Thursday February 10, 2005 Massively Multiplayer Games - Massively Moving to Mobile
It's becoming evident that massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft (free registration for NY Times article) are becoming drivers of the gaming industry. Now they are moving to J2ME technology-enabled cell phones too. One example is Pocket Kingdom on the Nokia (Dis) N-gage. See: Web Article on Massively Multiplayer: Pocket Kingdom The trick will be to allow the players to keep playtime to short bursts (a few minutes) for the mobile players, so they can catch snippets of online play while staying in line or waiting around. The J2ME cell phone is not the platform to use to play for hours. Keep your online games short, sweet, and lots of fun and they will be automatic hits. |
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