Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/03/slice-hd-you-will-hurt-your-fingers-on-your-ipad.ars

by ivank • 15 years ago

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Tycho2• 15 years ago

I've got to try this. I love it when people come up with really original stuff for the iPad like this.

edit: bought it, great fun. the touch interaction works the way you need it to (ie. more advanced than most touch apps) so you can come up with lots of different techniques to beat the levels. when you get cut it does cause a slight 'aaaahh!' reaction and withdrawal of fingers. you get kicked back a level if you get cut, but hey, no pain no game.

barredo• 15 years ago

I'm stuck at level 16 or so, I had to use my nose to touch the red button in one level because I ran out of fingers. Amazing game.

twodayslate• 15 years ago

Use your nose?

VomisaCaasi• 15 years ago

I noticed that when you push blades out, some stay in locked position longer than the others. Start from 8 o'clock and keep going clockwise, very, very fast.

nickolai• 15 years ago

Sounds cool. Makes my hands feel uneasy just reading it.

markkanof• 15 years ago

Agreed. The game definitely creates an engrossing environment. I was cringing just watching the video and thinking about my fingers getting sliced.

heffay• 15 years ago

What a great concept. For $3, I'm all over it. Great use of the multi touch features

leftnode• 15 years ago

It's like Twister but for your fingers and with knives. For $3, I love it.

zrgiu• 15 years ago

wow.. just amazing. Cutting-edge, like someone on ars said

robg• 15 years ago

Simulation at its best! Great app!

Here's a popular story of the "hand" study: http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/19980219bhand1.asp

Here's the paper: http://www.pni.princeton.edu/ncc/publications/1998/Botvinick...

moblivu2• 15 years ago

A true tablet game! Not another try at porting a console or PC gameplay like a First or Third person shooter on this form-factor. This is something that you need a touchscreen device to experience at best. Simply amazing as is the execution!

cageface2• 15 years ago

It's surprising to me how few apps really seem to get the touchscreen. So much of what's on the store would work well enough with a mouse. I guess the upside is that there's still a lot of room for new ideas.

aristus• 15 years ago

I collected a few thoughts about that from friends who do touch apps for a living:

http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/05/wysiwyt.html

TillE• 15 years ago

It's novel, but it's still fundamentally a toy. How long are you going to play with it in total, an hour?

I'm all for innovation, but stuff like this is no substitute for real games.

ugh2• 15 years ago

What's a real game? What do you mean by that?

This is a video game like any other video game, saying that it's no "real" game is nothing more than a veiled insult. You should explain the difference, then you can start insulting.

extension• 15 years ago

How long does a great movie last? A filet mignon? A roller coaster?

artmageddon• 15 years ago

I don't think they wrote the game to compete with the latest iteration of Call of Duty or Halo or anything of that sort.

Tic-tac-toe fits every definition of a "game" and the matches are real short.

forensic• 15 years ago

All games are toys.

roadnottaken• 15 years ago

Anybody figure out how to get past level 10?

Tycho2• 15 years ago

You must 'walk' two fingers in the corners like a treadmill, to draw the spikes back far enough (as long as at least one finger is down at all times it won't spring back), and then time your finger press to the rhythm to avoid the shunting guillotine and hit the exposed button.

geophile• 15 years ago

Killer app

arctangent• 15 years ago

Sharp comments like this are the reason I read HN ;-)

leoc• 15 years ago

Seems Ramachandran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran -inspired, right?

crocowhile• 15 years ago

Thought the very same thing.

some1else• 15 years ago

Cool trick, but the blood spatter could be done a lot better. From what I can see, blood just "grows out of" the point of contact, and a general splat appears all over the screen. I hope knife velocity impacts the blood splat in the next version.

calbear81• 15 years ago

I think that would be more realistic but it might also lose some of that "pow" effect when you get sliced if you saw a dribble of blood pool up then slowly expand outward. Does the iPad have a vibrate function? If it does, I think it would add to it if it vibrated when it hit your finger.

Raphael_Amiard• 15 years ago

dexter ?

bpd1069• 15 years ago

Since you brought up suggestions on how to improve, using the front facing camera to reflect the surrounding area on the blades, would add a touch of realism that would be ire.

edanm• 15 years ago

Looks amazing.

No iPhone version :(

prawn• 15 years ago

Get all your fingers on the screen and it might be a little tough to see what was left to do.

erikig3• 15 years ago

The iPhone version is strictly for masochists.

officemonkey2• 15 years ago

The iPhone version just looks like an electric pencil sharpener.

arn• 15 years ago

Not quite same but similar concept

http://toucharcade.com/2010/05/07/hand-of-greed-dodge-the-bl...

jhuckestein• 15 years ago

I just tried this and I endorse every aspect of the game. I reached lvl 15 and I had to call my roommate in to help me on one level (yea yea cheating ... :()

I do think they should include more boobie traps though. Most levels I played were easy to solve mechanically. I want to be scared to touch ANY part of the screen.

6ren• 15 years ago

One of the few apps that really makes use of multi-touch.

kmfrk• 15 years ago

It's like a Mikado 2.0.

cambriar• 15 years ago

Great job! Definitely creates an environment of fear for the player, just watching the video gave me that 'oh my gosh I'm cutting a lime' feeling.

We HN readers know it takes more than an original idea to shock and awe, nice work on the execution!

risico• 15 years ago

For apps like this it's worth to buy an iPad.

tomjen3• 15 years ago

If that's the case, then this might be the first killer app for the ipad. And the first killer app I have seen in a very long time.

bigiain• 15 years ago

I'm finding myself fascinated and curious about the review...

What a great spin "I was anxiously waiting my review cide, then realized it's three freaking dollars, so I bought it myself". That's marketing/PR/psychological manipulation gold! I'd love to hear aout the process that lead to Ars publishing that for them. Was it just pure dumb luck on the reviewers part? Was it a "primed" phrase from the developers? Or was it part of a carefully planned and highly skilled marketing/PR campaign?

I _really_ like it!

I might even buy the game...

greattypo• 15 years ago

Anyone else beat it? I'm still not sure what exactly happened in that last level..

Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad

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