tisdag 21 december 2010

What's up in the project?

Some say there are some big holiday coming up soon, and I guess that could be a reason for not having enough time right now to focus on the project. But from sonn we can get up to speed again. The scetches of the different screens and links between them are soon getting into place. That means that it will not be long until we can show you some pictures of the application. The webserver are now up and running, and some basic functionality are set up.
This will be great!

söndag 12 december 2010

Time for docs...

Now the time has definitly came to start documenting all we do to make sure we get this right.

That will also mean that you who follows this blog will get better and more detailed information soon.

Keep coming back and keep an eye on us!

tisdag 7 december 2010

Some progress on the mobile application side

Today we have gone a bit further and now has the functionality up to view location on map, view activity-list and also friends-list. Will right now not tell so much more than this in this early phase, but keep following us to get more information later on.
Picture functionality is also soon getting into place.

But it would not be a very hard guess to say that this game will have some social media functionality as well...

måndag 6 december 2010

Background

What you can expect from the future coming application is an mobile version of a already wellknown (yea) game that are very popular (in the beginning at least) in families and from around 4-5 years old kids and up with no agelimit. The rules are very simple, but we will come to that later on.

The background and reason for us to starting this work up, is what we will tell you about now. We are two guys in the 35-40 year agespan working in the IT/Telecom-sector for many years. One of us are a programmer and the other is more into sales & marketing. We live in the same small town and has always been. We have some mutual friends, but have never met before. We has been working in the same industry, and also in the same company, but not at the same time. But as said never met before. We have kids in the same daycare-center and the two 5-year old girls are the very best friends. And from that the parents has also started to socialize since about a year ago.

At a dinner in summer 2010 we talked about Iphone and the industry booming about “apps” for mobile phones. We both find this quite interesting. The programmer guy say that he has been looking into the programmer tools for IOS but that its difficult to learn when not having a clear goal on what to create. Having a goal to achieve is crucial and also a driver for the progress. We end that dinner saying that if we come up with some kind of idea, we should maybe start it up together and try to do something about it. That would be fun.

A couple of weeks later, sitting in a car from a customer meeting this idea suddenly came up, when thinking about the familygame but with a mobile app twist when using another famous and wellknown Iphone-app. We talked about it a couple of days later and decided to get going. Just to make it easier for you to follow us - our names are Mikael & Magnus.

We started to create some simple scetches and found out at once that this will be more difficult than we first thougth. But also that this will be very fun.

Magnus, who is the programmer in our small 2-person team, has started to get things together and Mikael are looking into setting up Facebook page, this Blog and relations to other sites such as Pusha, Mashable, Digg etc. But also looking into layout and design of the application. That would probably change a lot over time until we feel ready for takeoff.

Why does this blog exist?

This blog is created to make it possible for all of you out there to follow our work to create an creative and advanced gaming application for mobile devices. This might sound a bit highflying, but we will try to explain along the way where our thoughts all begun, and the road until launch. Ofcourse if you are interested to help us, feel free to contact us, and post ideas on how you feel that we should change or add functionality in the gaming application.

We hope that this vague text make you interested enough to start following what we are up to. Keep coming back – we will be posting soon again.