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Archive for January, 2007

Zodal creates PSP Flash game for MTV

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Zodal cooked up a PSP game for MTV entitled: In the Crib with Rob and Big (yet another Reality show), which is very cool.
Chris Blair (Zodal) was commenting on the team’s approach using Flash Lite mentality to make the game … which is a wise approach, since you’ll more than likely to feel like you [...]

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Check your “Damage Dots”

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

What’s a “Damage Dot”, you ask? It’s (usually) a pencil eraser sized dot placed inside your mobile device (typically a cellphone) to detect water damage. Sometimes there’s two. One near the battery compartment and one inside the actual device. Go ahead, check your mobile. If it’s new enough, and you are in the US [...]

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Mariam Dholkawala has started a Flash Mobile blog

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Mariam Dholkawala of India Games has started a blog.

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Hagakure - Book of the Samurai #1

Friday, January 26th, 2007

“No matter what it is, there is nothing that cannot be undone. If one manifests the determination, he can move heaven and earth as he pleases. But because man is pluckless, he cannot set his mind to it. Moving heaven and earth without putting forth effort is simply a matter of concentration.” - Hagakure (Book [...]

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viliv p2 PMP launched in Korea (Flash Lite 2 onboard)

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I noticed the viliv p2 PMP (Korean, English) has been launched in Korea.
This device features a Flash Lite 2.0 User Interface. No word on whether you can load custom Flash Lite content on the device.
There may be some preinstalled Flash Lite games, as the previous viliv p1 was Flash Lite 1.1 enabled, had [...]

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I am now an Authenticated Qualcomm BREW Developer

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Just an FYI … but, I am now an Authenticated Qualcomm BREW® Developer.
To those outside of the Flash Lite community, this may not mean so much … however for those Flash Lite content publishers out there, this means you have an additional resource to “tap”.

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The CMX Mobile Device Reference Resource

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

There’s a new initiative over at CMX called The CMX Mobile Device Reference Resource. It’s an attempt to collect capabilities for mobile browsers (CSS support for one). This is very reminiscent of the Flash Lite capabilities matrix that exists.
To contribute, use your mobile device browser to submit to the collection efforts by accessing the URL. [...]

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CMX article: “The Mobile Internet”

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

There’s a free intro article entitled “The Mobile Internet” over at Community MX. The author, Adrian Senior, is covering some of the intricacies in browser based content creation using HTML and CSS (stylesheets & media types, browser inconsistencies, etc) for handheld devices. This is one of several articles.

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iPhone is ho-hum news in Asia

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

No surprise here. The iPhone announcement is ho-hum news in Asia, where keitai reigns supreme. CNN reports on the response to the iPhone announcement in Asia.

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Overcoming the Small Screen Challenge in Mobile Games

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

The crew over at kuneri spotted a whitepaper just pushed from Nokia on “Overcoming the Small Screen Challenge in Mobile Games”.
It’s only a 5 pager, but it’s worth the read, here’s the abstract:
This article presents some best practices and visual examples of graphic design for mobile games. It also focuses on overcoming some of the [...]

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