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Chillingo has recently announced Crystal, its social gaming platform for the iPhone, which provides developers with a “fully integrated and transparent framework to include social features in their games.”
The free for everyone platform, Chillingo sees it as iPhone’s answer to Microsoft’s Xbox Live. In that sense, it will enable players to create their own profile, add friends, store achievements and game histories and compete with friends via direct challenges in multiple games. It is fully integrated into popular social network gateways such as Facebook Connect and Twitter, and will also allow players to discover games they like more easily.
Sounds promising, hence Chillingo’s Chris Byatte doesn’t hide his enthusiasm, saying: “Crystal gives developers and gamers a bigger plus all round. It is set to become the de-facto social gaming standard for iPhone and iPod touch.”
We’ll see where that goes. In the meantime, there’s a dedicated website where you can sign-up to be informed when Crystal SDK is out.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
