My review of Legendary Heroes game on Samsung Galaxy Tab

It hasn't been even a week since I got my hands on the new and spanking Galaxy Tab which I won in a contest organised by Fingertec Worldwide.
I have a strong penchant for real time strategy games (RTS)  and the first thing I looked out inthe android market was games. Since the last two years I have been adicted to playing DotA (a very popular game played worldwide) , so I was in the lookout for a clone of it in the android market. I tried out many games but none were close to it and after digging in more in the market I found this awesome game named Legendary Heroes. It resembles the game quite closely.
Graphics are awesome and worth appreciating so is the game physics.  I have taken a few screenshots of the game :

When you hero comes back to the altar his HP gets recovered.



My hero finishing the enemy hero



Campaign loading screenshot detailing the campaign objectives



There a total of 32 campaigns.



Select your character.



Screenshot of the menu screen



Game loading screenshot.

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One can buy items for a character by using the coins earned in the game, the gems earned in the game or through currency(real money ). Gems are earned when all the quests in a campaign are completed. Keep clearing campaigns and level up your characters.  After completing level 6 of the campaign one can play quick matches from the main menu.

This game is available on Google Play at :  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.maya.legendaryheroes (* Best thing is that this is free *)

* The app on the market is just an installer. 57 mb of content would be downloaded from internet first to play the game.

I am looking forward to its multiplayer support to play this along with my friends. Happy gaming to all till then !

Starting With Android Application Development - Installing IDE and Plugin

As a prelude to my summer training I made use of the Holi holidays(actually they were mass bunks) to get started on Android Application Development on my own.
So if you too want to learn how to go on Android Application development keep following me.

First of all you need to know Java, thats a pre requisite. I  don't know much about it but I will learn it on my way through.
So we need an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to write codes and to execute them.
You can use either Eclipse or Netbeans. I used Netbeans , so my next steps would be with Netbeans only.

You can download Netbeans from here :http://netbeans.org/downloads/ (select the one which supports most technologies)
Eclipse from here :  http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ (Eclipse IDE for Java Developers)

**Important : When you create your Netbeans project folder make sure you don't keep the path to somewhere like  My documents/Netbeansprojects instead keep it in the root  like C:/Netbeansprojects because when you would run or build the program you may get an error which would be due to inclusion of 'space' between words in the path.

After you have successfully downloaded the IDE, we would include the Android plugin.
For Net Beans we need the plugin named NbAndroid.
Open Netbeans . Go to Tools then select Plugin
In the settings tab select add .
In the update centre customizer pop enter name as nbandroid and URL as http://kenai.com/downloads/nbandroid/updates.xml


Detailed installation process could be found in http://kenai.com/projects/nbandroid/pages/Install

So we are done with installing the IDE and plugin and in the next post we will continue installing the platform and sdk.