New Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-game by Hothead Games

[Chyron8472]

I've watched the TV series, the movie and read the first 3 books of the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. I've also listened to the unabridged audiobooks of said books as read by Adams himself.

To be honest, I liked the movie. Sure, it had its faults (like the mud scene) which I do take issue with, but I thought the spirit of the books was still there. So the same for Lord of the Rings. My wife is a purist with LOTR and, despite it being one of her favorite movie series, loves to nitpick at the problems it has (such as Faramir's character being ruined) but I still enjoyed it. We do, however, make a point to only ever watch the LOTR Extended Edition or the Fan Edit by Kerr.

[DAISHI]

yeah I consider the movie its own entity worth watching.

[zmally]

I remember playing Starship Titanic, and really s*****g myself when John Cleese came into the game as the bomb, I spent hours trying to stop it. I never once even considered that it was just a joke, and I wasn't actually going to die..
I'm looking forward to it, as long as they don't stray far from the original radio/tv/book series, and stick very close to Douglas Adams' unique sense of humour.

[corruptbiggins]

It's an iOS app - more details here: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08...ikers-ios-app/

[Irishmile]

FUUUUUH!!!! DANG iOS gets everything..... <throws windows phone>

[ShaggE]

Originally Posted by corruptbiggins

It's an iOS app - more details here: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08...ikers-ios-app/

That does it! I have had it up to HERE (my hand is currently hovering at forehead level) with anticipated games and ports being revealed as mobile apps at the last minute.

[FitzoliverJ]

Originally Posted by corruptbiggins

It's an iOS app

So what in the planet of hell is the point of all that? Belgium, man, Belgium....

[zmally]

Wait, it's not even a game!? Did I read this properly, or is this pretty much an interactive encyclopaedia, much like the ACTUAL Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

If so, I'm astonished! Everyone was worried the developer was doing something too different and it might not turn out very good? Looks like they're creating a novelty toy. Oh dear.

[DrRocketGenius]

I'm disappointed, to say the least.

[LuigiHann]

Guess I'm alone in thinking this is kind of cool? I love having fictional objects turned into real-world objects. I didn't have high hopes for them making a particularly good Hitchhiker's Guide game, but this seems like something that I trust they'll be able to excel at.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by LuigiHann

Guess I'm alone in thinking this is kind of cool? I love having fictional objects turned into real-world objects. I didn't have high hopes for them making a particularly good Hitchhiker's Guide game, but this seems like something that I trust they'll be able to excel at.

This.

Next thing you know is when someone announces they're making a BTTF game and it turns out to be an iOS recreation of the Delorean that lets you actually travel in time everyone will complain.

[LuigiHann]

Originally Posted by Ribs

This.

Next thing you know is when someone announces they're making a BTTF game and it turns out to be an iOS recreation of the Delorean that lets you actually travel in time everyone will complain.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flux-...391862376?mt=8

It does get a bit old. Hopefully the H2G2 app will have enough entries that I won't go through them all in one sitting.

[Sausy Gibbon]

Sounds alright but I have a feeling it will be quite brief on articles.

[ShaggE]

Originally Posted by Ribs

This.

Next thing you know is when someone announces they're making a BTTF game and it turns out to be an iOS recreation of the Delorean that lets you actually travel in time everyone will complain.

Damn right I will, I can't afford no iPhoneamajigger, time machine or not.

[Sausy Gibbon]

Easy kill a man with the new app steal his iphone and then laylow in a different century till it all blows over. The plans perfect unless they come up with somekind of time police.

[Molokov]

Well considering the BBC shut down h2g2.co.uk, maybe this is a replacement? But with entries about the fictional universe rather than, you know, ours?

[corruptbiggins]

Originally Posted by Molokov

Well considering the BBC shut down h2g2.co.uk, maybe this is a replacement? But with entries about the fictional universe rather than, you know, ours?

The BBC hasn't shut down H2G2, it's been under refurbishment and is now here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by LuigiHann

Guess I'm alone in thinking this is kind of cool? I love having fictional objects turned into real-world objects. I didn't have high hopes for them making a particularly good Hitchhiker's Guide game, but this seems like something that I trust they'll be able to excel at.

Actually, the book's description of the Hitchhiker's Guide itself is less like an iPad or iPhone, but more that of an ebook reader--in the style of Kindle (ie. it has physical buttons) though the Guide's hardware displays in color; reads entries to you aloud in a still, quiet, measured voice (as opposed to our modern mechanical sounding text-to-speech) while the text appears on screen; has an extremely large memory capacity by 1979 standards (when HHGG was first published); and has only one ebook on it--the Guide software itself.

Not forgetting the plastic cover with the words "Don't Panic" on it, but I could probably get one of those for my Kindle.

a device that looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million “pages” could be summoned at a moment’s notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON’T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor—The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.

“You press this button here, you see, and the screen lights up, giving you the index.”
A screen, about three inches by four, lit up and characters began to flicker across the surface.
“You want to know about Vogons, so I entered that name so.” His fingers tapped some more keys. “And there we are.”
The words Vogon Constructor Fleets flared in green across the screen.
Ford pressed a large red button at the bottom of the screen and words began to undulate across it. At the same time, the book began to speak the entry as well in a still, quiet, measured voice.

EDIT: also, there's this:

[LuigiHann]

I suppose I should say that the app is not entirely unlike the real Hitchhiker's Guide

[DAISHI]

I'm going to get it.