The new iPhone 3GS has a compass in it, and most certainly it’s going to be used for precision game play at some point.
Then it dawned on me, one of the number one applications of the iPhone is to act as babysitter. You fire up a game and hand it to the kids in the back seat as you’re driving somewhere.
I’m wondering how this is gonna work as people try to play compass-enabled games while moving, say a car, bus, or train.
My first gut instinct is that initial QAing of games will happen seated, but their real use will be in an environment where there’s motion, and at that point this potential problem may start to get noticed. It may surface as bugs, where ‘the game’ did something unexpected.
As for me, I can’t wait to see how a few malicious sharp terms and exit ramps will affect future game play.