Comments on: All landscape iPhone games should support 180-degree rotation

By: Jeeve

Jeeve — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:47:32 +0000

I hate the port being in the way, it makes gaming with earphones surprisingly uncomfortable. And if I unplug the earphones and use the speaker I end up covering it with my right hand. Lose lose situation!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:26:04 +0000

Yeah, I was thinking about some, but the ones I've reviewed in the past just haven't sounded good enough or lasted long enough on one charge 🙁

By: n00n3imp0rtant

n00n3imp0rtant — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:23:26 +0000

You should invest in some Bluetooth headphones. I've been using the iLuv i202 Bluetooth earclips for well over a year now. It's nice to not be tethered down and I can take phone calls too. The only disadvantage is that the next track/previous track buttons on the actual headphones have no function, but the play/pause and answer call buttons work just fine.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:48:02 +0000

My game, Ground Effect supports automatic rotation. Just turn the device the other way up and it adjusts itself accordingly. I really don’t know why all landscape games don’t work this way.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:42:12 +0000

Just stick with gameloft games they have this feature, gameloft knows what they are doing

By: ChriB

ChriB — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:50:04 +0000

In reply to Thomas. I agree completely, your addition to calibrate the sensitivity would be another great addition.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:52:39 +0000

In reply to ChriB.

not totally sure I understand if you agreed or disagreed on whether it "should" be easy enough to implement a 180 degree rotation.

I'm not a developer myself, just a whiny guy who would very much like for the multitude of awesome iPhone games out there to conform to some sort of standard. One such standard would be the "calibrate" function in many modern accelerometer-based games — some of the earliest iPhone games were sorely lacking in this category and it was a lot harder to play when there was only the default sensitivity setting. I definitely understand how portrait -> landscape is challenging, and I don't think games need that either. LIterally flipping the screen over, though, seems like it should be much simpler. And even if it isn't simple — I still think it's worth taking the time to do for gamers.

By: ChriB

ChriB — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:57:48 +0000

And if you do know how EASY it is to implement such rotation (and as a dev especially these guys should know) than you’ll be even more ashamed.
It’s hard to implement a rotation from portrait to landscape (or the other way round), but this is just too damn easy.