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Monday, April 16, 2007

Tablet gaming

The payment of the tablet goes through today. Hopefully this means that it will ship from www.penta.com.au today (been very helpful) and be in my hands by tomorrow or Thursday. I'm bursting with anticipation.
I've been searching around for ink enabled games on the prominent tablet blogging sites and most of them have only come up with a few lame flash games. I know there's probably not much call for tablet/ink enabled gaming at the moment but I have a feeling that people are going to start using the stylus much more frequently as screens become less of a 'look but don't touch' item and more of a 'let me get my grubby mits on it'. With this use and the enabling of better hardware, surely a market for gaming will develop. I remember a game called Black and White that was out years ago that had an interesting input method. I never played it myself but I did see it being played and it looked like it would fit in with tablet pcs well. Here's a link to Black & White 2 which I will be checking out.

Edit: This, from the site, is worrying. I guess it won't work
* Black&White 2 requires a 64MB video card with 1.1 Pixel Shader support. Supported video cards: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti series, GeForce FX series, GeForce 6200 or greater; ATI Radeon 8500 or greater, ATI Radeon X300 or greater. DirectX 9.0c is included on this disc and may require the latest drivers for your video and sound card.

I've also found the FallingSand game which might be amusing for a while.
Please add comments if you know of any other games that would be suitable for the tablet.

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