I just posted the Pie Game to the android marketplace and the blackberry marketplace. I made it in response to blackberry's offer of giving away free Playbook tablets to developers that submit applications to their marketplace.
If you haven't heard of it:
http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/01/free-blackberry-playbook-tablet-of...
The steps were pretty simple for AIR.
- Download Flash Builder Burrito
- Download the AIR SDK for Blackberry
- Apply to the Vendor portal for Blackberry (This can be done before, during, or after you create your application). For an individual, RIM will send you a proof of identity statement you will need notarized. You can do this at a lot of places for a dollar. I went to UPS across the street.
- Create your application (It has to be something more than a single function app, like a graphic or link).
- Submit your application once they've approved your account. It took about 2 days for them to do that once I emailed them the proof of identication form.
All in all the pie game was created in two sets of weekends. The first weekend was originally for a 4k game contest, where it was created in under 4 kilobytes. And now for the playbook offer it's a Flex AIR app, now about 1,200 kilobytes, but now on Mobile devices! And it has new features, like cooler graphics and the ability to save, and a second campaign set.
So make an app and get an awesome new toy. It could take you less than a weekend and you'll have fun making it.
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