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Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad
- Tycho 16y agoI'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 16y agoI'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 16y agoUse your nose?
- VomisaCaasi 16y agoI 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 16y agoSounds cool. Makes my hands feel uneasy just reading it.
- markkanof 16y agoAgreed. The game definitely creates an engrossing environment. I was cringing just watching the video and thinking about my fingers getting sliced.
- heffay 16y agoWhat a great concept. For $3, I'm all over it. Great use of the multi touch features
- leftnode 16y agoIt's like Twister but for your fingers and with knives. For $3, I love it.
- zrgiu 16y agowow.. just amazing. Cutting-edge, like someone on ars said
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- robg 16y agoSimulation at its best! Great app! Here's a popular story of the "hand" study: http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/19980219bhand1.asp http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/19980219bhand1.asp Here's the paper: http://www.pni.princeton.edu/ncc/publications/1998/BotvinickCohen1998Nature.pdf http://www.pni.princeton.edu/ncc/publications/1998/Botvinick...
- moblivu 16y agoA 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!
- cageface 16y agoIt'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.
- TillE 16y agoIt'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.
- roadnottaken 16y agoAnybody figure out how to get past level 10?
- Tycho 16y agoYou 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.
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- geophile 16y agoKiller app
- arctangent 16y agoSharp comments like this are the reason I read HN ;-)
- leoc 16y agoSeems Ramachandran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran -inspired, right?
- crocowhile 16y agoThought the very same thing.
- some1else 16y agoCool 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 16y agoI 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 16y agodexter ?
- bpd1069 16y agoSince 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 16y agoLooks amazing. No iPhone version :(
- prawn 16y agoGet all your fingers on the screen and it might be a little tough to see what was left to do.
- erikig 16y agoThe iPhone version is strictly for masochists.
- officemonkey 16y agoThe iPhone version just looks like an electric pencil sharpener.
- arn 16y agoNot quite same but similar concept http://toucharcade.com/2010/05/07/hand-of-greed-dodge-the-blade-review-would-you-put-your-hand-in-the-hornets-nest/ http://toucharcade.com/2010/05/07/hand-of-greed-dodge-the-bl...
- jhuckestein 16y agoI 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 16y agoOne of the few apps that really makes use of multi-touch.
- kmfrk 16y agoIt's like a Mikado 2.0.
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- cambriar 16y agoGreat 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 16y agoFor apps like this it's worth to buy an iPad.
- tomjen3 16y agoIf 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 16y agoI'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 16y agoAnyone else beat it? I'm still not sure what exactly happened in that last level..