Tracking Game High Scores with Pocket Highscores

January 13, 2003 - Spb Software House, the creator of such popular Pocket PC applications as GPRS Monitor and Pocket Plus, has entered into a joint venture with Pocketgamer.org to help game players around the world track their scores and compete with one another for top rankings.

«The Pocket PC is a powerful platform for gaming,» said Chief Technology Officer Vassili Philippov, «and we're convinced that Pocket PC gamers will enjoy their games even more knowing that their high scores will be uploaded for the rest of the community to see. Friendly competition is a healthy thing!»

Pocket Highscores, a free application available from the Spb Software House Web site, is what users will install on their desktop PCs to enable this process. Once installed, this application will retreive high scores from supported games installed on users' Pocket PCs and upload them directly to Spb partner site, PocketGamer.org. Once uploaded, the scores are displayed in descending order along with the name the user entered into the game scoring system. From the PocketGamer.org Web site, users can sort by game, username, and anywhere from five scores to all on record. The PocketGamer.org High Scores page also includes a leader board where current champions are listed.

Supported games include Spb Arkaball, Spb FreeCell, Spb Lines, Spb Minesweeper, Spb Pong, and Spb Xonix. Spb Software House will be releasing a free development library so game developers can quickly add this feature into their Pocket PC games. As more games support Pocket Highscores, the Pocket PC gaming community will be able to better compare scores from among their favorite games.

Pricing and Availability:

Pocket Highscores is a freeware and available for download from both PocketGear and Handango. For More information about Pocket Highscores please visit Spb Software House website. The Pocket Highscores library allowing developers to add Pocket Highscores support in their Pocket PC games is described at Pocket PC Developer Network.

About Spb Software House

Spb Software House is a software development company, specializing mainly in Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs. Founded in 1999, the company offers advanced software solutions for use in a wide range of applications.

About PocketGamer.org

PocketGamer.org is a site dedicated exclusively to the world of gaming on Pocket PCs, offering regular news updates, game reviews, extensive games listings, discussion forums and much, much more besides!

Pocket Highscores screenshots

More screenshots available at:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/pockethighscores/screenshots.html