We are proud to announce the launch of Adobe User Group Northern Finland: Augnofi!
We aim to create a warm, active and creative community on the top of the world, spreading our energy to the rest of the world. Global contests, live and online seminars, cool workshops and interviews with the experts from the heart of mobile technology are in our future program.
Spread the word; don’t forget to check it out and join! All welcome!
Adobe launches two new mobile developer centers; Flash development for Sony PSP and Flash Lite development for Sony Ericsson handsets.
We got our very first Sony Ericsson test device recently: W810i. Haven’t performed an extensive test yet, but as first impression; performance is poor and installed applications do not run in full screen at first time. I think the fact that Sony Ericsson doesn’t support standalone player has a dramatic effect on that. Will post more on that as we perform further testing.
Zodal released a new PSP Flash game: In the crib with Rob and Big, for MTV.
It has been developed entirely in Flash - using our experience of highly optimized Mobile Game programming - based on a combination of Flash Lite 1.1 and Flash Lite 2 techniques. The biggest hurdle in developing Flash content for the Sony PSP is that the Flash Player runs in the “Netfront” browser on the device - and unfortunately does not have full access to the CPU. However if you’re clever in your game design - and heavy on your graphic and programming optimizations - you CAN make a full platform style game in Flash - run beautifully on the PSP.
Game runs pretty well on device, considering how slow Flash player is on PSP. Zodal puts up a good performance, overcoming platform limitations with clever design and implementation. While pixel graphics look very cool, low FPS drops the game-play experience, which may be due to performance related concerns. Another issue is the lack of instructions on how to get the game running on device. There is no easy way to run standalone Flash content on PSP; only way is from browser. Without decent explanation, it’s quite hard for first timers to get the game up and running, which may cause them to give up quickly.
There are 3 different levels with a big boss at the end of each. I like the characters and big boss idea, they make the game definitely more fun. It’s not very easy to beat them up, so you have to be very quick with button combinations. Overall; nice graphics, good game-play and with little more attention in details, a good mobile Flash content penetration to the market.
As you may remember, couple of weeks ago, we posted a news about FITC TYPE THIS contest. We prepared a simple Flash game for PSP, however, due deadline was close and we did not see the game at the level we want, we did not submit.
I follow their page to check the results for some time. I am curious, trying to figure out current interest about Flash on PSP, and wondering what kind of games and good ideas had been submitted. It’s told that submissions would end at 21st September and winners to be announced on 30th of September 2006. Although it’s past 30th, there is still no update or announcement about the winners, at least on their web page. I personally sent an email asking about the results, however, no response since then.
So, what is the situation? Is there an announcement, but no web page update, or was the interest that low that there are nothing to announce? Anyone joined or heard anything about that?
