‹ Why John Carmack Believes in Mobile Games •
The urge to play is built into our DNA. Humans are by nature restless, always seeking something to occupy their attention. Since practically everybody carries a mobile phone nowadays (we’re talking 3.2 billion mobile subscribers by 2011), the phone is the obvious distraction of choice when we’re looking to fill a few moments waiting for a friend at the café or the next train. But most mobile users have yet to take advantage of games on their phones - mainly because, to date, there has been a lack of easily accessible, casual games to satisfy this “quick fix.”
Flash game developers have a huge opportunity here. Mobile Flash - or Flash Lite - games do not need to be anywhere near as complex as desktop games, in fact often the very simplest are the most powerful. Think of Bejeweled, Skipping Stone, Diner Dash, Lumines. And Flash Lite is ideally suited to rapid production of simple games. At the same time, as John Carmack pointed out to us (see Why John Carmack believes in mobile games), the mobile platform is a great environment for trying out new ideas and concepts which one day might evolve into more sophisticated desktop productions.Flash Lite development tools are included in Flash 8 Pro and Flash CS3. Flash CS3 also brings the powerful new Device Central tool, which helps remove a lot of the pain of testing mobile games. Flash Lite relies on earlier, simpler versions of Actionscript, and has been optimised to enable you to quickly develop compelling mobile games.
Playyoo is the only Flash games site solely dedicated to mobile casual games. Of course, there are other great sites out there focusing on Flash games, some of which are now starting to extend into the mobile world. But here at Playyoo, we started from the ground up with a focus on mobile, and mobile only - and we’ve got a great set of features coming up which will help both developers and players get the most out of mobile gaming with Flash Lite. (Why just Flash Lite? While Java has a place in mobile games development, we’re convinced that as far as casual games are concerned, Flash Lite is an incomparable tool).
When you deliver your game to Playyoo, it will instantly become integrated in a meta-gaming system built around a rich set of social networking tools. You will reach a worldwide audience, enhance your reputation as a developer and get to see the reaction of our player community that’s made up of people of all kinds of cultures, backgrounds and abilities.Playyoo members will have access to features which overcome the common issues with the mobile game delivery process, as well as desktop and mobile interfaces that give individuals quick access to the type of games they like. All you need to do is turn your game concept into Flash Lite code.
Playyoo is well funded with an ambitious team driving it forward, and will provide you with an ideal channel to show off your skills as a Flash developer in the mobile market - without having to deal with mobile operators or device manufacturers.Oh, and one more thing: get started now, and you could end up $10,000 richer!
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July 9, 2008 at 10:37 am
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300 is paltry for a mobile flash game. Its not enough to encourage continued development from flash developers. If playoo offered a share i.e. customer buys game developer gets 1%-10%. Then you would find yourselves in a position where you have a hard time choosing games.
July 24, 2008 at 8:55 am
David Mantripp
Yes,but then we would be a game download site, like any other.
You’re assuming that we’d find a lot of people to pay for games. We don’t believe this is the case. A major reason for the lack of mainstream success in the mobile games industry is that consumers don’t want to pay. Why ? Because the type of person who is happy to pay for a game is generally more likely to play on a console or PC, and is really not at all interested in a 30 second casual game. Especially not paying for it.
The idea of the €300 fee is to stimulate the Playyoo Developer Program so that we can start to build a market, where developers can compete for serious contracts. Note, we are NOT buying these games. They remain the property of the developers.
Playyoo is about user generated content, which is not always an easy concept to grasp in the context of games. But we are also trying to find ways to help developers find their own market.
March 31, 2010 at 7:23 am
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