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WidSets the new multiplayer casual games platform

coultonp | 11 April, 2008 15:23

I recently encouraged a couple of our MSc students (Klen Copic Pucihar and Leon Laxman) to enter the Forum Nokia sponsored WidSets competition on Betavine . I suggested it would be interesting to have a go with the new 'channels' functionality (this is a very early release) which allows you to allow users to communicate with each other in real-time i.e. you can create multiplayer gaming, chat rooms, instant messaging etc.

The result is this very interesting version of the classic 4 in a row game mechanic. As the following video shows you can check who’s on line and who wants to play and then make a challenge. BTW this is in real-time across the mobile network and without a 3G connection!

 

 

Although the game is quite straight forward, and it might be nice to add an in game  chat or taunt facility , it does illustrate the interesting possibilities for WidSets Widgets as a great casual games platform which would seem complimentary to the new n-gage platform.

For me the nice thing about WidSets is I can mix games on my dashboard with news and other feeds and I would like to see such a ‘widgety ‘  dashboard as my main phone screen with suitable extensions to access phone features

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Apologies to Hartti

Mystic Monkey | 17/04/2008, 19:01

I had a comment from Hatti which i some how managed to delete so just to say thanks for the appreciation even though you hate these games ;)

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