Bounce Boing Voyage first motion controlled N-Gage game
Accelerometer hoping to close the gap with the iPhone?
With each new small progression Nokia’s struggling yet beloved games platform makes, it always seems to return to Bounce as its first call in a new port.
N-Gage is now flirting with motion controls, and a revamped version of Bounce Boing Voyage (which is a revamped version of the age old embedded Nokia game Bounce) is to be released that will use newer handset’s accelerometers.
Bounce Boing Voyage is a simple, addictive game that involves rolling a small rubber ball around a variety of assault courses, which makes it the ideal candidate for Nokia to test out motion controls.
To ensure backwards compatibility, it’ll still work with keypad and D-pad controls, though Nokia insists that “most devices coming later this year will feature motion control support”.
The iPhone (and the Wii, to some extent) has pretty much made it a prerequisite for new games to feature some kind of analogue motion sensors. And to be fair, they add a decent degree of functionality to the handset itself, so even if we don’t see all that many N-Gage games adopting the new range of accelerometers, the devices will be richer for them.
