Samsung has announced the winner of its Bada Developer Day UK Challenge, a "futuristic" flying game for mobile phones. The Korean chaebol wanted developers to come up with an idea for an application, programming of course on the Bada platform. The competition, which carried a prize of £100,000, was won by Marc Fontin for his …

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Wednesday 4th April 2012 14:49 GMT Miek

"TurboFlyHD app, which allows users to fly around a virtual race track in a specially designed aircraft" -- sounds like Wipeout HD

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1. Wednesday 4th April 2012 14:54 GMT Citizen Kaned
  
  or that one on the SNES?
  
  i agree it doesnt sound very original to me!
  
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  1. Thursday 5th April 2012 10:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: Kaned
    
    It's the perfect entry for the Korean juggernaut that can only copy, not innovate!
    
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2. Thursday 5th April 2012 10:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Sounds like Wipeout HD
  
  CORRECT!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmvmYgpO3IE
  
  Shameless rip-off.
  
  Hang on, that video is of a game called Turbo Fly 3D (Not Turbo Fly HD) and that video was uploaded in Dec 2010.
  
  HUH????
  
  Oh....
  
  Ah.....
  
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Wednesday 4th April 2012 15:32 GMT Bassey

Original or not, he's £100K up - well done that man!

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Wednesday 4th April 2012 17:10 GMT Greg D

it looks like Wipeout HD too!

ok so the ships are different, but the demo vid i saw looks exactly like a worse version of wipeout.

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Wednesday 4th April 2012 23:23 GMT seczine.com

Nice work fella!

as title....

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Thursday 5th April 2012 18:03 GMT Anonymous C0ward

How big is Bada IRL?

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