Aug 16
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Games on Symbian - Scope and dimensions

I have been doing a random literature survey on the games played on Symbian, their background and other sutleties invloved. We, as users of the Nokia handsets have played several games like Snake or cricket or bounce or FIFA from EA Sports. We know that these have been tremendously successful and have reached millions of [...]

Author: Manikantan
Aug 16
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Sweet Memories v1.00 (touch game)

Sweet Memories is a memory card game for touch screen devices: find all pairs of same pictures. Works on touch screen devices with fingers (5800) and non-touch devices with keypad (N82).
http://jouni.miettunen.googlepages.com/sweetmemories

Requires PyS60 1.9.7
Support 3rd party picture files
Built-in: Sweet Mix (17 pictures), Flowers from Rovaniemi (20), Finnish traffic signs (41) and EU Flags (1 + 27)

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Author: Jouni Miettunen
Jul 01
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Programming Games with AI

So far, I have talked about flash games based on logic, their design, code modeling and given tips in Flash Lite. As some might know, I have been reading Python and J2ME for quite some time now. And in this post, I shall discuss how to program a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game in Python. I shall [...]

Author: Manikantan
Jun 29
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GamesPlaza now features Verbose!

Verbose now features in BoosterMedia’s mobile site gamesplaza.mobi. It can be found under the puzzles section. One can lookup here and download it directly on your mobile devices.

You can play the game and vote for it based on your experience. For those who have not played Verbose yet, its a game based on anagrams. The [...]

Author: Manikantan
Jun 04
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PyJumble v1.0.0

I have been poking my nose into PyS60 since few months now and finally today I am releasing my first game - PyJumble.
PyJumble is a simple word game. It is based on the popular game Jumble - which is a word puzzle in which a player is given a set of letters which, when arranged [...]

Author: Pavan Pareta
May 18
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Creating Simple Car games

As a sequel to my previous post on Gaming Tutorial, I now show how to create a Simple car game whose working model/ code logic is same as the previous HELI game tutorial. The photo images will give you an idea or a reminiscence of what the old car, brick- based game looked like.

However, in [...]

Author: Manikantan
May 11
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Creating a simple game in FlashLite 2.0

In the following article, I describe how to create a simple Flash Lite 2.0 game called – Heli. Heli is one of the classic video games played with lot of craze by young and old alike. In this article, you will see how to write the code logic for such games.

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Author: Manikantan
Apr 05
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Pygame ported to PyS60 1.9.x

GameDude has now ported Pygame to the latest Python releases - 1.9.x releases. So it should now work well with the recently released PyS60 1.9.3 as well.
Here is what the ported version has new,
* The new gfxdraw module is included and seems to work… bezier curves!
* The launcher application can now be scrolled with a [...]

Author: Pankaj Nathani
Mar 25
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Game Physics!

I have always liked to link more mathematics in games.  Always wanted to learn the coding of Game Engines, Physics engines.
Flash has developed into an extraordinary platform for Graphics design and game development. Flash has evolved greatly in the last decade and there are a lot of open source Game engines available for free online. [...]

Author: Manikantan
Mar 18
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Verbose

I only recently came to know how to upload my content on this blog. So, as a sample of my work I am presenting to you, my game which boasts of more than 3000 downloads at MOSH. Its a word game that can keep people engaged for long times. Words don’t repeat as they are [...]

Author: Manikantan