Fleet Commander - U Illinois at Chicago grad student Arthur Nishimoto creates videogame with multitouch interface

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From the site:

"Overview

Defeat the enemy fleet while defending your own. Using TacTile, a multi-touch display, play with multiple players to deploy crusiers, destroyers, corvettes, fighters, bombers, and mighty superweapons to win the battle.

Fleet Commander began as my second generation game for TacTile. I wanted to take a real time strategy game and adapt it to a table-top, multi-touch interface. One of my main goals was to create a multi-touch touch interface that would provide the core commands that one would expect to see in a real time strategy game such as deploying units, issuing movement and attack commands, and activating special abilities. Just for fun, the game features a full Star Wars theme complete with iconic ships, sounds, and music - all of which is property of Lucasfilm...."

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