N900 Videos

Twaelti has prepared this video demonstrating Quake III Arena running on an N900. The Maemo port was done by omcfadde, and makes use of the internet tablet’s hardware interfaces:

• the accelerometer to move and jump
• the touchscreen to aim, and
• the proximity sensor to fire

The game looks quite playable and frame rates are good.

The video shows the game on an “old TV”, using the N900’s TV-out facility. In the video, Twaelti takes us through a few levels and sometimes holds the internet tablet in front of the TV so that we can see how it’s being played.

Bounce Evolution is a 3D graphics game from Rovio which runs quite well on the N900. Your mission is to steer a ball along a torturous course.

You steer the ball (using the accelerometer) and control its speed by tilting the N900. You can also make the ball jump by shaking the phone the correct way.

The frame rate seems reasonable, and the motion seems smooth. In theory, the N900 pushes fewer polygons to the screen per second than the iPhone 3GS (but more than the iPhone 3G), and the N900 has two and a half times as many pixels to paint, but this game doesn’t seem to strain the N900 too hard.

Of course, the N900 has true multi-tasking so you do need to make sure that you don’t have too many things running in the background if you want the game to be highly responsive.

(via ubergizmo)