N-Gage Roundup
Happy Tuesday, everybody. I tried out the trial version of Mile High Pinball yesterday, lots of fun. Like you, I’m looking forward to getting my Activation Code. I liked Kusia’s comment on the other thread, “It was just like old times again.” Now, on to today’s posts!
The Sacred Rules of N-Gage games
Tzer2 has laid out some interesting ground rules for N-Gage games, such as always ask if the player wants sound, display the Point Pickups with an explanation in-game, and so on. For example: “Creatures Of The Deep has a perfectly seamless online section, it logs you in without ever leaving the game.”
Take a look and see if you agree with these suggestions.
SNAP Mobile SDK 2.0 Released
The latest version of the SNAP Mobile SDK has been released. From the official release:
After several years of market deployment and continuous technology development based on developer feedback, the SNAP Mobile SDK 2.0 has evolved to make game development even more intuitive with a simpler API, faster emulation and testing tools. The SDK is free of charge and available through Forum Nokia.
More on Reset Generation
Mobile Entertainment has taken a look at the EDGE article about Reset Generation and some of the other previews, and added their own take.
“There’s no seasonality in mobile games - mom won’t wrap one up for you for Christmas,” Foe told Edge. “And there’s no shelf space needed, so we’re looking at an 18-month or three-year sales cycle.”
Have a look.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
The rules by Tzer2 are great, and I hope all future games follow them.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:25 am
hi ikona, great news. I hope all games will follow the hints from tzer2. That would make ngage better. So whats about the next new games? Any hints?
May 7th, 2008 at 3:54 am
We’re all waiting for N93 version.
Good gaming to yo all. We’ll wait, wait and wait
May 7th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Hello,
I updated my phone firm ware and found out few rather unpleasant surprises. Even though my games were installed on external memory and I made a back up from the phone memory, I had to reinstal both n-gage application and the games. Further more all the games had lost my game status and points gathered. I guess it would be good idea to develope n-gage application further, so that it would also store player game status, both private and on-line game status and rankkings, online (though there could be reset, in gamer preferences) as well as game settings.
Games so far have been pretty good. And I have enjoyed what has been available at the N-gage. Application itself and platform needs further development… there should perhaps also be a bit smoother interaction between games and n-gage platform for instance.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Hi Joy Ride,
It sounds like you may have had the First Access version of the N-Gage application installed. The player point databases and game saves were set after First Access ended, in order to let everyone start off on an equal footing.
If that is not the case, or if you have further questions, please visit our Support forums at:
http://forums.arena.n-gage.com/nokia?category.id=supportforums