GPRS Chess
Posted on Friday, August 22nd, 2003 8:23 PM
This is *really* fantastic. I'm going to grab it now and try. Jock at Pocket-Monkey is also working on a bunch of multiplayer J2ME based games as well (which also integrate with applets and email) so it looks like this is just the beginning.Ubiquitous online gaming is a revolution
I've just been playing chess on my Nokia 3650. But instead of playing 'against the computer' I was playing a real person, in Italy. I'm sure he didn't realise that I was wiping an Irish mist from my eyes as I made my breafast and it didn't matter. He may have been crusing down the Tiber for all I knew.
GPRS Chess is still a little rough around the edges, as you'd expect from a beta version (0.71B), but its good enough that you can appreciate the amazing opportunity for ubiquitous online gaming. With a PC I'm stuck to playing at a desk. With a GambeBoy I can only play against the microprocessor. With a Symbian/J2ME mobile phone I can play anyone anywhere and that's revolutionary.
And its exactly why the Nokia N-Gage will be a huge success!
We're like the town criers, James and I... "HEY! LOOK! The revolution is here! Look! Look!" :-)
-Russ