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Hey guys and gals, Sorry about the lack of updates been busy at working developing an iphone application in partnership with Cool Earth.

And I am proud to share Cool Tree with you all, developed in-house at Sync Studios we have designed and developed a pretty cool iPhone application.

Cool Tree is a real-time game, where you have to look after your tree and keep it safe while it grows big and strong. Over the course of a week your tree will grow from a tiny sapling to an impressive 30 meter tree.

Right now the PR’esk bit is done this was a super fun project to work on, and it just goes to show, you can write a pretty cool application what works on the iPhone and have no knowledge of Objective-C. Yes thats right Cool Tree is written entirely in Java-Script using the amazing jQuery library and PhoneGap to allow the magic to happen.

And remember buying the app saves a real tree in the rain forest

I have to say I am really impressed by what is possible using this development environment, to write a pretty simple business class application would possibly take only a week or so to complete. And the implications for browser games is pretty significant. In the vast majority of games you need to be on a PC/Mac and using a browser to respond to the changing game state. But by adding an iPhone client allows your user base interact with the game while miles away from a computer.
I really do think this kind of portable interface if implemented correctly would vastly improve the PBBG landscape.