The 6th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards have opened their Call for Entries. The awards have some new categories this year, including:
You have until January 18th 2010 to submit your entries.
A little while back I suggested that I would try and be forthcoming with our sales numbers through Ovi so that the Flash development community could see what was happening behind the scenes with us on this new sales channel. This certainly wasn’t to say that I thought Moket’s content would be the biggest selling through the store (far from it) but I thought it would be helpful since we have been in the Ovi Store from the start.
As some of you will know, Ovi’s reporting screens were removed for quote some time while they were “fixed”, and have just become available again over the weekend. Here’s what I can show you now in terms of how things have been progressing for us: Read More
OviFlash.com is a new website just launched today that aims to promote and direct traffic to Flash games and applications on the new Nokia Ovi Store deck. This is an independent website (not run by Adobe or Nokia, and takes no revenue from them or the developers featured) and is all about growing the Flash mobile market for developers, and raising awareness of what Flash content can be found on Ovi. It’s also aimed at increasing visibility for Flash developers on a mobile portal, which will become quite crowded like like other app stores – making content discoverability one of the key issues that independent developers must face.
So if you’ve had Flash games, applications or themes published on the Ovi Store, email your information to info@oviflash.com and get it linked up and featured. You can also follow along on Twitter @oviflash.
There’s certainly been some “interesting” press around the launch of Nokia’s Ovi Store in the past 24 hours. Some good, some not so good. Unfortunately I think the “soft launch” Nokia were planning opened a little “harder” than expected and some early experiences of Ovi have perhaps not been as favorable as they could have been. Nevertheless, Ovi is here and represents a great opportunity for Flash mobile developers in the long term.
Over on Gamasutra at the moment, there’s a (sponsored) feature on the various gaming experiences that can be found on Ovi, covering Flash, Java, Symbian and N-Gage. Moket’s soccer-skills game “Palleggio” is featured as an example of Flash Lite games on Ovi.
