id software going iPhone

The PC Gamer's patron saint of sunken-chested albino nerds, Mr. John Carmack, is now mulling over a title for the iPhone.

"We have a title we want to develop exclusively for iPhone," he says. "I'm not announcing anything specifically, but it would be a graphical tour de force."

Anna Kang, president of id Mobile, adds "it would not be a new IP," meaning the game would have roots in id's existing catalog, which includes the "Doom, "Quake" and "Wolfenstein" franchises.

An iPhone remake of the Doom RPG would be great: it really was one of the best games I ever played on my cell phones. More likely is some sort of iPhone port of id mobile's terrible Orcs and Elves series. How bland are those games? The title is not self-parodying, which pretty much says all you need to know.

Doom'ing the iPhone [Forbes]

[#1 posted by monstrinho_do_biscoito , July 30, 2008 8:54 AM]

i'm sorry, did you say that Doom RPG was one of the best games you've ever played on a mobile?

did you forget that sarcasm doesn't work in when written down?

it's awful truely, truely dreadful

[#2 posted by John Brownlee , July 30, 2008 9:06 AM]

I actually really liked it. I thought the turn-based combat approach, the RPG aspects and the "new" additions to the Doom constabulary to be pretty fun. For a Java cell phone game, I thought it was top notch.

[#3 posted by dculberson , July 30, 2008 1:54 PM]

I want commander keen!

Oh, crap, that was Apogee.

[#4 posted by stratosfyr , July 30, 2008 2:33 PM]

Forget Doom. Commander Keen!