomly
- Animations for wheel rotation and transition between screens resulting in a connected and engaging gaming experience
- Accelerometer to tilt the wheel, based on the angle of iPhone while playing
Technologies & Tools
- Unity3D Game Engine for iPhone
- Cinema4D for 3D Asset Creation
- iPhone touch/drag events handled from Unity Game Engine
- JavaScript, XML Parsing for game logic
- File Reading for XML I/O operations
- Animation effects to handle screen transitions and object resizing
Benefits
- The company was able to reduce time to market by moving quickly from conceptualization to delivery of game thereby gaining competitive edge
- Due to customizable questions, the company could stage the same application for multiple types of trivia games
Tags: Game Development