Unfortunatly, I was not at the GDC this year. However, Nokia put online some of the GDC talk on their developer site. Check this presentation about the future of the NGage, especially in the community area…
Check the video on Nokia site. There is a demo of the upcoming N-Gage deck:
One interesting indea, is the “NGP”, no too far from a loyalty point approach. In the demo, the first time the player plays snake, he is asked to put his nickname If he does this, he is award 20 points of NGP….
What is clearely great is the deep link between the game and the platform, the NGP points are awarded and displayed DURING the game, and not outside the game….
The profile of course can be customized. In the demo, the guy is taking a picture of himself to modify his gamer profile….
And of course, the UI is very smooth and clean, with nice transition, etc……
Technorati Tags: ngage, wireless, games, wirelessgames, symbian
April 10th, 2006
I am using
XML since several years, and I’ve wondered several time why this is a so
complex description language. For me, the biggest issue with XML is that it
fails in an area where it should be perfect: being human readable. Reading a
complex XML document is a nightmare, writing/modifying XML based configurations
files also, and even with some tools, its seems just a complex way to do simple
things.
I was thinking that I may have some “personals” issues, with XML, but
it seems that I am not alone, and this site proofs this: http://xmlsucks.org/
(but you have to use it anyway), contains what I think is a very good
presentation of PRO and CON of XML. It’s a 2002 document, but still valid in
think, especially with the conclusion:
- XML does suck technologically, but:
- the technological problems can be managed
- the political and commercial advantages of working with the same open
standard as everyone are enormous
And there is no dubt that due to the interoperability, there are a lot of advantages of using XML, it’s just that it could have been done even better….
Technorati Tags: xml
April 10th, 2006
