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CCP Games aims to extend EVE Online to iPhone and mobile phones

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http://www.massively.com/2008/12/30/ccp-games-aims-to-extend-eve-online-to-iphone-and-mobile-phones/

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CCP Games aims to extend EVE Online to iPhone and mobile phones

by James Egan Dec 30th 2008 at 8:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, News items
Nathan 'Oveur' Richardsson, Executive Producer for CCP Games, gave a 'state of the game' address last month about EVE Online, and hinted at some of the ways he'd like to see EVE evolve. Namely, how the game might expand by leveraging the EVE API. It looks like CCP is taking the next step in making this happen, from the announcement an EVE player came across -- one that suggests mobile and iPhone applications for EVE Online may be coming.

Reykjavik University and MIT maintain cooperation through the MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), which is essentially a way to tap the expertise of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for specific projects. An announcement on the ILP site states that CCP Games is interested in seeing what MIT students can come up with in terms of EVE mobile and iPhone applications that make use of EVE Online's API.

Here's the gist of that announcement:

"CCP is interested in developing Mobile applications which interact with EVE through the EVE API (see http://myeve.eve-online.com/api/doc/). We are eager to hear what ideas MIT students might come up with - here are a few ideas:

    * Skill Trainer or Ship Outfitter (see EVEMon http://evemon.battleclinic.com/)

    * POS Calculator (see http://www.eve-meep.com/downloads/plugins/pos-fuel-calculator/)

    * Route planner (see http://www.battleclinic.com/eve_online/route_finder.php)

    * Personal or Corp Wallet or Transactions viewers

    * EVE Mail (not possible with the current API)

CCP is revising the EVE API in regards to what data can be accessed and manipulated. We are open to the idea of extending the API to benefit the Mobile application's need in mind."

While such mobile apps (from CCP) are still far from being a reality, it's interesting to note that this is a potential direction that the developers would like to take. In the meantime, a few enterprising players have already written their own iPhone apps, which might be of interest to EVE players who like to keep up with the game while on the go:

iPhone

    * Capsuleer -- developed in part by by EVE blogger 'Roc Wieler'.

    * EVE Tracker -- which Massively has mentioned in the past.

    * iClone

    * EViE


Mobile (non-iPhone)

    * EVE Mobile Skill Planner


[Via Xiliath]


The linked page has links to those programs and apps.  I am especially pleased to see our own Battleclinic listed in there more than once.  :D

Comments

  • Justicar
    January 02, 2009, 06:17:04 pm

    EViE?  I hope that isn't going to be like playing Eve on an iphone... it'll just make the isk farming botters worse!
  • svzurich
    January 03, 2009, 06:17:09 am

    These programs so far are designed to monitor ala EveMon or plan ala Eve-Meep.  No gameplay or skillchanging so far.
  • Swift Voyager
    January 06, 2009, 06:53:01 am

    The headline is a bit sensational, but there's certainly things that would work on a mobile phone.
     
    The things that come to mind first for me are reminders and information:
     
    -skills,
    -POS fuel,
    -research/manufacturing jobs completed,
    -war decs declared/began/ended,
    -insurance on ships expired,
    -contracts accepted/completed,
    -and status on open market buy/sell orders.
     
    That should all be easy with proper API support, and it's all read-only, so security isn't a problem.
  • [MONS] Lodan
    October 23, 2009, 01:15:36 am

    I had a sort of 'evemon' on my BB Storm some time ago, it was good for reminders and all that.

    Sounds cool.
  • etarena
    October 23, 2009, 10:39:13 am

    There is a client for blackberry for basic character watching.

    I work for BlackBerry, and I was thinking of making a new java client that would do evertything you would need from a character perspective based on current apis... However I'm lazy and I need to know

    A) how many people will use it
    B) what do you want
    C) what blackberry you have and what version software
    D) will you pay for it in isk :p
  • Combatents
    January 25, 2010, 11:06:27 am

    Dont they already have skill monitoring apps for the iphone/itouch? pretty sure its called capsuleer and eve tracker.
  • MrCue
    January 25, 2010, 11:17:09 am

    Capsuleer isn't an official CCP application.
  • GORT-2.0
    March 04, 2010, 09:11:30 am

    That is so awesome! I can't wait.

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