Indie game developers can qualify for some pretty awesome programs these days thanks to other major developers offering up programs to help the indie guys out. MocoSpace is another one getting into the developer helping arena with their new million dollar developer fund for HTML5 mobile game developers.
German company, Rumble Media, has opened the doors to their newest site called PlayAndroid which is a portal dedicated to nothing but Android games. This discovery portal is geared towards trying to help solve the problem of finding good high-quality games on the Android Market. Granted the new web-based market helps with that a bit.
Today Google held their media event which it will shown live on YouTube. While we aren’t at the actual event, we watched the live showing of the event where they were showing a preview of Honeycomb. Other announcements were rumored to be coming in the event such as a web-based marketplace.
Scaleform have been in the UI (User Interface) industry for some time now specializing in user interfaces for some pretty mage PC/console games. Their update to GFx, version 4.0, will be bringing new features and optimizations for game developers in the mobile arena to use when creating their user interfaces for their games.
OpenFeint’s Spotlight app has been pretty handy when trying to find new games that have OpenFeint integrated into it. Now with this new version that the team has put out onto the market, they hope that it will help game developers with OpenFeint gain better visibility through social features.
Another 3rd party app store is set to launch very soon called MobileApps.com and while another 3rd party app store is nothing new these days, the cut in profits they are offering developers is. Trying to garner the reputation of the Robin Hood for mobile developers, MobileApps.com will be offering a 95% profit cut for developers to take.
Well it seems even with the new user interface and options for developers in the back end that the Android Market team isn’t done yet which is good! Today more categories have been added to the market to help with organization and also announced just a moment ago is the ability for AT&T customers to charge purchases to their bill.
OpenFeint is planning to release an interesting new feature to their line-up of awesomeness. This feature will be a Groupon-like feature that will offer discounts and sales on games, a neat voting type of feature and even a Free game-of-the-day for everyone. While it generally said for mobile games, we got in contact with AuroraFeint for a bit of clarification.
XDA’s community has more great news for us. After their triumph over the outdated Windows Mobile 6.5 OS on HTC’s HD2 they’ve managed to do the same with Toshiba’s TG-01. The world’s first Snapdragon equipped smartphone is now compatible with Google’s more modern Android OS. From it looks of it the Snapdragon chip manages games just fine.
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