All Work and No Play....

Posted By: Ed Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:45:51 AM

A recent study showed that 38.7% of handheld software sales are for games. Therefore, it seems only reasonable to highlight a few game releases.

GameLoft has released Rotomino's Box, a puzzle game featuring 63 levels of play. It supports color and B&W and being played from an SD card. It costs $15.

Kickoo has released Kickoo's Breakout, which is a hi-res version of Ababall. It runs only at 320 by 320 and 16-bit color. The company is offering it at a special introductory price of $6.25.

The Fade Team will soon release Acedior, a graphical adventure game. Set during the 14th century in an isolated monastery, the hero, a monk, has to solve an ancient mystery and find his way through over 60 locations, talking to various people and solving puzzles to find the truth. It will support 16-bit and 8-bit color screens, plus B&W. It is scheduled to be released in a month and a half, and will sell for around $18.

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Great, the more arcade games the better

I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 11:09:02 AM #
Anyone heard how the Financial Secretary in Hong Kong got his new fiancee? Palm games my friend!!!


RE: Great, the more arcade games the better
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 11:30:59 AM #
I dont know if that is something you want to be proud of. She's in love with his palm not him!!
RE: Great, the more arcade games the better
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 1:52:55 PM #
I imagine he's in love with his Palm too.
RE: Great, the more arcade games the better
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 2:00:02 PM #
It is a good story for Palm ads, I think.

Uh... Wow!

tipds @ 4/10/2002 11:35:21 AM #
I just went to the site for Acedior, and I don't know what to say, except "WOW!" These guys know what they are doing in the graphics department. (We'll see how the actual game turns out...) For each screen shot, they have the 16-bit color, 8-bit color and 16-shade gray for comparison. I can honestly say there is no real loss going from one to the other. Even the gray scale looks beautiful. Their website is also pretty cool. I give it 3 thumbs up. (I'm a mutant.)

Waiting anxiously,
Tip DS

RE: Uh... Wow!
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 3:03:30 PM #
OF course, those of us with IIIxe's and the like will only get 4 shades of gray. Wonder how it looks on those? (unfortunately, probably like crap. Sigh)
Good news
ktran @ 4/10/2002 3:25:15 PM #
The IIIx, IIIe, and IIIxe all use the Dragonball EZ processor and are capable of generating 16 level (4-bit) greyscale. However, it will depend on how the game invokes this colour support, in which case devices with less than OS 3.5 may or may not be out of luck.


rgds,

K. Tran

Acedior

I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 11:39:47 AM #
Great... Wouldn't it be more fun if you were a Wainwright making barrels all day.

You get to be a monk. Examine stables for horse droppings. Be a pedophile like Catholic Priests.

Great... I'm going to buy this game now.
NOT.


RE: Offensive Comment
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 11:49:46 AM #
Then don't post.

Kickoo's Breakout - needs button support

stephen007 @ 4/10/2002 11:48:53 AM #
I tried a demo of Kickoo's Breakout the other day on my T615 and it was *beautiful*.

BUT, they had no button support. You *had* to play using the stylus. That's just plain wrong. I need to play with buttons.

Stephen

RE: Kickoo's Breakout - needs button support
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 12:03:44 PM #
Have you played AbaBall? Playing with buttons is just not fast enough, you will never get through the higher levels with the buttons.
RE: Kickoo's Breakout - needs button support
big_raji @ 4/10/2002 12:13:59 PM #
Agreed. I have another Breakout game on my Clie, and found that if I don't play with the stylus, I can't play the harder levels.

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RE: Kickoo's Breakout - needs button support
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 3:01:25 PM #
They said Breakout is designed to be used with stylus, and they had a test on the button usages, too, but the results turn out to be... "hey, let's forget about buttons, it's just not fast enough to play."
RE: Kickoo's Breakout
sbabcock @ 4/10/2002 4:15:31 PM #

Uhm. Why isn't Iambic putting this out? Does it matter if I am registered for Ababall?

RE: Kickoo's Breakout - needs button support
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 4:48:02 PM #
I'm pretty sure it's the same guys that did Ababall. You can't upgrade from Ababall to Breakout, you have to buy Breakout, but it's only $7 I think.
RE: Kickoo's Breakout - needs button support
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 7:55:30 PM #
I guess it's not made by the same guy. The two guys, who developed Breakout and TakTik, opened there own store called Kickoo.

I guess it's somekind of partnership, though.

What recent study?

BThomas @ 4/10/2002 1:07:27 PM #
Just curious about that figure that 38.7% of software sales are for games...can anyone point me towards a source so I can follow up on it a bit? Thanks

RE: What recent study?
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 2:23:21 PM #
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020410/sfw039_1.html
RE: What recent study?
Ed @ 4/10/2002 2:52:05 PM #
I didn't say more about the study because Palm's release today was based on a study released last month:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3131

In case you missed it, it also showed that 97% of software sold in U.S. retail stores last year was for the Palm platform.

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RE: What recent study?
gonnabe @ 4/10/2002 10:18:06 PM #
Are you sure about that? I can't believe 97% of retail store software sales were Palm-based. I can't even find Palm software in a retail store if I don't hit Office Max, Staples, Best Buy or the like.

Is it possible that it was 97% of downloaded software? Now THAT might be a possible number.

Just my couple of pennies...

RE: What recent study?
gonnabe @ 4/10/2002 10:23:08 PM #
Okay---I should've checked the article and the original report first. It's referring to handheld software only as follows:

"NPDTechworld point-of-sale data also shows that the clear leader in operating systems for handhelds was the Palm OS, which accounted for almost all (97 percent) of 2001 portable software sales through retail."

Now I'm out four cents---but I'm happy.

RE: What recent study?
Ed @ 4/10/2002 10:24:28 PM #
Sorry, I left a very important word out of my sentance. It was supposed to say, "it also showed that 97% of handheld software sold in U.S. retail stores last year was for the Palm platform."

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RE: What recent study?
gonnabe @ 4/11/2002 11:12:47 PM #
No problem, and thanks for the info.

Another good game - Rainbow Slider

nXt @ 4/10/2002 3:44:10 PM #
New game.. Rainbow Slider, it's Bejeweled to the next level, you match 3 tiles... but level gets harder and you have to match a certain number of color of tiles.. and has 3 game level settings easy/med/hard...

Search for Rainbow Slider on palmgear.com

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RE: Another good game - Rainbow Slider
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 4:54:35 PM #
I personally didn't care for Rainbox Slider's cheapy graphics. Bejewled is just downright beautiful to look at as well as play, even though it's still low-res. And I guess I'd rather play the original than a rip-off.
RE: Another good game - Rainbow Slider
nXt @ 4/10/2002 5:03:35 PM #
You should check out Astraware's new game that's in beta right now.. called BounceOut, it's sorta like bejeweled also, but you can move the pieces in 8 directions rather than 4. But the graphics are HORRIBLE heh.

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RE: Another good game - Rainbow Slider
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 8:10:58 PM #
Where can I find the beta of BounceOut?
RE: Another good game - Rainbow Slider
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/10/2002 10:03:11 PM #
Xwap destroys bejeweled... same game-type, by the way :)

ciaran

RE: Another good game - Rainbow Slider
I.M. Anonymous @ 4/11/2002 3:21:43 PM #
To become a beta tester of Astraware games, you must click on Community on the left (that's their forums) make an account and sign up for the Beta forums. then you can download all their beta software...
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