Flash, Flex, iPhone, Android

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If you are wandering what the next big thing set to revolutionise your skiing holiday experience is. Well, we know and we have the prevlidge of providing this exciting new start up with a ground up digital strategy. Throughout the next few months we will be brining you the European launch and some unique promotional activity that will put this company on the map.

It is no secret Twisted Studio has been contracting on iPhone projects for over a year now. Now for the first time Twisted Studio can develop for Android and iPhone applications at the same time. To some Android is a whisper in the wind but for your information, Android the Google operating system is  Apples true major mobile competitor, much in the same way Microsoft took on Apple in the 80's and won, so will Android for the same reasons.

Android vs iPhone - The Future

Android is open source, its being adopted by all the major mobile phone manufacturers to create the next generation of smart phones, it has an easier development process. This means more developers will create more content in the long run and new models are just as powerful if not even better than the iPhone's on the market today. Best of all, its an open market so your not going to need to worry about application rejection.

This is a shout out to all business owners looking to secure a place in the mobile applications market. Join with Twisted Studio to hedge your bets in the next generation of mobile phone applications. Next year we'll be adding Blackberry to our service offer.

We've always fancied ourselves as a digital media production house that could trump London bases studio's and deliver cutting edge interactive content for much better value. This month we're delighted to announce that we have started another London based collaboration with Flynn Productions a London based creator content on all platforms: live action, animation, photography and design work across the board.  A bunch of ruddy lovely people who we hope we can work with many more times in the future.

Twisted Studio was commissioned to create two interactive elements of a large scale web site being unrolled in 2010.  You can see the demo versions here on our website:

• Flash Tile Game - A flash tile based game with seamless video content between stages
• Video Timelapse Journey Through London - A framework to show a series of interlinked videos as your drive really fast around London to see the sights.

We really look forward to seeing these two when they join the main website which will be completed for the launch in Spring 2010.

We are moving surely but steadily into the realms of experimental interactivity technology to bring new dimensions into marketing strategies. It stands to reason of course that we need to involved in all that is unholy and crazy in the digital world... so happily we meandered over to the reLaunch of the Cultural Lab in Newcastle and boy were we amazed by the shere coolness in toys they let us play with.

Firstly however, what is Cultural Lab? Here is what they say. Cultural Lab is :

• A centre for creative inquiry in the broadest sense of the term
• A world class research facility for experimentation in interactive media
• A Hub, hosting and incubating projects in art and technology
• An actor in the North East's cultural ecology, sharing knowledge in our digital society

Humaniquarium

Very cool touch screen technology using IR and cameras

These are just two of the ones we had the most fun playing with but there is more... so much more!!

For those who haven't had the pleasure of popping down to our office as of late, we now have a suitably twisted hand painted wall mural smack bang outside our office. Its visible from the main Boho corridor, so if ever you find yourself meandering the corridors of the Boho building feel free to take a peek at this unique piece of artwork:)

Gravity or Rage?

So this was the end for a beloved member of the Twisted Team, for many months it had been there to support me, cheek to cheek. Alas poor Ergo i knew him only a short time, but he and his 'Made in China' label must now live in a skip....

Just going to prove what everyone always tells me... don't sit down so hard, your not exactly a small guy... suppose there is no denying it now... anyway moving on, silver linings and all that jazz, its time for my new chair...

Whip out the plastic lads I'm going shopping!

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Exciting times!! We're soooo... looking forward to attending Flash on the beach , we missed out last year because of a China trade mission. But no more excuses, we should be there, so much to learn and share, so many familiar flash developers to make connections with. We can't wait!! It's going to be great!!

It's exciting times....augmented reality is finally seeing more wide spread mass market gaming implementations, after many years of teasing us with odd ball museum pieces and tech demo videos/obscure experiments, with upcoming DS and PSP releases, which are definitely worth checking out:

invizimals

ghostwire

With Invizimals being of particular interest, I'm almost tempted to finally get around to buying myself a PSP to complete the olde console collection.

On another note, and of much more interest to Twisted is this little nugget...FLARToolkit

Yes AR in flash through a WebCam, some crazy people over in Japan have been playing with it for a while now, with an actionscript version of the ARToolkit, called FLARToolkit and its about time we get a little creative ourselves, watch this space as our voodoo wizards get to work on brewing up some more flash magic.