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With so many choices of Twitter apps becoming available in the Windows Phone Marketplace, it can be a lost cause try each choice and decide which Twitter client app best suits your needs. Currently most WP owners are well aware of and use the 3 most publicised Twitter client apps. Those would be the official Twitter app, Mehdoh, and Carbon. I love Twitter and am able to keep up with friends and all the news. I myself, until recent, used Mehdoh when I stumbled upon this beautifully designed but little known Twitter client called TwiDeep. Today I introduce you to TwiDeep, readers meet Twideep, TwiDeep meet the readers. I am officially an avid Twideep user now! After talking with Deepra LTD, developer of TwiDeep, I wanted to share their app with you! Read pass the break for current features, upcoming features, and the download…
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It’s no secret that I want to encourage more developers into the Windows Phone app scene and one of my favourite homebrew apps at present is the Battery Status app with Live tile support, from a developer on XDA-Devs, I contacted him and requested an interview and my request was favourably received.
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We got the chance to speak to Josh and Samuel the guys behind Wario’s Jewels 7 and they informed us the NoDo version is going up today !!! If you want to get it as soon as it goes up I would suggest keeping en eye on their twitter account.
The devs have informed us : The build that is shown in the emulator is not the final build. The final build is much better and the UI is redone.
1. Tell us a bit about Wario’s Jewels 7 and how it works ?
Wario’s Jewels 7 (WJ7) is an emulator of the classical gameboy. It isn’t a GameBoy color emulator (not yet). It has been written in C# for Silverlight from a blank paper. WJ7 isn’t the best GB emulator ever but it works pretty well :)
2. Tell us a bit about the team behind Wario’s Jewels 7
The Team behind Wario’s Jewels 7 consists of a group of dedicated people who are passionate about 3rd party homebrew for Windows Phone and have worked tirelessly to get Wario’s Jewels where it is today. Samuel Blanchard is the developer of WJ7. Josh Bogolub is in charge of the communication of the product. Other members of the WJ7 team are testers.
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Tell us a bit about IdentityMine? Who are you guys? What do you do?
We were founded in 2001 and have become a premier provider of technology services around the world. IdentityMine is a software application development firm, and we specialize in user experiences, interactive design, and natural user interfaces. We are a group of like-minded individuals that share a passion for meaningful and impactful applications. Our software developers, UX designers, project managers, and integrators all work closely together to build the software experiences many people use every day. We all work very hard, but we love to play too! We are explorers and boundary pushers – which has positioned us as a strategic partner for Microsoft; we are frequently entrusted to help roll-out new technologies and platforms like Windows 7, Surface, and Windows Phone 7.
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Dont know Elbert Perez ? Hint One : Many be you will recognize him by his twitter handle @mechaghost.. still nothing ? How about Hint Two : his blog OccasionalGamer.com still nothing ?? here is a dead give-away recognize any of those icons on your start screen ? Then you are playing one of his games
This list is going to grow over time , we should have a review for another on of his games going up later today called ” Traffic Cop “, but before than lets learn a bit about Elbert Perez and what motivates him to develop for WP7.
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We recently shows you guys a nice looking puzzle game for Windows Phone 7 called vizati. We got the chance to speak with the folks from Different Pixel who developed the game.
QYou guys are new to us ( the Windows Phone folks ) so tell us a bit about yourself and the games you guys develop ?
Currently Different Pixel is composed by one programmer and one designer. We both have around 4 years of professional experience in game development but we are now making the first game as indie developers. We currently have a couple of projects and Vizati is our first finished game. It will be available on PC on June 11th.
You guys can try out the PC version of the game http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-VIZ/vizati ( will be released on June 11th )
QWhy jump in to WP7 development ? Are the games ported to other mobile OS like the iPhone or Android ?
We jumped into WP7 development mainly out of curiosity but it turned out great. Our internal engine is build on top of XNA 3.1 and when WP7 was presented we decided to see what would take to port the game to WP7. Also to test how good the game would be on such a platform without jumping right into IPhone. An IPhone version is currently on development, as for the Android we still haven’t made a decision.
QHow long did you guys take to port the game ?
Took us 3 days to port the game and get it running on the emulator. Our engine was flexible enough since we were already working on it for both PC and Xbox so the new changes to a new platform were relatively easy to make. We had to change some of the syntax to match XNA 4 and of course considering the touch screen instead of a keyboard/mouse.
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Predrag Tomasevic from codeproject.com takes us through the software store on the 3 major smartphone WM, iPhone and Android. He goes through some of the experience had had to face while developing for each platform and runs through the submission process on each of them ( with sales data and time taken for approval, etc ).
Conclusion :
Windows Mobile Marketplace is just horrible. The only positive thing I can think of is that it’s not crowded and that really nice applications which are up there now will have better chance to eventually earn good profit when (and if) Marketplace lives up to the expectations. Everything else, from support to infrastructure and exposure is, as I said, just horrible (really felt need to repeat that). At this point of time you are currently better off trying to make money out of your WM app over at Samsung Apps or similar stores that are opened for number of years. Which is really a shame, because I expect Microsoft will eventually get it right.
iPhone AppStore : if you never developed using C/Objective-C – don’t bother to follow the buzz, there is almost no real chance that you’ll be able to repeat existing rags-to-riches story (which are undeniably true). It is way too much crowd, you’ll need way too much time to get your skill to certain level and most good ideas are already tried out – including “pretend-you-are-cute-looking-chick-developer-who-likes-balls”. If you are really good in C/Objective-C and haven’t already followed Steve’s call to arms – you’ll need knack for design, awesome idea and sleek implementation to develop something worthy of pushing and making it stand out, especially now that the big guys are bracing themselves to overtake whole market.
Android Market : You can’t imagine my surprise when after Windows Marketplace and Apple AppStore experience I clicked on Submit button and saw “Published” next to my application. For 10 minutes I couldn’t believe that application was available so I checked from two different phones to be sure. Simply because of that Android Market has my sympathy and I believe that the move they made will hugely influence battle of markets we are currently witnessing.
Our Take : Predrag seems to be impressed with Android Market , it seems that he was quite happy to see his app approved and available quite quickly ( and with much less effort ) . From a developers point of view that is certainly very good. But with the news of a phishing App that was approved and available via the Android Market, as a user I would be concerned.
We have been rambling about the issues with WM Marketplace for a while now and some of the developers we have interviewed have raised concerns of their own [ Ageye, slimCODE, Manbolo ] and iPhone developers have their share of issues and problems with the AppStore ( policy concerning rejection criteria ) .
head over to codeproject.com for the full story ( its quite an interesting read )
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YellowStar: No sign of a WP7 app for it yet though! And no API as far as I can see either.
Saijo George: @Sanjay , @DeeDee and @SAHITYA KUMAR Glad you guys like em :)
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Sanjay: Beautiful! Saijo George: thanks for the Tip mate :)
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