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Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Games

By: Mark Bishop

In past few years, mobile games have gained a lot of popularity among both consumers and developers. The popular interests in mobile phone games, from the business end, arise from the huge potential market and the frustration of the high barrier of entry in the conventional PC game market. Entertainment and games are leading applications driving the growth of the mobile data market. Perhaps the biggest reason for these numbers lies in the diversity of its users and the appeal to the mass market.

Most mobile gamers play at home several times a day even though many of them already own dedicated game consoles. They play mobile phone games while they are watching TV, SMSing, or otherwise multitasking. Very young kids can now have access to mobile phone game downloads through family plans for wireless services. Mobile games are becoming a way of life for an entire generation of consumers.

For mobile game developers, one of the most important choices is to make at the beginning of the development process is on which mobile software platforms this game should run. Although developers have constantly complained about the limitations of the mobile phone games hardware and software environment, it is somewhat surprising to see that few of them actually choose the more powerful mobile platforms, such as Symbian C++, Visual C to develop their mobile phone game downloads. Most developers focus on the relatively constrained Java 2 Platform. The future is bright for mobile games, especially the latest java games.

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