Mobile gaming is huge and it’s just going to get bigger with the advent of better technology and just with the sheer number of programmers hacking away. Unlike console gaming where you need million dollar budget, mobile gaming development can be done garage style with long nights, creativity, and a bit of bravado. Very much like what the kids were doing back in the 80s.
If you’re interested in learning and getting started, Robert Green the developer of Light Racer has written a nice guide. It goes through what you need to get started and some tips and tricks to make the whole process a bit easier for the complete newb.
Read it here …
For Google’s Top 50 Android apps competition, many of the winners were developers who made location based applications. Out of the 46 applications made public, some 27 of them are based around either location or Google Maps. That’s 59% of the successful applications. Google loves its GPS apparently.
[Via ZDNet Asia]
Google has released the names and company affiliations of the 116 judges who helped narrow down the 1,788 Android applications into 50 semifinalist winners. About 18% of the judges were from Google while the rest made up experts from various handset makers, carriers, chip makers and other hi tech areas.
Now here is the part where I gossip like a teenager: Verizon totally wasn’t invited to judge. Verizon has chosen the LiMo Foundation to supply Linux based OS systems so there is clearly bad blood between the two. AT&T wasn’t a judge because it is not part of Google’s open alliance. Companies after the jump. Continue reading ‘Google’s top application judges revealed’
Google’s Android OS has yet to make a full blown appearance on the market and yet we’re getting a glimpse at the various software that will be released. Google has released a list of 50 of what it considers to be the top mobile applications using its OS. The winners were discovered during Google’s Android Developer Challenge which had 1,800 submissions. The winners will eventually be narrowed down to the top 20 and 10 of them will receive $100,000 prizes while the very top will earn $275,000 in prizes.
An interesting note here is that 60% of the winners and applicants were from outside the United States.