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Android breaks 80% smartphone share in China

By on 2012/09/07

“Google’s Android is continuing its impressive run in the Chinese smartphone market, soaring to 83 percent market share in the second quarter of 2012, according to a new report from Analysys. Nokia’s Symbian and Apple’s iOS have each been left with 6 percent share.”

Amazing figures from EnfoDesk. Symbian has dropped from 32% to 6% in just one year, bringing it on par with iOS. Now consider that Google Play does not provide paid apps in China, and you have a good explanation to the discrepancy between the total number of Android users and number of sold games on Android.

Read: Android breaks 80% smartphone share in China as Apple, Nokia pick up scraps (thenextweb.com)

Why do people by an Android phone instead of an iPhone?

By on 2012/08/14

According to an internal survey conducted by Apple in 2010, 30% of the people buying an Android phone (instead of an iPhone) did it because they wanted a larger screen. It will be interesting to see if the upcoming widescreen iPhone screen will be big enough for people to choose an iPhone instead.

Mashable is currently running a similar survey, and out of 1400 people voting so far 36% of them bought a Samsung phone due to the big screen.

Read: Users choose Androids over iPhones due to larger screens, Android Market (arstechnica.com)

Read: What’s the Appeal of Samsung Phones? (mashable.com)

Tiny Wings 2 – Teaser

By on 2012/07/07

Lovely teaser trailer for Tiny Wings 2 by Andreas Illiger. The game is coming on July 12.

Göteborgs Posten & Tomten

By on 2011/12/14

Eva Wieselgren at the local newspaper Göteborgs Posten was one of the beta testers of Tomten for iPhone. Follow the link below to read her comments on the game (Swedish only):

“Hinner jultomten få ut klapparna i tid? Inte om jag ska styra släden. Min tomte vinglar runt i luften som om han fått alldeles för mycket glögg till lussekatterna.”

Read more at GP.se

Download Tomten for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch

Volvo Trucks FH16

By on 2011/11/17

On November 3 Volvo Trucks launched the game FH16 which I have worked on as project leader and developer for almost a year now. If you have an Android device, iPhone 4, 4S or iPad 2, make sure you check it out – it’s fun and completely free!

The game was created with the game development engine Unity.

iPhone 4S Camera Tests

By on 2011/10/17

If you have been eying an iPhone 4S, here are some sweet reviews of its camera:

“A video shot on the iPhone 4S”

Lisa Bettany – iPhone 4S Macro Shots

iPhone 4S / Canon 5d MKII Side by Side Comparison

In med apparna – ut med webbtjänsterna

By on 2011/08/29

On Friday, August 26, I held a Mobile Trends seminar for over 220 business clients.

The Swedish newspaper Computer Sweden was there and posted an article about the seminar today (Swedish only):

Unity Light Probes

By on 2011/06/12

From the Unity Technologies Blog:

Light probes are an advanced technique for lighting dynamic objects and characters with high-quality baked lighting. It is possible to capture incoming direct and bounced lighting within a scene at a number of points – light probes. As a character moves through the scene, nearby probes are picked, interpolated, and the result is then passed to the shader to efficiently light the surface. There it can be sampled per-vertex or per-pixel, if you want to use the normalmap-perturbed normal to do so.

Looks very nice! Light Probes will arrive in Unity 3.5 for mobile devices.

Strong Growth for Unity

By on 2011/05/25

The game development platform Unity has doubled its user base the past 6 months:

“Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for awesome games and interactive 3D on the web, iOS, Android, consoles and beyond, today announced that its registered user base has doubled to more than 500,000 users in just over 6 months; 150,000 of these users are active monthly users representing well over a million hours of game development every month. In addition, installs of the free Unity browser plugin for playing web games have surpassed 60 million.”

Read the full press release

In a related press announcement, Game Developer Magazine readers named Unity the #1 game engine they use for traditional and casual games. Read the full story.

I have used Unity myself for almost three years now, and have always believed firmly in the potential of the platform. Congratulations to David Helgason and his crew for the success, you deserve it!

Game development for iPhone, iPad and Android devices

By on 2011/04/07

Are you interested in game development for iPhone, iPad and Android devices?

This week I held a seminar at the Scandinavian Developer Conference 2011 with the topic “Game Development with Unity for iOS and Android devices”. The topics of the seminar included:

  1. Introduction to the Unity game development platform
  2. Comparison between Unity and the Unreal Development Kit (UDK)
  3. Hands-on: Creating a complete game from start to finish with Unity, Modo and Photoshop

I filmed the entire seminar, and you can now watch it online:

You can also download the entire presentation as a PDF document. Happy coding!