December 18, 2008 at 9:07 am · Filed under Mobile, Web sites
Daily Candy appeared in my email today with a great tip for building your handset library. A new company, Purple Gossip, is offering used phones and accessories at bargain basement prices. Now adding something like a Nokia 5210 (£15 GBP / $23 USD) or a Sony-Ericsson K610i (£35 GBP / $54 USD) to your collection won’t take a bite out of your wallet. What’s more you’ll be helping the environment and saving a functional device from premature death. After all – one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!
December 17, 2008 at 5:50 am · Filed under AS3.0, Air, Design, Devices, User Experience Design
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! The new Adobe Air Flip Game may be hazardous to your free time this holiday season. Both a puzzle and a race against time, the object is to flip tiles (or CS4 mnemonics) so as to line up 3 or more of a kind.
I’m a sucker for puzzles but what really drew me in is the more you play, the better you get. I started building skill and even broke 100,000 points (ok, so it was only once – but I’m still chasing that high).
But here’s the real clincher – there’s an online score board for the top 100. Now I can’t stop playing until I break 200,000 – as I figure that will get me on the board. Trouble is, other players keep getting better too. Yesterday the highest score was above 300,000. Today someone pushed ahead, breaking 400,000 and verifying that there are others even more addicted than I.
If pure competition and the will to win are not enough for you, there’s an added incentive of winning CS4 bundles in one of the six name draws from the score board. This appears to be a random draw – so even if not the top scorer, I still have a chance to win a new copy of CS4. Now back to AIR FLIP – look out 200,000 club – here I come!
PS: Good job Adobe AIR Team! The game is fun, the UX/UI are GREAT. Love the sounds and animations and overall speed/performance of the game. It’s very well done. Only one question: what does “Stalemate” mean? I get that somewhat frequently.
December 3, 2008 at 7:59 am · Filed under Events, Mobile, Tools
Mark Doherty gave a nice presentation today at the MAX Conference in Milano. I am currently attending another good preso – so need to keep it short. If you’d like to learn more about mobile packaging and app distribution, please see http://tv.adobe.com and search on mobile. You should see a series of 5 short video tutorials. Start with the Overview and you’ll be up and running in 30 min or less!
