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My principal interest in mobile 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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Category: S60

Motion Controlled 3D Multi-player Space Game

Having created a lot of interest in the community with our first motion controlled 3D game Mirage Money , Fadi and I are now unveiling its cooler big brother Mirage Space. It uses the same S60 Mirage-X API to create a motion controlled 3D space battle game in which you...

Motion Controlled 3-D Game now available MOSH

Having been inundated with requests for the Motion Controlled 3-D game Mirage Money from my last blog , Fadi and I have now made the game available absolutely free on MOSH . However, we would very much appreciate feedback from users on their experience both on suggestions for...

A Zero Button Game

I have been meaning to write this blog since the Champion day in Singapore (yes I know I am slack) as it sprang from a conversation I was having with Kevin Sharp over dinner. Basically, we were talking about mobile interfaces and in particular the desirability of the one button game but...

Augmenting our Mobile Reality!

Once again its been too long since I had time to blog. Recently my student Fadi Chehimi and I have been working on the revisions of our paper “Augmented Reality 3D Interactive Advertisements on Smartphones” that was accepted for ICMB 07 and I thought its now a good time to share...

could you be an urban outlaw?

We have finally got round to arranging large scale experimental evaluation of our research project the serendipitous proximity shoot-em-up game Mobslinger . We have therefore just put a beta version of the game on our site for testing by...

Mobile laser tag using S60 camera phones

Here is a research project I have been doing with my PhD student Fadi Chehimi which attempts to take another look at using the camera on phones in games and particular harnessing some of the power of S60 (something, with a few notable exceptions, I feel hasn’t been fully explored in...

Using gesture as an interface for mobile applications

Last week I was at the Game Developers Conference and heard many complaints about lack of innovation. With this in mind I gave a lecture on “Using Touch, Sight, and Gesture in Mobile Games”. Whilst I covered using RFID/NFC and the Camera on the mobile phone as a novel interface,...

Shameless book plug!

Having finally finished the version 9.0 S60 book I have been working on for a while with my fellow authors Reuben Edwards and Helen Clemson plus many others at Symbian Press and Wiley and I though I would share my joy in the fact that I have been told it will be launched at 3GSM in a few...

When hand waving becomes a dangerous sport!

I have been following the growing number of wii related accidents on the aptly named, wii have a problem , which ranges from black eyes and cut hands, from inadvertently hitting light fittings or friends, to broken monitors if the straps on the controller break. This...

mobile games for the blind?

I have been at the Fun ‘n Games conference presenting some of our projects including the mobslinger game I blogged last week. There was a very interesting paper by Matthew Atkinson about making games accessible to the blind and partially sighted using an example of Audio-Quake. He...

Bluetooth 'Wild West' proximity game

Despite being over exited by the prospect of the 3-D sensor on the 5500 I though I would highlight another new game we have developed called ‘mobslinger’ which brings together some of the recent discussions regarding Bluetooth and MoSoSo. Mobslinger runs as a...

whatever happened to Nokia Sensor?

I am travelling in India at the moment at have been inundated with Bluetooth messages since I arrived. This surprised me somewhat as the craze for Bluejacking died out in the UK a couple of years ago and I now tend to leave my Bluetooth on to access my GPS unit. Having discussed this...