Aniway, a cool Flash Lite gaming company from Finland started a summary in their blog, of Aniway’s history, how they are viewing FL game market (and a bit about the future as well).
It starts with first Part 1: Developers view on mobile Flash Lite game market.
I just read it and waiting it to be continued!
Thanks for this guys, its very interesting story of Aniway success and evolution of Flash Lite market.
The International Mobile Gaming Awards, the largest competition for talented mobile game developers worldwide, sees improvements in mobile games development worldwide.
SAN FRANCISCO October 23. The Judges from the International Mobile Games Awards (IMGA) have shortlisted the 25 titles from 224 game developers across 42 countries who are competing to be the most innovative unpublished game of 2007.
The IMGA is the leading annual competition for mobile games which rewards the most talented games designers and companies for innovation in design and technology. This is an industry led initiative sponsored by major players in the industry including Adobe Movida, Nokia (main sponsors) and AMD, NVIDIA and Qualcomm. The preliminary judging process was completed in Marseille in the Belle de Mai. The results of these deliberations are announced today with a shortlist of 25 games in 5 different categories:
Excellence in Gameplay
Excellence in Connectivity
Excellence in 3D
Best IP-based game
Best Casual Game (developed in Flash, Java, etc.)
Each of the 392 games were unpublished titles at time of submission and came from all across the globe. 45% of these entries came from Europeans, 26% came from Asia, 17% from North America and 12% from the rest of the world. The selection of the nominees is the result of two judging rounds. On the 3rd of October 20 judges based in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, the USA, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK have reviewed the entries. Based on their scores, the IMGA staff has determined a top 100. On the 5th of October 10 jury members have gathered in Marseille, France to review the top 100 and to determine which games are to be shortlisted for the IMGA 2007. The final Judging process will take place in February and requires the nominees to supply fully playable versions of their games by 28th January.
“The quality of this year’s submission was extremely high. We are pleased to see that the studios have invested more time in presenting their games better. The judges have had a very difficult task this year to select the nominees out of such a wealth of quality games. We hope that publishers and operators will pick these games up so they will reach the consumers, because we are convinced that consumers deserve the quality and game play that we discovered in this year’s edition.” Says Maarten Noyons, founder and managing director of the IMGA.
The full shortlist of 25 nominees can be reviewed on www.imgawards.com and on Monday 22nd of October the public will be given the opportunity to vote for their favorite game. This special award will be given at the final award ceremony in February. Further details of the IMGA Ceremony in February will be released separately.
CONTACT:
The International Mobile Gaming Awards
PR and Marketing
Jessica Rei
tel: +33 491315217
All nominated games can be reviewed at www.imgawards.com/2007_nominees.php
Everybody is invited to register and vote for its favorite game !
Probably it’s Flash Lite contest season;
SWX contest by Aral;
Create any cool experiment, site, application, and/or mashup that uses SWX RPC, either with SWX PHP or without writing any server-side code at all by using the SWX APIs on the Public SWX Gateway. You can choose to use the SWX ActionScript Library (recommended) or go native with loadMovie()!
All entries must play back in the Flash Player (SWX RPC is supported on Flash Player 6 and above, and Flash Lite 2.x). You cannot use SWX RPC with ActionScript 3/Flash 9/Flex 2 projects at the moment (a version for AVM2 is in the works.)
Mobile Contest in association with Playoo;
Are you a Flash games developer? Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, hobbyist or professional, you can put your Flash Lite games in front of a big audience, with the chance to build a following. Start now by entering the launch contest, and you can also win significant prizes.
All About N-Gage has pretty interesting glance of current state of Nokia N-Gage, after revelation of N81, new services and games.
The whole article is here.
“Selatra, the global distributor of mobile Java games, announced today the availability of the three exclusive new games from its Flashlite catalogue.”
“Meteors - a shoot-em-up space game, Reversi (also known as Othello) the instantly recognisable puzzle game and Invasion, a classic style alien shooter game.”
Read complete press release from here.
This is is interesting: Orange and Mobitween signed the agreement some time ago for distributing content of Mobitween and now:
(Via Biskero)
“last week, Orange endorsed Mobigamz as the first European Flash Lite Consumer game portal. You can have an idea of the Actual Orange Live Launch”
Great work, all the people in Mobitween, this is a big thing!
Mark Ollila, co-founder of Telco Games and Nokia’s Director of Technology & Strategy for Games and Multimedia, answers 5 questions of Digital Media Wire on mobile games. Here is the full interview.
Dr. Mark Ollila, Nokia’s Director of Technology & Strategy for Games and Multimedia sat down with DMW for five questions about the mobile games space. As one of the world leaders in mobile technology with its N-series products, Nokia is poised to be among the major influencers of the space over the next several years. We discussed some of the things going well in mobile gaming, and some of the challenges that remain.
Desktop tower is defended 15 million times since it’s first release in March.
Desktop Tower Defense has been quite addictive for me too. It’s unavoidable. Also amazing that an almost non-budget game has attracted 15 million people in such short time. It also lead his creator Paul Preece to start up his own company and make it to Wall Street Journal Online pages.
Here is the link to Desktop Tower Defense. But I highly encourage you NOT to click it. No responsibility accepted for any time loss and addiction caused :)
Next Augnofi meeting will take place on 31st May. We arranged the event together with ELVI Peli (Game) Connection and bringing many companies, investors and financiers together. I will be pitching about Flash Lite and mobile trends during the event to give an idea about Flash Lite and recent mobile trends. I hope to raise the interest of people to Flash Lite and help them to see the potential. I am also planning to show Flash Lite on Wii, before we start tennis tournament :) I saw that Richard has a good piece of Flash Lite game for Wii, hope it will work fine there. Please leave me a note, if you have other cool ideas for that.
Check out our agenda;
18:30 - Presentation of Jukka Kelmettila from Oulu Innovation
19:00 - Presentation : Flash Lite and mobile trends by Ugur Kaner
19:45 - Company profile : Kuneri Ltd.
20:00 - Fun on Wii : Game tournament
22:00 - Disconnect
Miikka from Aniway announced the launch of their latest project; Lordi Flash Lite mobile magazine and game!
It is our pleasure to inform that the Lordi Flash Lite mobile magazine and game have been launched today, alongside with the new Lordi Flash site (that we participated in making as well). The mobile application is free (included in the .swf file are the mobile magazine and the Lordi game). We are supporting Nokia mobile devices that come with a preinstalled Flash Lite 1.1. or 2.x (starting with 34 phone models).
We are very proud of Aniway’s work and efforts, contributing to Flash Lite world from up north with us. Great job guys!
