First Nokia game to use digital compass sensor lands on Ovi Store Tweet

GLOBAL – The N97 mini and N97 are the first handsets to play host to a new game that utilizes the talents of the digital compass sensor ( or ‘magnetometer’ as it’s otherwise known). Space Impact: Meteor Shield has just landed on planet Ovi Store, and you can downloaded it for free. Read on to find out more about how it uses the digital compass sensor as an innovative control method.

The concept for Space Impact: Meteor Shield is a simple arcade affair – you’re planet Earth’s last hope, and are tasked with taking the controls of a gun turret to protect the world from incoming showers of meteors and alien hordes. Holding the device upright, with the screen parallel to the ground, you control the turret by rotating the phone on its vertical axis, as if you were sat in the hot seat spinning on the spot – never before has the digital compass sensor been used in a game, so it’s great to see it find an effective and suitable home here. As you spin around you get bombarded by incoming attackers that you’re able to fend off by tapping the touchscreen to shoot.

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