My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.
New mobile games book
coultonp | 30 January, 2008 12:33
I thought I would announce the new book I contributed to with my colleague Fadi Chehimi called ‘Games on the Symbian OS’ by my fellow champion Jo Stichbury.
The book itself "shows the potential for creating mobile games for Symbian Smartphone’s such as S60 3rd Edition, UIQ 3 or FOMA devices. It covers various aspects of mobile games on Symbian OS, with contributions from a number of experts in the mobile games industry, including Nokia’s N-Gage team, Ideaworks3D, and ZingMagic, as well as academics leading the field of innovative mobile experiences."
Fadi and I had the pleasure of producing the chapter on using the phone hardware (camera, accelerometers, amongst other fun stuff) and the book will be launched at GDC next month. I have long espoused the need for a book of this sort so was delighted when Jo asked me to contribute. I am speaking at Mobile GDC on “Mobile Games 2.0: the rise of the mobile widget?” so if anyone is going to be there feel free to say high.
Oh yes we will be producing something special for the Boom widget so even if you cant make it dowload it an see what happens
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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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NFC at CES
coultonp | 09 January, 2008 14:14
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Looking backwards and forwards
coultonp | 02 January, 2008 12:59
On this day last year I posted a blog about predicting the main mobile trends for 2007 and suggested a few ideas with the help of a few comments from the community. I thought I would start my year in a reflective mood (must be my age) and see how we did. Location based services have certainly come to the fore (although I am not sure if anyone is actually making any money) but I think we can have a point for that one. Flat rate data tariffs becoming the norm hasn’t come about as widespread as I thought (certainly not in the UK) so I think we only get half for that. The emergence of social sites on mobile is coming about although as yet presence is not really part of the equation so I don’t think we get anything there. Finally the increase in Flashlite content, which has grown but not as much as I expected so might get half a point for that one. Overall this gives us a hit rate of about 50% which is what the article I originally discussed predicted so perhaps no surprises there and shows the dominance of a not so educated guess. In regard to this year I will say:
- ‘Green’ will replace ‘Open’ as this year’s mobile black
- Widgets will become a force in mobile content
- Ad driven content will continue to increase (widgets no doubt being seen as having huge potetial)
- NFC use will start to accelerate and public awareness will grow
Ok so if I’m able to do this again next year we will see how it goes and if anyone wants to add to my rather simple list then please add a comment.
BTW a happy new year to the mobile community in general and lets hope it’s a much fun as last year
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My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.
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