I'm losing my favourite game

[venta]

I don't post about work here much. But just for once...

I work for a company that's been building a cross-mobile (and indeed cross-device, should you wish to play games on an internet-enabled telly or a high-powered toaster) platform for casual games. And our game store is now up and running:

www.antixgames.com

This is what our marketing department is calling a "soft launch", which appears to mean largely un-publicised. We support only a couple of phones[*] at the moment, and don't have a large range of games. But if you're willing to install a plug-in, you can pop along and try the games out in your (Windows) web browser.

Those of you who've heard me on the topic of work recently will instantly identify the actual bits I've actually been involved with :)

[*] Number of phones our software runs on: big. Number of phones our software runs on which have been properly tested and exhaustively verified and can be considered market quality: small.

Comments

[ebee.livejournal.com]

There are 6 types of Chess! eeeeeeeek!
I've pinged the link to brownbrother21

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! I had an out of my the box experience!

Round of applause to the team!

Is there a developer info page anywhere? What languages are available if I want to port to (or develop for) Antix?

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

I haz the Desire. I am supported.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Cardigans, My favourite game, but I can't have a kudo because I had to look up the artist. Which at least means I now know who sings it.

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Glad to see cross-platform, especially for mobiles (as opposed to the usual "Let's support IPhone ... and maybe this new Android thing, that's everyone right?")

I've already seen (though not played) Toonwarz for Symbian phones, I don't know if that means they're shipping on the untested platforms already, or it's been ported to your game engine.

I tried out the browser plug in and it works fine in Opera. I was curious to see if "Four In a Line" really was just four in a line. Honestly, if there's money to be made writing stuff like that, I'm in the wrong industry. I even see they have a Windows PC version for £11.75 (surely on the desktop, there's even more competition from loads of free versions). I do love the long-winded description they give - I never knew the history of "four in a line" was so rich! Not to mention their extensive feature list that lists things like "help file" :)

(No reflection on your company or game engine - I realise this is a separate developer.)

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Don't run Windows, don't have an HTC Desire or a Commtiva N700.

Still, some of the game icons look quite pretty!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Not going to try anything atm as it looks like will be highly distracting and I'm supposed to be working on a tight deadline. But good luck!

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I mis-read the URL as anti xgames.
I liked the idea that they were particularly un-extreme games.

:)

[pm215]

Fact: I was at the Meego conference this week, and one of the booths there had some sort of set top box with a menu including a couple of games with the Antix logo on :-)