The mobile games market is a treasure chest, and with 49.9 percent growth in 2007 alone and revenue expected to rise to $6.3 billion in 2011 from $3.9 billion that year, everyone is looking for the map. Like the road to any treasure, however, there are potential pitfalls along the way. And in those pitfalls, Israeli startup Mo’Minis sees an opportunity.

It takes very advanced programming skills to develop even a simple mobile game. Moreover, enabling an application to run on the hundreds of available handset models is an endeavor fraught with technological barriers. The investment of time and resources needed to overcome these pitfalls keeps many individual mobile game developers from ever entering the market.

Help is on the way. Mo’Minis, which was launched back in January 2008 and has raised $400,000 in funding from a private group of investors, plans to offer a free end-to-end solution for both skilled and amateur game developers. Continue »