Sweden's Interactive Institute has released a unique, experimental audio game for iPhone. iSpooks: The Manor is an adventure game where the sound is the primary gameplay driver. The game, over 200 MB large, has a surprising lack of graphics. Instead, nearly all the effort has been put into over a thousand sound clips, utilizing the latest in technology, to create a complex game world of sound.
“Sound is incredibly effective in enhancing a game experience since it triggers emotions. Games like this encourage the player to make an inner picture of the game world which we believe give a richer game experience,” says Mats Liljedahl, researcher at Interactive Institute.
iSpooks takes place in a haunted house. The player has to solve a mystery via interaction with the resident ghosts. The over 30 ghosts live in a meticulously designed house, faithfully rendered in 3-D. But, and here's the catch, if you’re not alert you'll miss all this graphic richness.
The makers say that iSpooks has raised some eyebrows because of its size over 200 MB, and yet the player view looks like something from a '70s Atari game.
The iPhone can play multiple sound files simultaneously, which is imperative in order to convey the mood, environment, events and objects in the iSpooks game world.
You can find out more about the game here.
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