Good vibes with developers
Hello WidSets developers and all fans of great mobile widgets. Our second coding competition has recently closed and the time has come to announce the winners and to discuss about the next wave for WidSets developers.
So here are the best of the bests, the three winners. Games really rock this time, and generally speaking why not - fast and easy to grab just when in the mood, together with everyday use of mobile web. Fun and... damn, too addictive ;) All the winners are now owners of Nokia N810 internet tablet and they are contacted personally. On behalf of the WidSets team, warm thanks to all participants, and for the winners CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The first prize - BOOM! game What else could I say than Boom is the most impressive implementation seen so far. Will Bamford from MobileRadicals/UK did it again since he was the first awarded developer by us last year with the Bombus game being a great success. Boom! excellently continues demonstrating the capabilities and performance of the WidSets platform and Helium. Thanks Will! Btw, see also the demo clip http://youtube.com/watch?v=E5V3L_sVtF8
The second prize - WJewls game This game totally hooked me! I mean, aspects of the killer mobile game being very easy to start and learn but having complexity and challenge as you fight for the new records.. simply the most addictive thing right now and the implementation is excellent. Shared highscores add the icing on the cake. Thanks a lot from your great effort Ari and Rauli, as an additional recognition you will share an honour of being selected as the second Awarded Developer by WidSets, warm congratulations!
The third prize - Number game by the Russian student team from Saint-Petersburg state university of aerospace instrumentation (http://suai.ru/) positively surprised with the intellectual challenge it offers hence being perfectly suitable for mobile use. Again, very simple to learn but difficult to beat the records. Good work, we are happy to have you guys on board! Pick the winner widgets from the library and get hooked!
I am happy to announce we will have further competitions for developers during this spring already coming. Students and university teams, you should definitely take a look at amazing opportunities in the WidSets Challenge 2008 organized by Vodafone in their Betavine.com site. The competition is sponsored by Forum Nokia. Students, you really shouldn't miss this one, dive in at http://vodafonebetavine.net/web/guest/projects/students
In WidSets team we are really really happy and proud to see some great development as well as general Helium competence building happening already within WidSets developer community, as we are yet taking the first steps in that space. In WidSets we do believe both in openness and in the power of community having a concrete value proposition, namely revenue potential, in most of the cases. In this spirit, while WidSets is growing as a service and as a business, without any doubt we want to position developers as key players of the healthy ecosystem that is evolving and, having said that, I encourage developers and development companies stay tuned. We are working to come out with a proper developer's offering "WidSets for developers" essentially meaning not only mobile-optimized technology to develop great mobile web applications but in addition, unique channel to reach and manage the masses of mobile devices and customer base, as well as attractive means to monetize on top of that. As you may find the topic of WidSets for developers interesting, you should participate in the discussion and the renewal with us by sharing your thoughts here in blog or in the forums. Thanks!
Game developers, please also note our guys Marko and Dario will visit the GDC (www.gdconf.com) in San Francisco this month so you can catch them there to discuss WidSets development and the opportunities.
And now, let's continue developing the easier mobile web.
Tero-Markus
Very nice realization
Posted by:Jedy Ferh April 17, 2008 at 02:42 PM