Sliding8 is my first commercial game
Posted 27 Sep 2009 by Akinwale Ariwodola
I used to play with the sliding puzzle game when I was young lad. I didn't even know what it was called back then. The numbers were detachable from the puzzle board and my quickest way to solve the puzzle was to remove all the numbers and arrange them in order. It was genius.Sliding8 is a sliding numbers puzzle game I developed for Nokia S60 touch devices which features the 8- and 15-puzzle. It's the first complete game I've done in years. Although it's not much considering I've been looking to get back into game development for a long time now, I feel it's a step in the right direction. It's also my first commercial game which is an added bonus. Obligatory screenshots follow:
I submitted it to Ovi about a couple of weeks ago and it's already passed QA (this took only 5 days, surprisingly, but there's still room for improvement). Still waiting for it to get published to the store.
Meanwhile, I was able to update SimpleIRC with a few improvements which include timestamps (should've been there from the start), adjustable font sizes for the tab bar and text area (which limits support to only Nokia S60 touch devices - Nokia UI API 1.2+) and the names in the nickname list are now arranged in alphabetical order. I'll be providing the version with fixed font sizes for sale through rigfoundry.com, eventually.
There were a couple of comments by readers on my previous post asking about Ovi Store sales. I gave a short response, but I intend to write an extensive post on the subject sometime in the future. Stay tuned.
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