| Surfers experience the Billabong Surf Trip video game |
| Friday, 10 September 2010 08:35 |
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The Surf and Gaming media got its first hand’s on look at Billabong’s new surf video game yesterday in the conference room at Bong Headquarters in Irvine California.
“My overall experience with Billabong Surf Trip was a good one,” wrote Matt Dunn from the prestigious game site Touch Gen. “The waves are sweet, the controls are solid, and the various maneuvers actually require some skill and timing to pull off.” The game is a joint project of Apple, Chillingo (the top video distribution group) Biodroid and Billabong. It will be out sometime later in the season, and looks like it has caught the interest of both surfers and gamers with some interesting new features. “It’s the first game to have wave technology that changes features not only at every surf break but on every wave,” said Brad Vandenberg, Billabong Graphic Designer who has been playing a prototype of the game for several months now. “It makes it a unique surf game.”
“Biodroid, the developers of Billabong Surf Trip, said they spent almost 6 months on the algorithms for the procedurally-generated waves in this game, and it definitely shows,” wrote Matt Dunn. |











