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by Derek Kessler Sat, 01 May 2010 10:07 am EDT

App Catalog Palm wasn’t kidding around when they said they wanted more PDK apps to be submitted. As such, the good folks at Mobile 1UP submitted their entire catalog of mobile games, including the complete GW series, for consideration. And now you too can play their game on your Pre. That, and the Twitter app that beta testers have been raving about has finally arrived - that's right, TweetMe is here, and it’s got some introductory pricing action going to boot. Head on past the break to see it all happen in listacular form.

New apps:

  • 8 Octave Pitch Pipe, Free, by Bradley Graber: A simple pitch pipe.
  • abiosis : chains, $0.99, by Mobile 1UP: Remove as many calls from the screen as you can by triggering chain reactions.
  • Ancient Frog, $4.99, by Ancient Workshop: Move your from across the screen in this rock-climbing style puzzle.
  • Cronk, $2.99, by Mobile 1UP: Save your tribal villages from destruction by throwing boulders in to the path of an avalanche.
  • effekts, Free, by Mobile 1UP: Real-time 3D visual effects demonstration.
  • GW Escape, $1.99, by Mobile 1UP: Part three of the GW series - the germs have taken over and you need to evacuate, use the bounce-bot to launch lab-techs out of harm’s way.
  • GW Jetpack, $1.99, by Mobile 1UP: Part four of the GW series - the jetpack Army has arrived to sterilize the lab, position the pontoon for their landings.
  • GW Lab, $1.99, by Mobile 1UP: Part one of the GW series - save your lab and self from monkey-flung germ samples.
  • GW Monkey, $1.99, by Mobile 1UP: Part two of the GW series - juggle fruit as a monkey, keeping your food in the air and away from the germs on the ground.
  • GW Monster, $1.99, by Mobile 1UP: Part five of the GW series - you've found the master germ, now it’s time to place some TNT and blow him to smithereens.
  • GW Retreat, $1.99, by Mobile 1UP: Part six of the GW series - the germs are dead and now you have to avoid fall-out as you run back to the copter.
  • GW Series, $4.99, by Mobile 1UP: All six of the retro-updated GW series games in one package.
  • Ideal Weight, Free, by estudio32: Calculate your ideal weight and your current BMI.
  • Les Blondes 12.2, $5.11, by MobiLire: Episodes 2-6 of the French Les Blondes comic series.
  • Simple StopWatch, Free, by Suruat: Stop watch with landscape vide, highlight lap times, and bible verses.
  • Sun Tzu Quotes, $1.99, by Brighthouse Labs: “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
  • Swami Vivekananda Quotes, $1.99, by Brighthouse Labs: Quotes from the 18th century Indian mystic responsible for the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the west.
  • TweetMe - Fun new Twitter app, $1.50, by Catalyst Media Studios: Beautifully-formatted Twitter client, introductory priced at $1.50.

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21 Comments

Posted by Spyral on Sat, 01 May 2010 10:16 am EDT

I can't find Ancient Frog in the US Catalog.

Also, GameCenter is still v1.0.1. Not updated for me.

Posted by bcombee on Sat, 01 May 2010 1:04 pm EDT

Ancient Frog had to be removed temporarily to resolve a compatibility issue. It should be back soon.

Posted by Spyral on Sat, 01 May 2010 7:07 pm EDT

Thanks for the reply. Although it brings up another concern: If it's been removed, why does it still show in the Precentral feed? Does the information not draw from the same source?

Posted by kkhanmd on Sat, 01 May 2010 11:34 am EDT

Great work. Thanks mobile 1up. I wish next pre has digital compass and apps related to it.

Question for mobile 1 up: Was it hard to port these apps? Is it easy to add web os specific gestures like forward swipe? back swipe?

Posted by ardiri on Sat, 01 May 2010 11:41 am EDT

@kkhanmd - our games are designed to be portable - so it took us like 5 hours to migrate to the palm pre (for all of them). other developers may take a little longer, but with SDL and open gl support within the PDK - it is only really the user interface and system level integration that
needs rebuilding. the slides from the developer day are here:

http://www.slideshare.net/ardiri/game-development-using-sdl-and-the-pdk

we already have support for gestures - but it is a question where you put support for them. we have back support to go from the individual game screen to the game selection screen within gw-series, the gestures map to SDL keyboard events. piece of cake to support! :) if the hybrid PDK-mojo support was ready, you would also be able to submit high scores - we'll be saving that for an update! :)

Posted by apalemick on Sat, 01 May 2010 2:20 pm EDT

Not sure what this means. Are these games you have on the iPhone and Android and were able to just move them over the WebOS because of the PDK? Palm has made it that easy?

Posted by ardiri on Sat, 01 May 2010 2:23 pm EDT

we designed our games in a way which made it very easy to do this.

what palm provides in the PDK is either SDL or Open GL ES 1.1/2.0 which - is also available on iphone and android (in similar forms). but using these technologies, it was very easy to migrate the applications over. our games took us less than a day (5 hours or so), but - a good developer could port an existing Open GL based iphone application to the palm pre in less than a week. gameloft/EA have done this already, so yes, palm did make it that easy.

Posted by apalemick on Sat, 01 May 2010 4:25 pm EDT

Cool.

Thanks

Posted by kkhanmd on Sat, 01 May 2010 12:16 pm EDT

Maybe precentral should have a ticker on top/bottom telling how many current apps in USA (official catalog) and worldwide.

Posted by Stefan D. on Sat, 01 May 2010 1:00 pm EDT

@ kkhanmed

I would like such a ticker, but maybe it could be country specific? For example, there is a difference between the number of apps available in UK, France, Germany and Spain. By the way, today there are 970 apps available in the German App Catalog (Palm Pre with WebOS 1.4.1 @ O2 Germany).

Posted by Derek Kessler on Sat, 01 May 2010 9:15 pm EDT

http://www.precentral.net/app-gallery/app-catalog/

Posted by Mhunterjr on Sat, 01 May 2010 12:53 pm EDT

is tweetme a pdk app?

Posted by laze on Sat, 01 May 2010 1:39 pm EDT

Nope. Pure SDK app confirmed by developer on Twitter.

Posted by Mhunterjr on Sat, 01 May 2010 6:28 pm EDT

color me impressed. The UI is so unique and it's super responsive...

Posted by rlopin on Sat, 01 May 2010 12:56 pm EDT

You know how they say everyone has their own set of niche apps that appeals to them. The more apps in the long tail of the catalog, the higher the chance of each person finding that set of apps. Well, I own 3 squeeze server connected devices in my house. These devices stream my ripped CD's and internet radio stations to different sets of speakers on different floors/rooms. I needed to use each devices's remote control to switch music/stations.

Until now!

I was browsing the catalog for 'music' and discovered the SqueezeControl app. Now I can control the music on any of the 3 music devices, with full access to cover art right from my phone. I am running SqueezeCenter 7.4 on my ReadyNas NV+. What a beautiful thing it is!

WebOS is maturing rapidly, and its catalog is not too far from reaching critical mass. With HP's backing and the full PDK we should see an appxplosion within a few months.

Posted by laze on Sat, 01 May 2010 1:38 pm EDT

Bought TweetMe for

Posted by Cantaffordit on Sat, 01 May 2010 7:54 pm EDT

I hate to be "that guy" who is always noticing spelling and grammar errors...

...but are the spelling mistakes in the app descriptions because they are in the app catalog that way, or because they are mistakes in transcription?

It's just a pet peeve, but if money is changing hands (read: professional) by charging for ad space on the site, or charging for an app in the catalog... this starts to matter.

If someone can't spell, isn't it possible that there are typos in the app code that will cause problems? I'm just sayin'... it's a matter of credibility to me.

As Dad used to say to us all the time: "all your base are belong to us."

Posted by Derek Kessler on Sat, 01 May 2010 9:17 pm EDT

It depends on what kind of typo you're talking about and where.

If they're typos in this post, that's entirely on me.
If they're typos in the app's actual description, that's the developer.
If they're typos that look like a bunch of symbol gobbledeegook, that's a transcription error that we're still working to resolve.

Posted by Cantaffordit on Sat, 01 May 2010 9:40 pm EDT

from the descriptions above:

abiosis : chains, $0.99, by Mobile 1UP: Remove as many calls from the screen as you can by triggering chain reactions.

(the description in the app catalog says to remove BALLS, above it says CALLS)

Ancient Frog, $4.99, by Ancient Workshop: Move your from across the screen in this rock-climbing style puzzle.

(move your WHAT?)

Simple StopWatch, Free, by Suruat: Stop watch with landscape vide, highlight lap times, and bible verses.

(I don't know what a *vide* is...)

...I'm just sayin'

Posted by Derek Kessler on Sat, 01 May 2010 10:04 pm EDT

100% me. Seems I was real good with the typin's this morning.

Posted by FluffedMojo on Sun, 02 May 2010 5:37 pm EDT

TweetMe is by far the best Twitter App on webOS. I've been using Tweed since day one, but the last few days with TweetMe...I never wanna go back.