Everyone who's enthusiastic about N-Gage as a consumer or a developer might be inerested to know there's a seminar held by someone from Forum Nokia concerning N-Gage and presumably games development for it.
This one-hour seminar will occur tomorrow (8.8.) at 15.00 CET (16.00 local time in Finland):
Assembly '03 event schedule: http://asm03.assembly.org/Seminars/Program/Schedule/en
Assembly '03 webcast: http://www.assemblytv.net/ (look for "AssemblyTV Seminar Stream" links)
Tero
edit: topic updated
Well, there wasn't anything very new revealed, although they showed some gameplay videos that I hadn't seen before and made a few interesting points concerning N-Gage.
One very interesting point was mentioned: the next version of N-Gage series devices is already being designed. This Forum Nokia guy (whose name I didn't catch) mentioned that the follower of the first N-Gage is more than on a drawing board - actually he said there's already a prototype of it. He also emphasized that Nokia intends to keep that device compatible with the current platform so that games would not become obsolete too soon.
An uncertain issue seemed to be that will GPRS data connections offer good enough quality of service for mobile online gaming - latency is a difficult issue. He also wished that mobile operators would offer gamers flatrate pricing so that GPRS pricing wouldn't prevent online multi-player gaming.
Tero
P.S. The seminar video will probably be available on the Assembly '03 FTP site after the event - check for ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2003/assembly03/ on Sunday.
Edit: a few typos, sorry.
More Assembly news:
According to the current schedule, Nokia will start its N-Gage tour tomorrow (Sat 09) 09.00 CET in front of the fair center area.
I'm sure Assembly TV ( http://www.assemblytv.net/ ) will broadcast some kind of a feature about this.
As I recall, this tour will end in Paris in October when N-Gage is hitting stores.
Tero
and that was ebo rporting live from the seminar
groovy dude
[quote="Ismail"]and that was ebo rporting live from the seminar[/quote]
I have to admit I haven't been there all the time, instead I'm watching this via local cable TV network which is broadcasting the whole event live. So I sit in my living-room drinking beer and writing with my laptop PC in my home WLAN. 😉
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Back to my Assembly report:
The Mobile Demo compo just ended. There were many nice works of art running on several platforms: GBA, Series 60, UIQ (P800) and TI-83/86 calculators.
Especially the UIQ works were quite convincing in terms of graphics and sound quality. Series 60 works were somewhat disappointing, maybe they couldn't get everything out of their 3650. A demo called "Zion" had taken influence from Matrix and I think they had got quite a lot out of P800 - you can already download its UIQ and S60 versions from www.gurgleblaster.net .
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There also was a mobile games development competition arranged by HP and Nokia - you can download those games from ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2003/assembly03/mobile_game/
Tero
speaking of N-Gage tour....there lots of game movies and pics at tour home page.
http://www.n-gage.com/tour/index.html
Click on event info and then games. Gameloft's games look MUCH improved from their "regular" S60 versions. I guess the extra space on MMC helps to create a lot more art and animations.
[quote="PMidway"]speaking of N-Gage tour....there lots of game movies and pics at tour home page.
http://www.n-gage.com/tour/index.html
Click on event info and then games. Gameloft's games look MUCH improved from their "regular" S60 versions. I guess the extra space on MMC helps to create a lot more art and animations.[/quote]
YES! I live in Stockholm and i was there ... OMG, N-gage is sooo cool!!!! I must buy it! I played tomb raider, Pandenomium, Tony Hawk and sonic.
SOOOO COOOOL!!!