Briefly back at the PC after participating in an interesting writers' workshop yesterday. In newsletters found story about the founding of the "Mobile Games Interoperability Forum (MGI-Forum)" by key players Siemens, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia. There is a press release here. The initiative is mostly about providing a interoperabilityspecification for network-based servers, so players can play across various platforms. I'm really interested in seing what will happen with the mobile games development. It seems obvious that good games of this kind must combine multi-user and community elements with location based activities and why should the setting not be an imaginary shared world? I'm sure my research will also be able to provide insight into this area - or that I can learn from what games are developped for this medium.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 14:47