2009 has been a banner year for mobile content, and one in which much has been accomplished. Mobile content has of course been growing since mobile phones came onto the scene, and has entered a veritable renaissance alongside the mobile phones themselves. Technology continues to strengthen and even shrink mobile phone platforms, allowing the once-chunky and clunky mobile phone models to find new life as streamlined, sophisticated and simplified units that deliver much more than their sleek frames seem to promise. In turn, mobile content finds new life in new forms – clearer and sharper ringtones, more colorful images, and even mobile games that bring console entertainment to handheld mobiles.
The 2001-born wireless entertainment provider Hands-On Mobile has announced a new set of four such games. Known for offering content via various platforms – SMS, MMS, Java/J2ME and BREW – and in various languages including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese and Korean, the company is based in California and has officers in the UK, Spain, Poland, France, Germany, China and Brazil. This new group of game apps is courtesy of the Hands-On Mobile Developer Network, which currently provides over 10 independent developers assistance in their development and distribution of apps. More than 25 games are scheduled for 2010 release, and all four of the current batch are available exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Hands-On Mobile marketing head David McCaman calls each game “unique,” a true representation of the developers’ vision. He goes on to characterize the range and quality of the developers’ apps as “phenomenal,” with a rich variety of games in the initial offering – “a graphically rich tycoon-style game with a mystical storyline”, a “music-driven multiplayer puzzle experience”, an extremely challenging hidden object game, and “a timely political message delivered in a classic arcade-style mash-up.”
To wit, the first offering, “bitFLIP”, is a playful spin on the traditional three-item-match genre. Featuring music from rising electronic musician Robert Clouth [the soundtrack is downloadable for free from tapme.net], Metamorphosis Games’ entry into the HDN release batch allows players to line up three or more pieces on a grid – and double tap to flip bits for more challenging play, clearing layers below the current one. Metamorphosis Games’ CEO and founder Joshua Hernandez credits Hands-On Mobile with offering “insight into mobile development” to help make the fun new game a reality.
Marroni Electronic Entertainment’s “iBailOut!!!” is another enjoyable offering that offers Pac Man-style analogue that substitutes The Fed for the yellow ghost-eater, cash for the Namco game’s traditional power dots, and angry citizens for ghosts. Of course, these citizens inevitably turn into Fed-hunters, chasing The Fed with pitchforks and baseball bats and thereby upping the game’s challenge level.
“Karnival” is Bitwise Design’s contribution to the release batch offering. The player is cast in the role of a carnival “freak” born with a goat’s arm, who comes to view his deformity as a gift and begins roaming the land to put together a Karnival with other “freaks” to bring entertainment to other cities. Similarly, The Tintash Inc. offering “Seven Wonders: Quest for Koh-i-noor” features an epic quest starring associate history professor [and Mohgul Emperor descendant] Harry in his journey to save the world from the Koh-I-Noor diamond’s curse.
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