Mobile games development

Since iPhone’s arrive in Italy seems to be near, here’s a first port of AnimaLogic, one of the first web runtime games!

You can try a first (very beta, as always :)) version here.

Darts is an ideal game for mobile users, since it does only require few seconds for a match, and could be really helpful while waiting for a bus.. (If you must wait a bus in Rome, it’s easy you’ll become a Darts champion within a day :))

This simple game was originally included, as easter egg, in the midlet built for 2007 Edition of Rome JavaDay, to help folks being awake during long talks For a live test you can go directly to the emulator page.

Now, It’s source code is fully available to everyone to (ab)use, and please be kind with me for the total lack of comments…

Here is the source code, and the full sample midlet if you want to try it out on your phone.

I’ve got some fun with my friend Fabio in creating a first game for Nokia Web Runtime.

Since Web Runtime allows building mobile applications with classic web technologies, we’ve used nothing more that html, css and plain-old-good javascript… isn’t it great?

It’s a very first alpha release with not too much functionalities (local hi-scores and a single game mode), but feel free to take a try

The main interface was done using classical <a> elements to represent the menu options, but this has 2 important drawbacks, as you can see:

• links (like also input fields and other focusable elements) when focused are surrounded by a thick border: not really beautiful..
• managing of focus itself, between different screens, is not easy, so it happens that focus sometimes disappears, or starts from the last menu options, or other odd things.

Next release will try to solve those and other issues… meanwhile, we’ll be happy of any kind of feedback about it

Download Web Runtime AnimaLogic