5/09/2013
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With much discussion on the negative influence of smartphones on social life, the recent report conducted in the UK reveals the opposite. In attempts to find out the reasons for vandalism rates falling, the study unveiled a strong negative correlation between smartphone sales and sabotage rates. Often accused for killing conversations, isolating the young people from the society and causing addiction, smartphones, with all their glory, do have influences the social life positively as well.
A report at BBC reads:
“Vandalism began to fall sharply in 2006/07 - about the same time as smartphone sales began to take off in the UK.”
With teenagers sending 200 texts or instant messages in a week (almost four times as many as five years earlier), less time is left for boredom. And the boredom itself is strongly and positively correlated with vandalism rates.
Development of video gaming industry on smartphones has also played an important role in changing lifestyles - the average 11- to 14-year-old spends 13 hours a week playing computer games, increasingly on their smartphones, GameTrak figures show. If true, this would not leave a great deal of time for hanging out on a bus stop. With a lot of things to keep them occupied, teenagers, who represent a major percentage of vandals, don’t need to be bored any more.
On the other hand, graffiti is no longer the only means love or hate-filled teenagers had to use to express their feelings and let the world know about their passions. With Twitter and Facebook in their smartphones, people see vandalism as an increasingly pointless activity. No one would ever write her opinion on a classroom wall, when there’s a Facebook wall for expressing what’s on one’s mind, and once posted, no one is able to remove it.
To sum up, the decrease in vandalism is likely due to a number of causes, but the combination of cheap smartphones, with great games, social networking and instant messaging seems to be the strongest one preventing their owners from ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable.
1/05/2013
Why make yet another AIR HOCKEY? Well, there are several reasons why we thought we would make the AIR HOCKEY.
First, our implementation sports considerably better graphics (and by now this not our subjective opinion as most of the players find our graphics way better than that of the competition).
Second, the game play of our AIR HOCKEY is smoother. Thanks to our EuclidX XNA Game Engine, the game is super smooth, period.
Third, we use an intelligent vibration feedback. Unlike other air hockey games there, our vibration is smart enough to conserve your phone's battery.
Fourth, our AI is more human-like. In other words, while the hard mode plays really well and it's not that difficult to defeat it, you still have a chance to do so. The movement of our AI paddle is comparable to that of a human.
The last, but not the least, our AIR HOCKEY sports probably the best physics you can see in an air hockey game. Yes, we use Farseer physics engine like many other games out there. However, what makes our AIR HOCKEY's physics special is the physics model used in the game.
Well, you have just to play our AIR HOCKEY to see that the above points are all true! You are cordially invited to download the game and play it right away. Yes, it's free and always will be!
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Happpy Holidays!
12/01/2012
We would like to thank all Crystalines players for warm acceptance of the game. Your comments and feedback is extremely important and we value every single review or rating of the game.
Have not played Crystalines yet? No problem. It's the best time to play it now. Click here to download Crystalines from the Windows Phone store.
Like Crystalines? How about jazzing your desktop with Crystalines wallpapers? You can download wallpapers for your smartphone, tablet or PC from the Crystalines web page at http://www.avantmotion.com/Games/Crystalines.
3/09/2012
Glad you asked. Avantmotion Ltd is a privately held software development and online media company founded in the UK in 2011. We are focused on developing innovative applications and games for mobile platforms (Windows Phone, iOS, Android) as well as for desktops. We also offer a full range of custom development services from web applications, to mobile-applications and games to e-commerce applications. Our online media division operates a number of successful blogs.
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