Cricket Revolution – Made in Pakistan

Posted by BA on Oct 15, 2009 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

Pakistan’s first complete 3D Cricket game

Mindstorm Studios‘s Babar Ahmad caused several hundred audience’s jaws to drop last night at P@SHA’s ICT awards. He showcased a video demo of “Cricket Revolution“, a great looking game that they’ve been working on for quite some time now. But the output was worth the wait.

The game is neat, simple to play, easy controls, lots of options, multi player/network modes, social/viral aspect and last but not least, its comprehensively made in Pakistan. I’m so proud to see such great work being done in Lahore. And for obvious reasons, the game did a clean sweep at the awards too.

Instead of making you read a lot, I’ll show you a few videos here. I simply went to their website and downloaded the demo. The demo does not contain the teams, stadiums, matches or network mode and for obvious reasons, it’s only practice mode. You can do both batting and bowling practice and in both cases, the game feels better than any other Cricket game I’ve played so far. Yes I have played all the Electronic Arts titles over past decade and I started from the good old Allan Border’s DOS based cricket.

The game is scheduled to be released on October 31st and is already available for pre-order at http://store.steampowered.com/app/25500/ and the pre-order price is $18. So hurry up, as the retail price of the game will be somewhere between $20 and $25.

Here are a few practice videos that I recorded right during this demo run of the game.

Demo Startup and Main Menu

Batting Practice

Bowling Practice

And finally in the end, this is the video Babar played at the end of his presentation that is absolutely marvelous. Enjoy!

Blackberry developers, its your chance to win a $100,000 prize

Posted by BA on Jul 18, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Blackberry partner fund is running a contest named Blackberry Developer Challenge. This challenge is looking for creative BlackBerry application developers who have written applications for BlackBerry and upload them to the newly launched BlackBerry app-world.


This will serve a dual purpose for RIM. A lot of developers will jump into BlackBerry application development and will provide their application for the contest. Either the app wins or not, the application will add to the app-world catalog and will be available for purchase to BlackBerry users. Moreover, the app-developers will not only get a chance to win the $100,000 prize money, they’ll also start selling their app and if they see good profits, they’ll eventually end up developing more applications for the platform. That creates a win-win situation for RIM, for BlackBerry users as well.