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Deshi games for new Nokia

Local software JV develops games for the world leader

MusTAK HossAiN and NAFiD IMRAN AHMED
When millions of people will be using a new Nokia cellphone this Christmas, they may have no idea that the exciting new game they can play on it has been developed by a Bangladeshi firm.
Fighting in the highly competitive market of gaming and programming, Bangladeshi software firm Visual Magic Corporation Limited
(VMCL) has won the job to develop four games for Nokia, the world's number one handset maker.
"We have already completed the games and sent them to Nokia for testing," said Ahmedul Islam, general manager of VMCL.
"We were selected by a Japanese outsourcing company to develop the games for Nokia," he said.
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Visual Magic has prepared software for 'Engaged Device', a new type of cellphone sets to be launched by Nokia in Europe and Japan this Christmas.
The set aims to attract children to cellphone-based games and make Nokia popular, Ahmedul said.
The games have been developed in C++ and Visual C++ languages. It can also be played in Windows 2000 environment.
"Four local programmers developed the game in four months. They did not have any previous experience in game development," he said
The game could be played alone or by four persons simultaneously by using 'blue tooth' technology.
The game will be available in English, French, German, Portuguese, Danish and Spanish.
Ahmedul however did not disclose how big the deal is in terms of money and only said "it is a good deal".
The VMCL is a joint venture with a leading Japanese information communications company to produce high quality games, gaming software and computer graphics for international market mainly Japan.
Japan is the leading cellphone gaming software producing country.
Japanese companies are now outsourcing software development jobs due to its shortage of skilled IT programmers and high cost.