A number of interesting games have it the mobile shelf this week…
Picturephoning has blogged the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland development of a wireless table tennis game called “SymBall” for cameraphones. “The phone’s display shows the virtual table, net, ball and the rackets. Moving or tilting the phone moves the player’s virtual racket in the phone’s display. The phone’s movement is determined by following the location of a colored pattern in the camera image.” It doesn’t sound like you’ll be able to move as much as you would in table tennis…The phones communicate via bluetooth but there’s nothing stopping them using other wireless technologies.
GridRunner++ has been ported to the mobile phone. It was written by Cheeky (who used to be in the game development business but decided to sell-up and move to a nicer location — I can relate) and is a psychadelic space shoot-em-up…I had trouble distinguishing the background from the enemy, but I often find that difficult. Except for the sheep — that was fairly obvious as an evil entity. There’s a demo on the web site if you want to test it out to see if it’s for you. The price varies depending on the method of payment, but for some reason PayPal is the most expensive (6 euros). I would have thought it would be the cheapest because the payment supervisor doesn’t take as big a cut as premium SMS or phone calls.
Inpoc, the biggest Scandinavian mobile entertainment portal, has announced the release of Poc Boy Racing. The application has been developed by Touchlink Mobile exclusively for Inpoc and will be available in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. “Poc Boy Racing is a top-view car racing game, where users have to finish first on different tracks (desert, jungle and city) in single and championship modes”. Poc Boy appears to be a character from another game on the Inpoc portal, and the companies see this release as “a big marketing step”.
Vodafone Live will launch the Freddie Flintoff Blast ‘Em Cricket mobile game this summer, which is fully endorsed by England’s top all rounder and cricketing hero, Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff. “Launched during this summer’s first Ashes Test Match at Lord’s on the 21st July, the game will be compatible with most Java-enabled handsets…Working to a timer, players must use skill and accuracy to hit the correct key combinations and blast the ball for six in true Freddie style! Players can choose from two game types: the fast-paced knockout Blast ‘Em game or the more technical Hit For Six where players face 20 deliveries and attempt to hit as many sixes as possible. A series of key presses are required in succession to hit the ball for six and if at any time the sequence is broken, the player will fail.” I don’t find cricket that exciting, but it’s immensely popular in England and Australia and a few other countries. BTW, Australia will win the Ashes…
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