Nothing Rolls Out Neighborhood Widgets App, Brings Nokia’s Basic Snake Recreation to Its Smartphones

Nothing has launched a brand new app referred to as Nothing Neighborhood Widgets. Because the identify suggests, it options widgets equivalent to video games and instruments for Nothing smartphones co-developed by its passionate consumer base. One of many first arrivals on the app is a snake recreation which pays homage to the traditional snake expertise on Nokia telephones. It’s completely obtainable for Nothing smartphones such because the Nothing Cellphone 2a Plus and the Nothing Cellphone 2.

As per the British smartphone producer, the concept for the Snake widget was proposed by Nothing group member Rahul Janardhanan in January. As an alternative of creating it in-house, the model reached out to group developer Thomas Legendre who beforehand labored on Ear (internet) and the Simone Glyph Recreation.

The Snake recreation could be positioned on the house display screen like another widget. Just like the retro Nokia recreation, the objective is to eat the purple dots to make the snake develop longer in dimension whereas avoiding collision with itself. Every dot provides some extent and its pace will increase. The sport ends if the snake collides with its physique. Nonetheless, the controls are vastly completely different. As an alternative of utilizing the directional keypad buttons prefer it was required on Nokia telephones, customers can management the snake with swipe gestures.

Nothing says it goals to carry high quality widgets created by the group and bundle them with its Neighborhood Widgets app which is hosted on the Google Play Retailer. Nothing group members can share ideas with the corporate and its software program group will decide if it may be changed into a widget.

This transfer is a part of the corporate’s ambitions to work with its group. Notably, the model not too long ago unveiled the Nothing Cellphone 2a Plus Neighborhood Version, bringing a fruits of the Neighborhood Version Mission which started in March this yr. It has been co-developed with the Nothing group in any respect levels — from {hardware} design, and wallpaper design to packaging design, and advertising marketing campaign. The smartphone encompasses a glow-in-the-dark design with a inexperienced phosphorescent materials coating on the again.