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My company, Abstract Worlds Ltd, has developed a game app for Samsung's new Internet TV platform, and entered it into a European Samsung developer contest.
The Samsung contest is an EU-wide developer challenge, and there are 3 separate target market contests: UK, Germany, France. Each contest is open to the whole EU, and out of the 19 accepted submissions to the UK contest, only 7 were from UK-based developers. So my company is one of the few companies representing the UK in this European challenge, even for the UK contest. It's a bit like Eurovision, but for apps not songs!
I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at our game, and if you like the app, please vote for it. Voting requires a simple registration (to avoid multiple voting) but Samsung say they wont use the emails for any other purpose.
The game is called Maze Racing Robots:
www.samsungsmarttvchallenge.eu/submissions/1635
(including a youtube video of the game with commentary from me!)
The vote button is on the above page, which kicks off a vote registration process.
The Samsung Internet TV app platform is quite a simple platform only allowing simple games. In some ways it is not even as powerful as an iPhone for gaming (no OpenGL 3D, no compiled executables, a TV remote for user input etc), so to develop a game is quite a challenge in itself. Samsung Internet TVs and Blu-ray players do have other important features too, like a YouTube app as standard so you can watch youtube on your TV.
And you can get one of these Samsung Blu-ray devices now for £89 from Amazon (Samsung BD-C5500 - it says Wifi ready but that means you have to purchase an additional USB dongle, but it definitely is internet ready as standard since it has an ethernet port which you can link up to your broadband router)
Our Maze Racing Robots game got a mention on "The Register" (a popular IT news website) as part of their coverage of the Samsung contest:
Samsung TV app competition - no winners here
Our game was described in true Charlie Brooker Screenwipe sarcasm style as:
"robots racing rather sedately through mazes"
which I though was very amusing and up to The Register's usual "biting the hands that feed IT" quality commentary.
Thanks for your support, and I hope this post has helped inform you of this big new technology platform and app market by Samsung, and what we, as one very small UK company, are doing in this area.
The Samsung contest is an EU-wide developer challenge, and there are 3 separate target market contests: UK, Germany, France. Each contest is open to the whole EU, and out of the 19 accepted submissions to the UK contest, only 7 were from UK-based developers. So my company is one of the few companies representing the UK in this European challenge, even for the UK contest. It's a bit like Eurovision, but for apps not songs!
I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at our game, and if you like the app, please vote for it. Voting requires a simple registration (to avoid multiple voting) but Samsung say they wont use the emails for any other purpose.
The game is called Maze Racing Robots:
www.samsungsmarttvchallenge.eu/submissions/1635
(including a youtube video of the game with commentary from me!)
The vote button is on the above page, which kicks off a vote registration process.
The Samsung Internet TV app platform is quite a simple platform only allowing simple games. In some ways it is not even as powerful as an iPhone for gaming (no OpenGL 3D, no compiled executables, a TV remote for user input etc), so to develop a game is quite a challenge in itself. Samsung Internet TVs and Blu-ray players do have other important features too, like a YouTube app as standard so you can watch youtube on your TV.
And you can get one of these Samsung Blu-ray devices now for £89 from Amazon (Samsung BD-C5500 - it says Wifi ready but that means you have to purchase an additional USB dongle, but it definitely is internet ready as standard since it has an ethernet port which you can link up to your broadband router)
Our Maze Racing Robots game got a mention on "The Register" (a popular IT news website) as part of their coverage of the Samsung contest:
Samsung TV app competition - no winners here
Our game was described in true Charlie Brooker Screenwipe sarcasm style as:
"robots racing rather sedately through mazes"
which I though was very amusing and up to The Register's usual "biting the hands that feed IT" quality commentary.
Thanks for your support, and I hope this post has helped inform you of this big new technology platform and app market by Samsung, and what we, as one very small UK company, are doing in this area.
