{"id":582090,"date":"2010-05-27T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=16727"},"modified":"2010-05-27T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:26:07","slug":"microsoft-commissioning-20-casual-windows-mobile-games-from-singaporean-games-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582090","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft commissioning 20 casual Windows Mobile games from Singaporean games company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"MediaPlayer\" classid=\"clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95\" width=\"630\" height=\"472\" standby=\"Loading Windows Media Player components\u2026\" type=\"application\/x-oleobject\" codebase=\"http:\/\/activex.microsoft.com\/activex\/controls\/mplayer\/en\/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,7,1112\"><param name=\"FileName\" value=\"http:\/\/202.172.180.52\/today\/16751.wmv\"><param name=\"AutoStart\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"ShowControls\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"BufferingTime\" value=\"2\"><param name=\"ShowStatusBar\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"AutoSize\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"InvokeURLs\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"AnimationatStart\" value=\"1\"><param name=\"TransparentatStart\" value=\"1\"><param name=\"Loop\" value=\"0\"><embed type=\"application\/x-mplayer2\" src=\"http:\/\/202.172.180.52\/today\/16751.wmv\" name=\"MediaPlayer\" autostart=\"0\" showstatusbar=\"1\" showdisplay=\"1\" showcontrols=\"1\" loop=\"0\" videoborder3d=\"0\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Windows\/MediaPlayer\/\" width=\"630\" height=\"472\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has commissioned Singaporean Touch Dimensions to create 20 casual Windows Mobile games. The games range from a digital sketchpad to a Whack-A-Mole-type game that lets you smack mosquitoes to oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Autumn Dynasty (in the video above), a war-based strategy game where you draw the attack paths for your armies with brush strokes, won the best student game award at last year&#8217;s Game Developers Conference in Shanghai, and was also one of the Microsoft Code 7 contest winners at last year&#8217;s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The game has already garnered 48,000 downloads.<\/p>\n<p>Touch Dimensions develops games centred around &quot;natural user interfaces&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;re looking at things that are more natural to play with, such as touchscreens and sensors that let you turn and rotate the device,&quot; Touch Dimension\u2019s Ho told TodayOnline. &quot;This allows people to play with games in more intuitive ways.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The games will be available for free on <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=marketplace\" >Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the developers and their games at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/Tech\/EDC100528-0000047\/A-stroke-of-genius\" >TodayOnline here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 336x280, created 1\/7\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0551502062\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has commissioned Singaporean Touch Dimensions to create 20 casual Windows Mobile games. 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One of them, Autumn Dynasty (in the video above), a war-based strategy game where you draw the attack paths for your armies with brush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}