Seven new patent filings from Destiny developer Bungie have been unearthed, predominantly all linked to virtual controls on touch-enabled devices, lending further credence to reports earlier this year that it had a Destiny mobile game in the works.
Those reports first surfaced back in July, when The Game Post, citing a source with knowledge of Chinese mobile developer NetEase’s plans, claimed the company was collaborating with Bungie to bring a completely new instalment in the Destiny series to mobile – a project said to have already been in development for several years.
It’s in this context that the seven newly unearthed Bungie patents (as spotted by The Game Post) prove particularly interesting. Almost all the patents, published last week, pertain to the implementation of a virtual controller on touch-enabled devices, with individual filings focusing on state-based action buttons, virtual dynamic ledge grabbing, virtual infinite drag and swipe input, virtual automatic aiming (particularly in relation to an ‘isometric/top-down’ perspective), and action charging via virtual buttons.
Source – eurogamer.net
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