Award-winning Filipino game now in Sony Ericsson P800
Written by: INQ7.net
Publication: INQ7.net
Date published: 9:50 PM (Manila Time) on August 27, 2003
Winning entry
SWORDS and spells and a dangerous journey will keep adventurers busy on their Sony Ericsson P800 as "Aramith's Quest: The Summoning," the award-winning interactive game from ePLDT, now comes for free with the Sony Ericsson P800.
Current P800 users can visit the Sony Ericsson booth at Rustan's Department Stores in Metro Manila, as well as the Sony Ericsson interactive stations in Memo Express SM Megamall and North EDSA, to have the game installed for free.
ePLDT developed the action and adventure fiction game for the mobile platform as an entry to Sony Ericsson's global challenge to develop original applications for the P800, Sony Ericsson's flagship mobile multimedia communications product.
The P800 features a built-in digital camera, a large full color touch screen with stylus, high speed Internet access, triple band access, a video and audio player, PDA features, Bluetooth, infrared and USB connectivity and flight mode for use on a plane. Its PDA functions can also be synchronized with common PC applications, making the P800 virtually a mini mobile computer.
The game "Aramith's Quest" won along with other applications from Germany, Russia, United States, Sweden, Finland, France and Thailand. Entries from around the world were judged on their innovativeness, practicality and "coolness" factor.
"It took three weeks to design and develop the game. Much of the time was spent developing the actual code. We didn't have much time and resources to add bells and whistles, but the final software was very much like how we planned it to be -- simple and concise," said ePLDT ContentDev Head Buddy Del Rosario.
His team includes former Fil-Cartoons artist Anton Gustilo, who handled overall game design and art production with Leomar Valiao, a GD designer into martial arts and music. Content engineers Elmer Andes, Jr., a PC game and anime enthusiast and Rick Emerson Ong, who enjoys bowling and the stock market, tackled programming. With their combined interests in movies and reading, the team set out to create a strong narrative for the game.
SWORDS and spells and a dangerous journey will keep adventurers busy on their Sony Ericsson P800 as "Aramith's Quest: The Summoning," the award-winning interactive game from ePLDT, now comes for free with the Sony Ericsson P800.
Current P800 users can visit the Sony Ericsson booth at Rustan's Department Stores in Metro Manila, as well as the Sony Ericsson interactive stations in Memo Express SM Megamall and North EDSA, to have the game installed for free.
ePLDT developed the action and adventure fiction game for the mobile platform as an entry to Sony Ericsson's global challenge to develop original applications for the P800, Sony Ericsson's flagship mobile multimedia communications product.
The P800 features a built-in digital camera, a large full color touch screen with stylus, high speed Internet access, triple band access, a video and audio player, PDA features, Bluetooth, infrared and USB connectivity and flight mode for use on a plane. Its PDA functions can also be synchronized with common PC applications, making the P800 virtually a mini mobile computer.
The game "Aramith's Quest" won along with other applications from Germany, Russia, United States, Sweden, Finland, France and Thailand. Entries from around the world were judged on their innovativeness, practicality and "coolness" factor.
"It took three weeks to design and develop the game. Much of the time was spent developing the actual code. We didn't have much time and resources to add bells and whistles, but the final software was very much like how we planned it to be -- simple and concise," said ePLDT ContentDev Head Buddy Del Rosario.
His team includes former Fil-Cartoons artist Anton Gustilo, who handled overall game design and art production with Leomar Valiao, a GD designer into martial arts and music. Content engineers Elmer Andes, Jr., a PC game and anime enthusiast and Rick Emerson Ong, who enjoys bowling and the stock market, tackled programming. With their combined interests in movies and reading, the team set out to create a strong narrative for the game.