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First Mobile Game 2.0
coultonp | 21 January, 2008 15:01
In a previous blog I talked about the presentation Will and I are going to do at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC08) around the paradigms of Web 2.0 as applied to mobile games using widgets. In that Blog I talked about a new game which built upon our previous experience of the WidSets game Bombus. We believe the features of WidSets enable game designers to explore such concepts as perpetual beta and collective intelligence without having to create a large supporting infrastructure and in our follow up study we wanted to explore this further and include ideas of user generated content.
The new game is called BOOM!, a scrolling platform arcade style game:
The interesting part of game is that it’s designed to allow users to upload new maps, tilesets and game attributes to change the game. The idea being that we could create a level editor on the game site so user could create their own content which the community could rank and rate.
Download BOOM! to your WidSets Dashboard:
It will be nice to see if we can also address some of these ideas through WRT but for the moment we will have to wait to see how.
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coultonp | 21/01/2008, 18:16
Bogdan
Glad you like the game. I think the Widsets framework has a lot of very interesting possibilities and for me has lots of elements that really address web 2.0 concepts for lots of applications not just games.
Re: First Mobile Game 2.0
Mofyahproductions | 22/01/2008, 16:48
I find the idea of a mobile game built around the paradigms of Web 2.0 very intriguing and I would like to implement some of those ideas in a trivia game that my company developed based around Soca music.
You can check the game out here:
http://www.mo-fyah.com/products.php
Trivia Games
coultonp | 22/01/2008, 17:40
Looking at your site it would seem relativly straight forward to produce and conteent of questions could be easily updated via an rss feed
Re: First Mobile Game 2.0
Geld Lenen | 28/01/2008, 22:48
Mo-fyah, nice game... would nice to get the source so I could do something with it in my own language :)
Re: First Mobile Game 2.0
Mofyahproductions | 07/02/2008, 11:51
To: Geld Lenen
If you're really interested in using the source we can probably work something out (davidbchamilton@yahoo.com).
The rss feed idea is a good one. The eventual goal is for users to build their own questions. We intend to also start competitions built around the game in Trinidad by the end of this month (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUxRVJQ5lmE).
Re: First Mobile Game 2.0
bogdan.galiceanu | 21/01/2008, 17:53
For a widget game it is great. Seems Widsets will bring contribution to varying domains of the mobile industry. This is shaping up to be quite a doorway to many new possibilities.