by Ardrich
January 19, 2011 in News Roundup
The hottest new game mobile game ‘Bubble Ball’ has been developed by a 14-year old boy.
Robert Nay, an 8th grade pupil from Utah, has astonished the programming world by creating a free physics puzzle for the iPhone.
In Bubble Ball, players try to get a ball to the goal by using different objects and the laws of physics to manoeuvre it. The addictive game has already more than 2m downloads in iTunes store.
by Ardrich
January 13, 2011 in News Roundup
South Korean film-maker Park Chan-wook used Apple’s iPhone to shoot the entirety of his new fantasy-horror film Paranmanjang.
Best known for his blood-soaked thriller Oldboy, Park said the smartphone created “strange” effects and was especially interesting as it’s a medium the audience is used to.
by Ardrich
January 13, 2011 in Jobs
Location: Sunderland
Salary: £25k – £35k negotiable depending on experience
We are looking for experienced game developers who have been specialising in mobile gaming and application development for the iPhone/iPad and/or Android platforms in recent years.
We are interested in hearing from developers who want to progress their career within this specialist field with a well established, forward thinking company based in Sunderland who is looking to move it’s successful endeavours online into the mobile market.
by Ardrich
January 6, 2011 in News Roundup
Domino’s Pizza is making the most of social media and mobile buying as it records a double-digit rise in sales.
Since launching its iPhone app in September, Domino’s has received more than £1m worth of sales through it. All in all the sales grew 18% in the 13 weeks to the end of the year.
by Ardrich
December 23, 2010 in Jobs
Location:
Cramlington
Salary: £18k – £40k
Closing date: Apply ASAP, interviews in January 2011
We are proud to be working with a Client based in the North East who has developed an award-winning rich messaging network, which enables you to send text, voice or photo messages to your contacts for free no matter whether they use services like Facebook, Yahoo, MSN or through their own fully fledged Instant Messaging service.
by Ardrich
December 19, 2010 in News Roundup
A security researcher Dan Kaminsky has created an augmented reality app ‘DanKam’ in his spare time to compensate for colour-blindness.
Available for the iPhone and Android, DanKam uses several unique and configurable filters to images and video to enhance the difference between colours, making them visible to the colour-blind.
by Ardrich
December 19, 2010 in News Roundup
Word Lens, a new iPhone application uses augmented reality to translate text from Spanish to English and vice versa.
Through an iPhone camera, the app displays a translated version of the text being shot. The original text is replaced by translated words sized to match the space of the original.
by Ardrich
October 28, 2010 in News Roundup, Uncategorized
Game developer Rovio’s special Halloween ‘treat’ has gone down well among hard-core Angry Birds fans.
With a reported million downloads in just six days, Angry Birds Halloween features 45 new levels – three times more than a regular update.
by Ardrich
October 28, 2010 in Features
NMM had a chance to catch up with the developers of the most talked about mobile game at the moment. With millions of downloads around world, Angry Birds is the king of casual gaming. Niklas Hed, CTO of Rovio, told us about the early stages of the game and what it takes to create a global hit.
Everything started at a regular publishing board meeting where one of Rovio’s developers presented the team with one single image. Everyone loved it, and the Birds were given the green light.
The development of the game took around eight months as, initially, it was only one project among many for the company, Niklas told us. But as the project progressed, they started realising that there might be more to this game than was first thought.
by Ardrich
September 25, 2010 in News Roundup
As Google announce plans to enter the lucrative laptop market, Facebook continues to deny rumours they are to release their own mobile phone.
The search giant is planning to enter the laptop market with its range of Google-based “netbooks”.
Glen Murphy, the lead designer on Google’s Chrome operating system, said the first Chrome computers are due to go on sale later this year.
