Game Developers Conference (GDC) – Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) today
announced that a public beta version of the Palm® webOS™
Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) is now available at the Palm Developer
Center (developer.palm.com).
Palm is demonstrating new games from early PDK developers in its booth
at GDC (No. 2016).
The PDK complements the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK),
letting developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that
power the SDK and mix them seamlessly within a single app. The PDK
enables new functionality, including immersive 3D graphics, and gives
developers who have built games for other platforms an easy way to bring
their titles to the webOS platform. Developers can download the beta PDK
and start developing today, but distribution of games built with the
beta PDK will require functionality provided in an upcoming Palm webOS
update.
"Palm webOS is the go-to platform for great games on two of the three
leading carrier networks,” said Katie Mitic, senior vice president,
Product Marketing, Palm, Inc. "We have both the developer tools and the
hardware necessary for a world-class gaming experience, and an
impressive portfolio of webOS game titles from top-notch developers to
show for it.”
At CES in January, Palm introduced 12 games built by four leading
developers with early access to the PDK:
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"Asphalt 5” (Gameloft)
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"Brain Challenge®” (Gameloft)
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"Glyder 2” (Glu Mobile)
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"Let’s Golf!” (Gameloft)
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"MONOPOLY” (EA Mobile™)
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"Need for Speed™ Undercover” (EA Mobile)
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"SCRABBLE” (EA Mobile)
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"Sudoku” (EA Mobile)
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"Tetris®” (EA Mobile)
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"The Oregon Trail” (Gameloft)
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"The Sims™ 3” (EA Mobile)
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"X-Plane” (Laminar Research)
Since then, more than 20 exciting webOS titles have been launched by
these early-access developers:
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"Apollo” (Laminar Research)
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"Assassin’s Creed™ – Altair’s Chronicles” (Gameloft)
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"Brothers In Arms®: Hour of Heroes” (Gameloft)
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"Castle of Magic” (Gameloft)
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"Deer Hunter 3D” (Glu Mobile)
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"Dungeon Hunter” (Gameloft)
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"Earthworm Jim” (Gameloft)
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"Gangstar: West Coast Hustle” (Gameloft)
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"Giant Fighting Robots” (Laminar Research)
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"Guitar Hero 5 Mobile” (Glu Mobile)
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"Hero of Sparta” (Gameloft)
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"Real Soccer 2010” (Gameloft)
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"Real Tennis” (Gameloft)
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"World Series of Poker: Hold’em Legend” (Glu Mobile)
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"X-Plane Airliner” (Laminar Research)
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"X-Plane Carrier” (Laminar Research)
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"X-Plane Extreme” (Laminar Research)
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"X-Plane Glider” (Laminar Research)
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"X-Plane Helicopter” (Laminar Research)
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"X-Plane Racing” (Laminar Research)
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"X-Plane Space Shuttle” (Laminar Research)
"The Palm webOS PDK is extremely powerful and far-reaching, as evidenced
by the number of titles we’ve been able to bring to the webOS platform
in a very short time,” said Baudouin Corman, vice president of
publishing, Americas, Gameloft. "It’s quite difficult to make a great
phone that’s also an outstanding gaming platform; Palm has been
successful delivering both.”
More information about the beta PDK is available at the Palm Developer
Center (developer.palm.com).
More information about games for Palm webOS is available at www.palm.com/applications.
About Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc. creates intuitive and powerful mobile experiences that enable
consumers and businesses to connect to their information in more useful
and usable ways. The company’s groundbreaking Palm® webOS™
platform, designed exclusively for mobile application, introduces true
multitasking and Palm Synergy™, which brings your information from the
many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view of your
life.
Palm products are sold through select Internet, retail, reseller and
wireless operator channels, and at the Palm online store (www.palm.com/store).
More information about Palm, Inc. is available at www.palm.com.
Palm, Synergy, and webOS are trademarks of Palm, Inc. All other
trademarks belong to their respective owners.
