http://mobilegd.com The voice of the Developers Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:03:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many iPhone developers are trying their best to estimate of how the rank in the App Store translates in sales. Apparently, a few developers already released some of their data, which is interesting to read. This article will detail two apps - iFart and Oz Weather - which published real data, ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/25/a-peek-into-rank-to-sales-ratio-on-the-iphone-appstore?nucrss=1 Vallywag reports Google shipped specially branded G1s to their employees as an holiday gift - and instead of the traditional cash bonus. Some employees were disappointed as Google's bonuses sometimes reach as high as $20K, and some of the workers were actually counting on it. In a letter sent to all ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/25/google-employees-to-get-g1s-as-the-holiday-bonus?nucrss=1 Every week we have more people requesting to join our Linked-In group. Today we have reached 333 members, which must be some kind of a milestone. So hello to all the new members! Remember, if you haven't joined yet - it's just a click away... Happy XMas / Noel / Hanuka everybody! http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/25/mobilegd-linked-in-group-hit-333-members?nucrss=1 Jason Rohrer's excellent game Passage is now also available on the iPhone for the price of 99 cents. The iPhone version added yesterday is th mobile version of the game that was released last year and generated much attention with game designers. The PC version and source code of the game ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/25/passage-is-now-available-on-the-iphone?nucrss=1 Another doze of charts for you guys. As usual, brands rule the charts and no new players makes it to the top - even the games are ones we have seen before. Glu is hardly present, as well as I-Play. We hope to soon publish new iPhone charts which will ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/21/top-10-game-downloads-october-november-2008?nucrss=1 Symbian published a 4rd installment of it's Multi-Language Programming series. Notice Part 3 was written by no other than Filipe Andrade. (: Multi-Language Programming - Part 4 This is the fourth and final paper in a series examining the possibilities of building Symbian OS applications by mixing multiple languages and runtime environments. ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/21/symbian-multi-language-programming-papers?nucrss=1 mGBL (mobile Game-Based Learning) is an academic open source project that offer a system for quickly building decision-based games in j2me. The project site is full with academic information and it's clear the researchers are taking this project very seriously. The project homepage describe it in these words: Within the mobile Game-Based ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/21/project-mgbl-goes-open-source-%e2%80%93-mobile-game-based-learning?nucrss=1 LG released a new document on it's developers site entitled "Flash Lite Developer Guides for LG Phones": This Guide is intended to make it easier for developers to create Adobe® Flash® Lite™ applications for LG mobile phones equipped with Flash Lite. The Guide provides Flash Lite 2.0 and 3.0 supported ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/21/flash-lite-developer-guides-for-lg-phones-released?nucrss=1 (Press Release) Smartphone users now have access to more popular games than ever as Handango Inc. (Handango), the leading retailer of smartphone apps globally, announced partnerships with top mobile game publishers Digital Chocolate and I-play. Through these deals, Handango added a vast array of top entertainment content for Blackberry and ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/19/handango-to-add-i-play-and-dchoc-games-to-their-catalog-pr?nucrss=1 Hands-On Mobile laid off an undisclosed number of employees. The company claims it has nothing to do with the financial situation but from internal restructuring. CEO David White said the economy has not affected Hands-On directly yet, and they are seeing strong revenues from smartphones, like the iPhone, he’s cautious given ... http://mobilegd.com/2008/12/16/hands-on-lays-off-a-number-of-employees?nucrss=1