mobile game - video game

A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA or handheld computer.

Issues

Game designers interested in making games have been told that the industry is facing stagnation. In Europe, average price has fallen but costs to games developers and publishers are rising. some mobile networks are planning to take a greater share of game revenue.

A buzz phrase is one button gameplay. This is the idea being that good games can be created that only require the player to use a single button.

limits of mobile games
Mobile games are small in scope and often rely on gameplay over flashy graphics, due to a lack of processing power of client devices. One trouble for developers and publishers of games is describing a game in detail that it gives a customer enough information to make a purchasing decision. Currently, Mobile Games are mainly sold through Network Carriers / Operators portals and this means there are only a few lines of text and perhaps a screenshot of the game to excite the customer. Two strategies are followed by developers and publishers to combat this lack of purchasing information, firstly there is a reliance on powerful brands and licences that impart a suggestion of quality to the game, secondly there is the use of well known and established play patterns such as Tetris, Space Invaders or Poker.

Recent innovations in mobile games include Singleplayer, Multiplayer and 3D graphics. Virtual love games belong to both singleplayer and multiplayer games. Multiplayer games are quickly finding an audience, as developers take advantage of the ability to play against other people, an extension of the mobile phone's connectivity.

Searching mobile games
It is hard to determine what games are available for a specific handset. Even if a name of a game is known, users can spend hours finding where it is being sold in their nation by their mobile operator. Some websites have been set up to aid this, by game enthusiast types.
Since the start of i-Mode in February 1999, the global development of mobile games has been pioneered and is driven by i-Mode games.

Location based games
Games played on a mobile device using localization technology like GPS are called location based games. These are played on mobile hardware but also integrate the player's position into the game concept. In other words: while it does not matter for a normal mobile game where exactly you are the player's coordinate and movement are main elements in a Location game. The most famous example is the treasure hunt game Geocaching played on a mobile device with integrated or external GPS receiver. External GPS receivers are typically connected via Bluetooth. More and more mobile phones with integrated GPS.

GPRS multiplayer game
GPRS connection is common on GSM mobile phones to be used to share data globally. Developers connect a mass number of mobile games with a single server and share data.
3G and WiFi
3G and WiFi are just emerging in most of the nations, and has a good speed which is good for gaming.

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