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The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an online eSeminar on November 19th at 12 PM EST (check your local time), Playyoo members - Chris Pelly, David Mantripp, and Thomas Burg - will all be discussing the Playyoo gaming platform, Flash Lite, details on the Playyoo Games Contest, and more. You can join the Boston Adobe Mobile and Device User Group to participate in the eSeminar and be part of the User Group.

Not a member of the Boston UG or in the Boston area? Not to worry. We’ll be making the eSeminar available to all. Stay tuned for more details.

Later that evening, the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices UG will be holding a meeting at 7 pm at the Asgard Pub in Cambridge to discuss the 2007 Flash Lite Game Contest and the Playyoo Games Contest. According to Alessandro Pace, leader of the Americas regional section for the 2007 Flash Lite Game Contest, anyone in the Boston area is welcome - and cool gadgets will be given away. Check out Alessandro’s post for more details.

We’re now in week two of the Playyoo Game Contest, and if $25,000 wasn’t enough to generate some excitement with Flash developers, we’ve got a second contest going — this time with the Flash Lite User Groups. It’s called the 2007 Flash Lite Game Contest. We’re offering an additional $15,000 in cash prizes and our friends at Adobe and O’Reilly are chipping in other great prizes (Adobe software, anyone?) exclusively to members of regional Flash Lite User Groups.

If you were at Adobe Max in Chicago last week, you may have heard Giorgio Natili announce the contest in the Mobile Device UG session, and he’ll be talking about it again in Barcelona on Oct 17.

So how does it work? As a member of a Flash Lite User Group, you can specify your UG regional section (Americas, Europe and Africa, Asia Pacific) when you create an account at Playyoo. Your games will automatically be entered in the Playyoo Game Contest, as well as submitted for consideration in your regional section. So with little to no extra work on your part, you’ve got a whole other way to win.

Each regional section will be run by a contest leader selected from the regional Flash User Groups and will maintain a page on the 2007 Flash Lite Game Contest website, www.mobilecontest.org.

The winners of the regional sections of the 2007 Flash Lite Game Contest will be selected by a panel of judges comprised of representatives from Playyoo and Adobe, as well as leading Flash Lite game developers worldwide. So while the judging of the Playyoo Games Contest is strictly democratic, the UG contest will be judged by experts based on innovation in concept, game-play graphics, and the technical merits of the game – like memory optimization and loading times.

The prizes for each of the 3 regional sections of the 2007 Flash Lite Game Contest are:

• 1st prize: A prize of YOUR choice valued up to $5,000 USD
• 2nd prize: Adobe software licenses
• 3rd prize: O’Reilly books

And stay tuned in, as we’ll be announcing additional prizes as time goes on. As for the other nuts and bolts: games must be uploaded to the Playyoo website before 23:59 CET February 15, 2008 to be eligible for consideration, and you can submit as many games as you wish.

Check out www.mobilecontest.org for more details on the rules and regulations for theUG contest.