The 25 finalists of the IMGA Award 2007 have been announced:
Best Casual Game
Dip, Anino Mobile, Philippines, Java
Doggy Spanish, Com2us, South Korea, Java
Mr. Ice Cream, Pixelthis, New Zealand, Flash
The Gridleys, Ziggurat Interactive, US, Brew
Treasure Arm, Tequila Mobile, Poland, Java
Best IP Licensed
The Crystal Maze, Dynamo Games, Scotland, Java
Office Games 2, Indiagames, India, Brew
Rounders Poker, Nazara, India, Brew
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Here some more content from Felipe showing differences between Flash Lite and J2ME. There are some great example with source code.
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Here is a great post from Masabi, “A Mobile Software Primer“. A really great post with stats and great analisys of the mobile landscape including Flash Lite.
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Vai Leonardo, here another tutorial about J2ME form the Rome Adobe Mobile and Device User Group: J2ME Guide – Part 3
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The Rome Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group has a couple of J2ME tutorial online:
J2ME Guide Part 1
J2ME Guide Part 2
They will soon have other tuttorials.
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Felipe is working hard to add more functionality to the Flyer open source project by having a Mobile Pack to simplify installation and provide Google Gear integration.
Flyer Google Code.
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Nokia announced that Widsets has reached 1 millions register users. Check out their developer site.
I also have my own widsets that you can get here.
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Interesting article from Fejes about his views on developing using Flash Lite. Here his final thoughts:
“As I am a developer more accustomed to object-oriented programming platforms and languages, I must admit that I’ve found the animation and movie-based logic in the IDE and in the language quite different from anything else I’ve done. I guess [...]
On Wednesday there will be a free online eSeminar: Flash Lite vs. J2ME. There are two sessions for different time-zone. There is still space to register.
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On March 21st there will be an online eSeminar: Flash Lite vs. J2ME.
“This eSeminar will provide a brief introduction to Flash Liteâ„¢ and J2ME. The technologies each have inherent advantages and disadvantages, and this eSeminar will use common application examples to highlight how these differences impact both developers and users.â€Â
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The Rome Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group announced the winners of the Flash Lite and J2ME game contest.
Here are the Flash Lite winners:
Evan Green: Ping 520
Luciano Ayres: Bone Smashers
Evan Green: Flow Panic
Here are the J2ME winners:
Eric Feng: SuperKake
Pasi Kainiemi: Climberman
Romeo Kollar: Block Fusion
Congratulation to the winners!!
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Forum Nokia released a set of white papers for the SNAP (Scalable Network Application Package) Mobile, a Java platform that can be used to create Mutiplayer Gaming application/platform:
SNAP Mobile SDK 1.3.1
SNAP Mobile: Game Developer’s Guide for Javaâ„¢ ME Clients v2.3
SNAP Mobile: Registration and Login Guidelines for Javaâ„¢ ME Clients v3.3
SNAP Mobile: Ranking Guide for Javaâ„¢ [...]
The Rome Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding a free eSeminar on the 13th March 2007 topic: Flash Lite vs J2ME
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Meeting Agenda:
Quick introduction to Flash Lite and J2ME
Develop a game in Flash Lite e J2ME
How to develop a network-oriented application considering the security issues in Flash Lite and J2ME
Work flow to follow in [...]
Via Vivek, an article on the state of mobile in Australia. Some quotes from Dale!! An interesting article to understand the Australia mobile ecosystem.
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There is a new article in the Adobe Mobile section site: Porting J2ME games to Flash Lite. The author of the article is Mariam.
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Well, that’s not my sentence but his. I won’t go through the Adobe business model, but rather to the Flash Lite content. The most selling content in mobile is content to personalize your mobile phone. This is true especially outside US. The mobile phone is very personal object.
So the criticism about Flash Lite just doing [...]
The S40 SDK for 3rd Edition FP 2 from Nokia has Flash Lite 2.
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