New in the Ovi Store, Microrace takes a traditional, top down view of the arcade karting genre - Ewan thinks that's just enough for a great game, but is Microrace a touch too small? Here's his review - can the game break free from being a 'proof of concept'?
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Dear Ewan,
Good review, I am thinking to buy an N79, I just wanted to ask you what do you think is the future for symbian S60 V3 games, because now I hardly see any .sisx games being written for S60 V3 !! and java games are slow and not as smooth. please guide me soon
Even I wanted to know about this, with Ngage dead
1. are we going to get new games for S60 V3?
2. Please tell us the future of s60 V3 in the gamming arena?
3. will games which are written for s60 V5 work with S60 V3?
4. what is this Open Source Thing and QT ?
5. what is Symbian^2, Symbian^3 and Symbian^4, and which category does the N79 and n86 fall?
6. Is N79 QT enabled can I expect new symbian games for N79 in 2010?
Sorry for so many questions but please please answer me !! It will help me in making some decisions !!
Dear Steve, Evan or Rafe any one one but some one please help me, I really need some help frm you
Even I wanted to know about this, with Ngage dead
1. are we going to get new games for S60 V3?
2. Please tell us the future of s60 V3 in the gamming arena?
3. will games which are written for s60 V5 work with S60 V3?
4. what is this Open Source Thing and QT ?
5. what is Symbian^2, Symbian^3 and Symbian^4, and which category does the N79 and n86 fall?
6. Is N79 QT enabled can I expect new symbian games for N79 in 2010?
Sorry for so many questions but please please answer me !! It will help me in making some decisions !!
I work for Symbian, so I think I can answer most of these.
1.) This depends on the developers, it's their choice if they want to address the S60 3rd edition market
2.) It should be fine as you'll see in a later point.
3.) Not if they use API's or features introduced for S60 5th edition. Ensuring that applications that are written for a newer platform work on an older one is a practically non-existent concept in the software world (would you expect games written for the PS3 to run on the PS2)?
4.) Open source describes the situation where the code for the software and the development of that software is public. If you go to http://developer.symbian.org you can see Symbian code (you'll need to register). Qt is an application development framework which makes developing on Symbian a lot easier.
5.) These are different releases of the Symbian platform. Symbian^2 is finished and some features are present in the N97/Mini & X6, ^3 is in progress and devices should be available the middle of this year, ^4 is not yet distributed outside Nokia and devices will appear at the end of this year, probably. Neither the N86 or N79 feature any of these releases - they use S60 3rd edition.
6.) No current Nokia phone has Qt 'enabled' (i.e. built in), but Qt is compatible all the way back to 3rd edition FP1 and Nokia are working on a scheme to allow apps to get it on installation when needed. This goes back to your second question. If a game is written in Qt and the 'smart installer' works then it should be compatible across all Symbian phones going back to FP1.
Thanks brendandonegan,
Thanks so much for your help. I got much more Idea about symbian and I am less confused now.
i like, well, would like the sound of this
this should be released for s60 v3... i would love a a game like this on my n86... however... the developer has chose not to, so is now missin out on my (and probably some other peoples) money... both his loss and mine...
oh well ill get over it :/
hopefully it might come to s60 v3
Having played and enjoyed an earlier version (Dreamway) on my SE P900 (P800?) I couldn't resist trying this on my Samsung i8910. Sadly using a finger to stear rather blocked the view :frown: and the stylus I use does not work when dragged on the Samsung's screen.
Having said that, the game seemed fun but apart from maybe a slightly different track layout was the same game I played all those years ago. Ah, progress.
Edit: I see Dreamway also ran on S60 3rd Edition so if it is still around you 3rd Edition users should be able to join in the fun.