Tag Archives: Mobile

ESA AppCamp 2013

Earlier on this year I got selected as one of twenty participants to participate in the European space agency’s app camp. The goal of the ESA app camp is for mobile developers to create apps for normal people using the satellite data available from ESA.

I attended the app camp in June and it was absolutely amazing I learned a lot about the European space agency but I also learned lots from the very talented mobile developers that were also there.

Me at ESRIN

Me at ESRIN

The goal of the camp is to form an international team of four and at the end of the camp produce an app. As part of the camp I was placed in the “Observe and Learn” team, a team focused on creating an educational android app. The app we developed is called LifeRama.

liferama 2 liferama 1

The demonstration version of the application is also available now.

Get it on Google Play

Unfortunately our team never won but put that down to the app idea being too awesome for them to comprehend. However the experience of being there was much better than the prize that was on offer.

AppCamp press release: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GMES/App_Camp_creates_new_ideas_for_using_satellite_data

I would highly recommend any mobile developer to sign up for next year’s event.

http://www.app-camp.eu/

StormGate 2 Years On

This day two years ago I released my very first game and i’m quite happy to that two years on it still manages to rake a good amount of downloads and sales.

Which Is why I have decided to release it on windows phone. I have learned a lot during the past two years and It will be noticeable in StormGate for windows phone. The new version was completely rebuilt from scratch, I wanted to build something that would be extremely expandable, so that it will be very easy to update in the future if becomes popular.

Windows Phone – The way it is meant to be played

StormGate on a mobile device just feels more natural, the games is seamless with touch and gesture controls. It allows you to jump quickly in the game and manage your town on the fly.

StormGate For Windows Phone Coming Soon

Paddler Log Update – Editing and Miles

I Managed to find some time to update paddler log. I haven’t updated it in a while and I had been busy working on Stormgate mobile in my free time but I decided to take a break from it and work on paddlers log, which is gaining in popularity.

Android app on Google Play

The feedback system has been very useful and I appreciate greatly the messages you submit. I have added your most requested features imperial units and editing (sorry that should I have been in from the start but it is now).

Whats new

  • River and trip entries can now be edited.
  • Metric and imperial measurements now supported
  • App can now be moved to SD card
  •  Delete more visible
  •  Graphical enchantments
  •  Performance optimization
  •  Fixed crash issues

 

As I’m usually always busy, once I manage to find some free time I will able adding a lot more useful exciting features. Here are just some of the new features planned.

Whats coming

  • Lots of statistic graphs
  • More statistics
  • Support for other destination locations such as lakes and the seaside
  • Online backup system – access all your data on the paddlerslog website
  • Maps
  • Calendar view

Progress Going Well

My plan is to hopefully get it completely ported over so that it’s the exact same quality as the Xbox version.

Just some of the New features

  • New Towers
  • New Enemies
  • New Levels
  • New Spells
  • Huge improvements to the town building system
  • An online scoreboard (maybe)
  • Various Graphical improvements (Such as themed levels)
  • An easier to use interface

 

Windows Phone

So I recently manged to very luckily win a new Nokia Lumia 800 in a competition. I have been playing about with it quite a bit .I’m really impressed how easy it is to quickly make stuff for it.

Look Familiar?

 

I do plan on bringing my Paddler Log app to that sometime (I will still be working on the android version however).

Paddler Log Android App

I created this application a while ago as something that I would personally find useful and I decided to release it on the android market to see if any one else might find it helpfull. From the usage figures people appeared to have found it useful and the amount of users has been increasing pretty much at a constant pace . So I decided to finally update it and I spent alot of time making an interface thats alot more cleaner and quicker to use than the original.

Paddler Log on the Android Market

Screenshots


This app will allow you to keep to track of every river trip you go on , as well as allowing you to keep information of the rivers you have been on.
It’s very quick and easy to use  ,it is designed it to be effortless .
It will also allow you to view a summary of your kayaking adventures displaying information such as total distance paddled etc.

 

Some Future Plans for this 

  • Ability to post you trips to  Facebook ( It’s already in but disabled as it need some more work and polish)
  • Ability for users to post feedback ( Such as new feature requests) in the about screen
  • More information displayed in the summary screen.