CASE STUDY Outlook Entertainment, United States of America

Outlook Entertainment, located in New Jersey - USA, focuses on marketing and development of entertainment titles for mobile entertainment platforms such as GameBoy, GameBoy Advanced and PalmOS.

MobileWizardry provided it's music/sound effect engine for integration into the official "Puzzle Bubble" for PalmOS game; bringing it alive with the original arcade sound and music. The library includes support for: MIDI music ADPCM samples The music engine is optimized for devices with audio streaming capabilities or a Yamaha audio chip. Integration into existing applications is seamless, with minimal effect on the overall performance of the application. Puzzle Bubble V2, will be available from Outlook Entertainment in late 2003.

The music engine implements general MIDI playback, with true voice implementation (GM soundset) with 16 channel polophony and 16 part multi timbral. The audio stream is synthesized in real time using native ARM code on Palm OS5 devices.

Outlook Entertainment provided the necessary audio files for the game; which MobileWizardry processed and converted into a demonstration application, showing implementation/integration into an existing project. Outlook Entertainment were able to easily link source code and resources and make simple API calls where necessary.

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