Wolfenstein 3D Arrives in iPhone App Store

GOOD GOD. Spoiler alert? Hello? Thanks for ruining the grand finale shack. Not everybody knew about MechaHitler. Fuck it. What's the point now.

I bought this last night as soon as it came out. It brought back a flood of memories.

I remember exploring every room and trying to take out and find every enemy. It's true, it's basically a maze game. There was no good explanation for why the elevator is in a different place on every level and we didn't care. We wanted to find every secret and explore every room.

It brought back memories of having the retail version and the hint book with every map of every level, and sharing the book with my buddies.

It brought back memories of when gaming was this thing you thought you discovered by yourself, not something you bitched about on message boards.

Since I was in high school when it came out, it brought back memories of when life was easy - no job (for me anyway), no mortgage, no girlfriend, no worries.

It's great that gaming has matured but this almost makes me pine for the days when it was much simpler and still a lot of fun. But hey, thanks to people like Carmack and platforms like the iPhone, these sorts of games can live forever.

"The official debut follows yesterday's release of the Wolfenstein iPhone source code"

Apple on their SDK NDA: "Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released."

So for a day the NDA was breached? Maybe the NDA says "approved" rather than "released" (and the Apple summary of it was just using sloppier language).

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19504620#itemanchor_19504620

Not saying anyone should get sued; I just think placing an NDA on such a large group of software developers, preventing them from talking in public about software that they are developing, is completely stupid.

It's also interesting to note that this port couldn't have happened with the earlier NDA which didn't allow public release of source at all, since the port uses some GPL'd stuff. (Of course, Carmack could have re-written that stuff to avoid having to release the code, and he thought about doing that anyway for other reasons, as stated in his diary.)

I can't imagine what a PITA it would be to develop for a platform, especially a very new one, where you're prevented from speaking about things to such a degree. It's better than it was but you still can't post on a public programming forum and say "here's what I'm trying to do, can you help?" and equally people cannot say "here's a useful piece of code which could help you" until Apple have approved that code.

Apple still get final say on what does and doesn't ship, and they've had long enough to file patents for the thing. (Especially if you consider the millennia where there was no SDK for it at all.) It seems like control-freakery and nothing more.

Is there any way to switch weapons? It seems that once I find a new weapon, that's the one I'm using for the duration because I can't re-equip anything else.

Looky looky.. The download has a pretty large document from Carmack detailing how this project came about.

am i the only one who doesnt about old games on new platforms?

i want shiny new games.

fuck nostalgia.

end boss spoiler in the pics!

Hmm. They could at least have used the improved graphics from the mac version.

I'm interested, but I'd like to hear some feedback first. I don't know how I feel about FPS games on the iPhone. How much screen real estate is taken up by buttons? How easy is it to move, shoot, and strafe--at the same time?

I'm not expecting frantic multiplayer matches on the iPhone or any handheld, but i do want to be able to play somewhat comfortably, and without having to move awkwardly forward and shoot haphazardly.

I'll buy this, but ONLY if I can plug a Gravis gamepad into my Touch.

Looks pretty sweet, I look forward to seeing id release Doom though as I don't care much about playing Wolf3d. There has been a jailbroken version of Doom out (free of course) for some time now but doesn't run very well. I'm sure Carmack can work some magic on it though.