Rachel pointed me at Flight Control for the iPhone. It’s a fun, relatively simple game where you need to direct planes to runways by controlling their flightpath, which is done by dragging your finger on the screen.
At £0.60, you can’t go wrong..
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Once again, my dead body surfaces on another site, this time on the Wired blog. It always amuses me when I see it on a site I regularly read.
It also makes me think I could do with visiting the gym a little more frequently, but that’s another story 
Previously I found myself on BoingBoing and Kotaku 
With all the excitement of winning a BAFTA, (which i’m still deliriously happy about) I almost forgot to post about our recent success at the BIMA awards!
Bow Street Runner won the rather strangely titled “Awesome Little Bit of Wickedness Award” in the Games category. Hurrah!
This project has now won a Flashforward award, a BIMA, and a BAFTA. Incredible! All the hard work really did pay off. I can’t wait to make something like this again, it’ll be 10 times better
A quick update to say that we’re up for some more awards!
First of all, Bow Street Runner is up for a BIMA award on the 27th Novemeber.
Secondly, Bow Street Runner is up for a DIMA award on the 27th November, along with the excellent Transformers auditions we made for Paramount.
It’s absolutely fantastic to see BSR up for more awards. It was a lot of hard work, and I’d like to think that it really has paid off.
If you’ve not played BSR, it’s a free online game for Channel 4 that was launched earlier this year. It could easily take over an hour or more to complete all 5 episodes, so if you fancy a little taster video to see what it’s all about, take a look at the video here.
I’ve blogged about Bow Street Runner a few times.
HOORAY!
I’m very happy to say that the epic Bow Street Runner game we made for Channel 4 has just won a Flashforward award at Flashforward San Francisco 2008
Thanks to everyone involved!
Edit: This is our second Flashforward award
I managed to resist the last iPhone, but this time i’m not too sure i’ll be able. What’s different this time? The combination of 3G, GPS, and an accelerometer. This could seriously be the start of a new – maybe even revolutionary – gaming platform.
Location-aware gaming might take off now. I’m thinking that companies that are already doing similar things (like Locomatrix) might see a lot more interest in the coming months. Perhaps a mix between GPS gaming and PMOG (Passively Multiplayer Online Game) could be interesting? I’ve got to get one of these and start experimenting..
Of course, the combination of 3G, GPS, and accelerometer has been done before in a few phones, including the excellent N95, but -assuming the GPS works on the iPhone 2.0 – there’s one huge difference here: The ludicrous fanboy factor. Any interesting apps and games for the iPhone are going to be lapped up by a very vocal, very active, very influential fanbase.
Will we see Flash on this? With Adobe’s Open Screen Project, I can only hope Talking of wishful thinking, perhaps Apple will drop the walled garden approach. I seriously doubt it though..
[Update] I see Mashable gets what i’m talking about.
Well, I had nothing much better to do today, so after sorting out my previous problems with Arduino and Flash, I thought i’d connect 2 potentiometers to the Arduino board, and make….. Yezzer-sketch!
Here’s the on-screen result:
The very simple circuit:
Video:
I need to get some better potentiometers, these are pretty rubbish.
Yey for making … stuff! 
I’ve been insanely busy at work recently, working on a huge Flash game for Channel 4. I’ve kept schtum about it all, with only a few hints to what’s been going on to the outside world.
On the 11th Feb, Channel 4 released a preview of Episode 1 to the world, and it’s been picked up by the blogosphere. My favourite moments so far have been seeing my dead body on the front page of Kotaku, and seeing my fat arse on the front page of my favourite site BoingBoing.
To my fellow programming friends, it’s all ActionScript 3, and no, I didn’t do the entire thing by myself
Be warned, there’s a few bugs in this *preview* release. Oh, and there’s 4 more episodes to come in the very near future.
To show the grandkids, when i’m grey and old:
Team Littleloud rocks!
[update]: We won a BAFTA for this game!
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