Our mobile apps have been critically reviewed and appreciated on the Nokia’s OVI Daily App blog. The blog, which reviews smart Nokia OVI apps, has featured ‘Express, the proximity communicator’, and the grand prize winning ‘Comics Creator’.
“With ‘Express’ on Your Nokia, You’ll Never Be at a Loss for Words”says Jason Black, the reviewer of Express, the proximity communicator.
We are delighted to announce that Nextwave Multimedia’s ‘Comics Creator’ has won the first prize in ‘Nokia’s 2010 Calling All Innovators’ contest in the Entertainment Category. The winners and runner-ups were declared on 15 September, 2010 at the ‘Nokia Developer Summit 2010′ held in London.
‘Nokia’s Calling All Innovators’ is a global app development contest presenting developers with the task of creating apps that make a difference in people’s everyday lives, and enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios.
For its third consecutive year, Nokia challenged developers worldwide to create mobile apps in any of four categories: Life Improvement, Eco/Being Green, Productivity and Entertainment.
More than 1,500 developers from all over the world responded to Nokia’s challenges. In all, Nokia received over 7,700 submissions.
The winners and finalists were adjudged based on the following criteria: Quality/Functionality, Uniqueness, Novelty Value and Innovativeness, Usability/Creativity, and Commercial Viability/Market Potential.
All the shortlisted developers were invited to London for the ‘Nokia Developer Summit 2010.’ The grand event saw some big-name guest speakers, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
‘Comics Creator’ is an easy-to-use mobile application that allows you to create your own comics, cartoon strips, photo journals, etc — even if you’re not an artist. With this application, you can turn your ideas into a comic format that you like, and share it with your friends.
Creating a comic story, a cartoon strip or a photo journal can never get this simpler and easier. ‘Nextwave’s Mobile Comics Creator’ allows you to do them all and much more— even if you are not an artist!
With this easy-to-use application, you too can create your own comics/photo journals. No matter where you are, you can turn your ideas into a comic format that you like, and share it with the world.
Features include:
# A library of backgrounds, characters in various emotive states, dialog bubbles, etc., for you to choose from.
# You can share your creations through Email & MMS.
‘Nextwave’s Mobile Comics Creator’ will be the first of its kind to be available on Nokia’s OVI Store. The application will also be launched on Android Market Place and Samsung’s App Store, shortly.
A morality-based game, Snakes & Ladders was invented by the ancient seers of India to teach the effects of karma(deeds). The ladders and snakes represent moral ascent and descent, respectively.
Our upgraded version is based on this original, age-old, Indian theme, and has long hours of game play.
In this version, whenever you’re bitten by a snake, you’ll take a different form - deer, insect, frog, etc. To restore the original form(human), you’ve to successfully complete a ‘Mini Snake & Ladder’ game.
When you reach the target, you’ll unlock two exciting games:
Mahjong - A simple, musical theme based matching game.
Gold Miner – An addictive tile-based game, in which you’ve to guide the ‘minecart’ carrying gold to reach its destination by swapping the jumbled squares to form a track. The game has infinite play levels. So, you can have non-stop fun.
Snakes & Ladders version 2.0, now available on Nokia’s OVI Store, will also be available on Apple’s iTunes Store, shortly.
Rambow Ramu, India’s first mobile comic series, is now available for download on the Samsung App Store. To download the comic series using Samsung mobile phones, click here.
The comic series can also be downloaded from Nokia’s OVI, Apple’s iTunes and Android Market Place.
Candidate profile:
- Analyze requirements and propose appropriate solutions
- Ability to work independently and in teams
- Must be able to communicate effectively with project managers,designers,QA team
1)iPhone:
Excellent knowledge of iPhone SDK.
Strong knowledge of C,C++,Objective-C,SIO2,Cocoa framework for iPhone.
Exposure to unity 3D game engines would be added advantage.
2)BlackBerry / Java ME:
Excellent knowledge of BlackBerry development using MDS Runtime,Eclipse® environment or the legacy BlackBerry® Java® Development Environment (BlackBerry JDE).
Knowledge of Java Application Development v5.0 Beta 5,BlackBerry Web Plug-in v2.0 Beta 1,BlackBerry Widget SDK v1.0 Beta 3 is an added advantage.
3)Android:
Excellent knowledge of development using Android SDK,Eclipse with ADT and Android NDK Release 1.
Candidates should send the resume to hr@nextwavemultimedia.com.
Fun Chess is a challenging, addictive and fast-paced game. The aim of the game is to attack the invading enemies, and defend your player, a knight, and your territory from them. There are two play options: Fun Play & Challenge Play.
The upgraded version contains 30 levels, loaded with action and fun. The classy graphics and a range of newly added features make the game all the more interesting, and exciting.
Features include: Fortune Wheel, Fire Ball & 3D perspective game play.
Check out the above video to have a glimpse of the game play.
The new version of ‘Snakes & Ladders’ has a longer game play and the game graphics has been re-visualised. In this version, when you reach the target (150th square), you unlock Mahjong, the classic matching game.
With two new games added, we have renamed and re-launched our carnival games.
‘Nextwave’s Carnival Blast’ is a set of exciting all time classic games, re-visualized and richly animated. From exhibiting your shooting prowess to testing your luck, there are 5 games for you to choose and play :
Puzzle Cups, Smash the Pumpkins, Jackpot, Shoot the Duck, and Darts.
