The company has been eagerly awaiting completion of a key set of software plugins that enable much wider phone compatibility and localised content.

According to the company, its Talaris engineTM has come of age and is now capable of benefiting businesses that do not normally operate in the mobile game industry.  “A game sprat to catch a business mackerel” is the term coined by David Hothersall, creative director of Black Bull Studios.  “We are seeing a change in the market where some businesses outside mobile gaming view a smartphone game as a new means of getting upside sales and exposure” says Hothersall.  “Low design cost and rapid deployment using Talaris gives enlightened marketing departments a new promotion tool”.

Bristling with innovative features a salesperson will thrive upon, Talaris aims to lead the way in new generation smartphone gaming technology.  Talaris is written in a native language called C++ which makes it straightforward to adapt applications for virtually any smartphone.  Even PC variants can be produced with Black Bull Studios being able to demonstrate these on desktop emulators for its most recent games.

Black Bull’s recently introduced plugins give the engine significant flexibility so that game skews, re-skins or brand introduction should be quick and easy to implement.  Integration time with a client’s game script is expected to be minimised too, meaning that design and development costs are dramatically reduced.  Added to that, the unparalleled smoothness and 3D rendering with unique features such as ‘screen flip’ make Talaris an ideal platform for cost effective developments or functional uplifts from successful Java games.

So why use Talaris?  Well put simply, it claims to be an extremely efficient set of software modules that have been built to support a long term product strategy.  This strategy in 2006, was initially aimed at Symbian S60 smartphones but is now embracing much wider compatibility including phones that use UIQ and Microsoft mobile operating systems.  In a rapidly emerging smartphone market, the benefit and risk to an unfamiliar client requiring a product using proven technology should be easy to quantify and justify an investment.

Black Bull Studios is pleased to provide further technical information to companies that express an interest in wishing to make use of Talaris and is pleased to make cost benefit assessments of joint opportunities.