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PSP Flash Contest: “TYPE THIS”

August 16th, 2006 by Scott Janousek
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FITC and SilverPlatter are sponsoring a PSP development contest to find the “coolest Flash application” to utilize the new PSP keyboard that is coming out in the Spring of 2007.

For more information check out: The “TYPE THIS” contest

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 5:03 pm and is filed under FITC, Flash, Flash PSP, PSP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “PSP Flash Contest: “TYPE THIS””

  1. g.wygonik Says:
    August 17th, 2006 at 9:56 am

    That’s great! Except that there are no details on the rules/entry form, or the Silver Platter site, as to HOW “the new keyboard” will function… What keys are on it? Will keys auto-repeat in Flash? Function keys? Ctrl/Alt Keys?

    While we can all create some killer apps that rely on “normal” keyboard functionality, the one thing i’ve learned so far with the Flash player on the PSP is not to expect the “normal” to work. :-)

  2. Hayden Says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 12:27 pm

    Yes, a contest like this is not particularly useful if you come up with something that works great on desktop keyboard, but not at all with PSP keyboard because it is limited to text entry only, no keypress events.

    We might assume they have one of these keyboards to test out on PSP. I just emailed them about keyboard functionality with Flash. I’ll post back if I get any useful info.

  3. Scott Janousek Says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 12:36 pm

    Thanks for emailing Hayden. I had meant too, but got busy. I’m sure they are looking into providing more info (somehow).

  4. Hayden Says:
    August 19th, 2006 at 10:18 am

    It seems the PSP community has been down this road before with the failed Logic 3 keyboard. I think Sony will decide whether there is to be a keyboard for PSP, not 3rd parties.

    http://gear.ign.com/articles/691/691760p1.html

    The FITC web site does not mention the manufacturer of the keyboard.

  5. Scott Janousek Says:
    August 19th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    I had seen the cancellation as well, but I wasn’t sure if Sony had changed their mind and Logic 3 was actually producing it now, or whether they had their own version in the works.

  6. ~Kuneri Bloggy » TYPE THIS Contest Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 10:37 am

    [...] via Scott [...]

  7. Hayden Says:
    August 29th, 2006 at 12:32 pm

    Shawn Pucknell from FITC Design emailed that Flash does respond to key press events from the PSP keyboard.

  8. Flyer Says:
    December 25th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    thanks Scott Janousek for sharing thi great article. Very Interesting

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