I decided to enter the competition 2 months ago. I started working on my entry by reusing code from 3 other projects that I had done before. I spent about 2 weeks putting it all together. Once I had something up and running, a Graphic Artist (Liam Welford) from England contacted me about one of my old projects. I told him about the new ADC2 project, and we spent the next 4 weeks working together via e- mail (I have never met Liam as I live in Australia). The project was pretty much done 2 weeks early, so I then started adding new features to it, which, I believe, turned out to be the coolest features of the game. I worked full time on it, while Liam worked part time.
The thing I found most challenging was getting steady performance out of the Android phone. It is very tricky, as the phone can be running a bunch of stuff in the background (receiving emails, weather widgets updates, ...) and your game has to allow the phone to process these requests while still maintaining a smooth gaming experience. App: Head To Head Racing Description: Multi-player Car Racing Game Website: http://headtoheadracing.appspot.com/ Code: Craig Mitchell Art: Liam Welford I think a lot of people entered the ADC2 because it will be great exposure for their apps. Your don't need to win for people to notice, just place above the average, and you'll be noticed. Cheers. On Sep 2, 12:41 am, Lout <[email protected]> wrote: > While you developers relax... would you mind sharing what apps to > expect through this challenge.. and anything else you wish to share > about ADC2 submissions... well anything including the fact: 'thank > God, no more sleep less nights'! > > Am collecting information about the challenge (ADC2) for a news > article as am with cnet (and AP). Pitch your app if you have already > published or would soon publish on the market too. > > Your app name and description, web link if any, experience with > ADC2, ... anything would be useful for our article(s). > > And do you feel that there would have been more submissions than in > ADC1? > Is the competition going to be tougher or less profound as you were > allowed to put up apps not published before 1st Aug only? > > Do you think that all apps that didn't try for ADC1 should have had a > chance? > > Congratulations on your submissions while you wait for the next > phase. > Thanks, > Lout Reilly > ps: Moderators we request you to let this through so that you too get > some feedback. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
