Sometimes the use (or misuse) of the word "interactive" really triggers the worst side in me. I came across this article in BBC NEWS, Technology: Mobile games to 'go interactive' and was really annoyed (ok, so it's from April, but they still link to it upfront). Huh - what's going on here? If you read the article, nothing much new in it, basically big guy from Electronic Arts is saying that you should design social games or "care-games" for the mobile phone instead of nice graphics games. Perhaps it is because I have been involved in MIL for some time now, perhaps it is because I already know someone working on a tamagotchi concept (mentioned in the article), but it just seems pretty self-evident what is stated there. I like the BBC Technology pages a lot, but wonder why they printed this article...and why don't they talk about game concepts like using a mobile camera phone for a "bat" and playing virtual ping pong that way? This game was showcased at a recent exhibition NEXT 05 - thinking about mobile phones as "physical objects" in the gameplay is another much more fruitful way of thinking about mobile games, that isn't mentioned at all in the article.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 10:53