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Here’s a idea I’ve been kicking around that maybe an iPhone developer out there might find useful. I was thinking about how racing games might be controlled on the iPhone and the most obvious answer is that you would tilt the iPhone from side to side like a steering wheel. However, when you do this it makes the game a little awkward to play because the screen and visual would tilt as well.

So, I got the idea that whenever the accelerometer detected horizontal tilting of the device, it would then rotate the visuals in the opposite direction to keep the game’s horizon line level with the player’s. This would make the iPhone feel more like a real steering wheel since the iPhone would appear to the player to turn independently of the game visuals. I’ve created the following video to demonstrate this concept.

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