Innovate For Mobile Games To Stand Strong

Mobile gaming has been compared to the early years of PC gaming…”It is reminiscent of the early 90s, when PC gaming was about to break. For years, games publishers paraded a string of unremarkable titles to disinterested journalists. Then Doom happened, and the world changed forever.” It got a lot more gory, for a start… First, there are some problems to overcome, including the fragmentation of handset platforms, which is exacerbated by the fact that the development time of games is long enough that a handset may become obselete before the game is finished.

LemmingsBut this slipped by almost unnoticed: “iFone has just released Lemmings, developed by 8-Bit Games”. I’m sure everyone who knows what an Amiga is remembers the game, and the little “OH NO!” the critters gave out just before they blew up…Fantastic game…according to 8-bit business development director Dave Vout the “killer app” of mobile gaming will be “something that uses GPRS and the camera and person- to-person communication to its fullest.” (from Textually.org)

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