Anyone remember Parallax/Interplay's old game Descent? As a kid I had every level memorized. Porting it would create too many copyright issues but I wish there was a great clone of it for the Iphone...
Yes Descent would be awesome! I also want Qix (the real one) and while we are talking old games how about Magic carpet!
It's possible. I seem to recall the source code getting open sourced (not Descent 3, though) at some point. But I think that's ONLY the code. You need to own the actual game if you want the original Descent maps/levels.
It's possible ... but exactly how would you handle flying around in 6 degrees of freedom with no buttons? It was enough fun learning to fly the thing with a keyboard (though I did manage to get good at it). Part of the fun of Descent was precisely that 6DOF you got playing the game; in fact, combat with other bots would be a lot more difficult if you sacrificed some of the movement freedom for the sake of cramming it into an iDevice. I just can't see it being doable, control-wise. Yes, you could use tilt controls for pitch and roll, but combine that with dual sticks for vertical and horizontal sliding, plus yaw, thrust, reverse, primary and secondary fire, and chaff, would just be too damn confusing and move the screen around too much to pay attention to the action.
