blackberry demo scene?
category: general [glöplog]
just out of curiosity - there seem to be no scene productions for blackberry; is it an unpopular platform? if yes, why?
because only americans use it and america has no demoscene, GNA GNA GNA!
true, true.
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GNA GNA GNA!
Absolutely not true at all but whatever... There are very few demos for mobile phones of any kind though.
well yes. but blackberry seems not to be so widespread in the scene?
Who wants a phone with 100 keys?
well... i have no idea.
rac, yup they seem to be more popular with business type who read a lot of email, and increasingly popular with teenagers wanting to use social networking and instand messaging. Not so with creative types, it seems, and there are far more attractive phones from a demo-making point of view anyhow.
well okay. however, job-wise i am deveoping software for the blackberry since recently. having not contributed to the scene for quite a long time i wondered whether this would be an opportunity (since i now have job-wise a blackberry curve 8900 as "official phone").
do it! :)
no, because consultants are more obsessed by sending mails and meetings in order to extort even more funds from the company than watching ribbons
xernobyl, me?
in fact the keyboard is not as bad as you might think!
I was just asking, not offering. Sorry skrebbel.
I've done some BB coding actually :) Sephiron/YUP and I wanted to start selling games for it.
However, for demos, it doesn't seem to be that great. I'm not sure as to the OpenGL ES implementation on the phones...
...we actually tried to do software rendering, and got hung up just doing simple lines and whatnot. It's pretty difficult to get anything fast enough, because Java sucks (and will always suck) and there's no direct framebuffer access.
And yes. There IS a demoscene in the US :P
However, for demos, it doesn't seem to be that great. I'm not sure as to the OpenGL ES implementation on the phones...
...we actually tried to do software rendering, and got hung up just doing simple lines and whatnot. It's pretty difficult to get anything fast enough, because Java sucks (and will always suck) and there's no direct framebuffer access.
And yes. There IS a demoscene in the US :P
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well okay. however, job-wise i am deveoping software for the blackberry since recently. having not contributed to the scene for quite a long time i wondered whether this would be an opportunity (since i now have job-wise a blackberry curve 8900 as "official phone").
That's exactly the sort of thinking which got me into writing Javascript and iPod demos, so: hell yes. (Although admittedly the Blackberry doesn't have the same "so stupid it's awesome" factor as those platforms did in the mid-2000s.)
ferris: *hug* ;)
*nerdvoice* in fact, the bb curve has only 35 keys, not 100.
Pretty much reasons as listed, plus one: it's Java, isn't it? :)
