Even Skipping Rocks is a Video Game

Posted on April 5, 2005

These days nearly every activity and every sport you can think of is been made into a video games -- even skipping rocks across a lake. A new mobile game brings the childhood joy of skipping stones to video game form. The game, called Skipping Stone, is developed by Korean developer Gamevil.

I-play has secured the rights to distribute Skipping Stone to its mobile game network. While a video game about skipping rocks doesn't sound exciting IGN says otherwise. IGN Wireless says Skipping Stone is "perhaps the most frighteningly addictive action game we've seen in months ...Skipping Stone is pure entertainment that deserves to be enjoyed on handsets everywhere." Skipping Stone is already a hugely popular mobile game in Korea. Here is i-play's description of Skipping Stone:

The object of the game is to skip a stone across the surface of a lake as many times as possible. The power gauge on the right of the screen allows the player to dose the initial power of the release of the stone. As the user releases the stone at a higher level, the stone starts jumping at a higher initial point, affecting the stone's trajectory. Subsequent skips of the stone on the water must be timed, using one-thumb presses of the key pad, in such a way as to maximize the stone's traveled distance across the lake.

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