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Archive for April, 2008
Coming soon: N-Gage Reviews
Apr 20th
I’ve been enjoying the mobile gaming that my N82 has been offering and I’ll be reviewing the following N-Gage titles very soon: EA Sports FIFA 08, Brain Challenge, Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep and Space Impact Kappa Base.
Although these games have been reviewed elsewhere in the blogosphere, my perspective will be different in 2 aspects:
1. My reviews will analyze the game’s based on the Design, Play, Experience framework (that I have encountered in my studies in Serious Game Design)
2. My reviews will be based on actually playing the games on a Nokia N82.
I got FIFA 08 for the N-Gage for free !
Apr 20th
I am a big football fan. I watch it more than I play it but I think I play the video games more than I watch it. I stumbled across an article on the Symbian Weblog said Nokia was giving away 15,000 free licenses for FIFA 08 on N-Gage.
I was overjoyed until I realized that the offer did not extend to America and was limited to Europe. Nokia, in future, do recognize that your product base is growing on this side of the world (not everyone is in bed with Apple and rocking and iPhone) and you need to show us some love too !
Initially disappointed that I could not secure a license for FIFA 08, I selected the United Kingdom as my region and got my activation code sent to my sister’s phone in London ! After scribbling down the 3-line URL and checking it twice, it failed when I used my N82’s browser but I was successful in downloading the license onto my pc. Go Firefox !
So regardless of what happens on this week during Manu’s match against Barcelona, I can relive Manu’s glory on my cellphone, anywhere, anytime !
Mobile Codes
Apr 14th
Ever since I got my Nokia N82, I’ve always wondered about the utility of the Barcode application. I’ve seen a lot of bloggers generating Mobile Codes for their websites but other than that, I haven’t seen much utility from it.
The Barcode application utilizes your Nokia’s camera to "scan" the barcode and extract data that is embedded into the barcode image.
If you have the Barcode application on your phone, you can scan this barcode to link to jadedmoonstudios.com
You can also check out Nokia’s mobile code site here.
Please Take This Survey
Apr 9th
Hey all,
I’m currently undertaking a design course and my group and I have generated a survey that we hope you would take some time out of your busy day to fill-out. The general idea of the survey is to view a video-game trailer (that we will provide) for an up-coming game and fill out our survey after. You do not need to know anything about the game before hand, we just want you to react on what you see and answer the questions that follow.
This survey will only take you 5 – 10 minutes. If possible, we would appreciate if you can help us out and fill in our survey by Sunday April 13th, 2008 by 11:00pm.
Let’s Begin !!!
Please watch this video:
And now for the fun part, please proceed to our survey.
Thank you all for your help ! It will be most appreciated !
***Update***
Some of the survey takers commented that the acronyms used were not expanded and non-gamers did not know what they meant. Here they are for your info:
R.T.S. : Real Time Strategy (e.g. Warcraft, Starcraft)
F.P.S. : First Person Shooter (e.g. Halo, Quake, Doom)
New N-Gage client is out for Nokia Handsets
Apr 3rd
Nokia has released a new version of the N-Gage client for N-Series phones. N81/N81 8GB, N82, N95/N95 8GB are all getting the N-Gage treatment this time around.
After installing, I ran into a "system error" when trying to run the app. A few posts on the N-Gage forum later, I found out that the error was caused by having access point names with apostrophes in them. After deleting those, the client ran perfectly.
Now the question is, do I want to pay $13.49 for my first N-Gage game?
Check me out on N-Gage.
N-Gage Gamertag: JadedMoon
April Fool’s Day Pranks
Apr 1st
So I checking out all the April Fool’s Day pranks that tech bloggers keep recycling and I have to say, the funniest one I’ve seen all day is Super Pi Pi Brothers for the Wii.
Seeing is believing. Courtesy of ThinkGeek.
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