London, England based Playyoo will today announce the launch of its Playyoo Game Contest and give a sneak preview of its community-based platform for mobile casual games at the Adobe MAX event in Chicago.
The Playyoo Game Contest is open to independent mobile game developers using Adobe Flash Lite; prizes include cash and promotional goods. Winners will be selected by Playyoo members based on download popularity and user ratings as at February 28, 2008.
Officially launching in December, Playyoo will offer a sort of YouTube for a mobile gaming that offers free games for mobile phones, user-generated content, social interaction and personal expression. Features will include:
- A “Easy discovery and download process” that will allow mobile phone users to find games of interest through the Playyoo platform. The site will provide personalized recommendations based on each user’s preferences and those of friends.
- Game creation tools that will allow users with no experience to design their own games
- Social networking features that will allow developers and users who interact with others
Playyoo promises an interesting offering that in part seems to be a logical, interactive step forward from the tried and million times cloned YouTube model. Playyoo will compete directly against Greystripe, another company offering free mobile games, but with licensed product as opposed to UGC (see our previous coverage here). I suspect there will be room in the market for both models, the interesting part to watch will be seeing which model becomes the more popular over time.
IdiotYOo
The site asks for username and password… not available yet?
First place gets $10,000 !
Fake Michael Arrington
the competition etc is revealed at Adobe MAX, so link isn’t live yet, but it will be shortly (ie this morning)
Duncan Riley: Where exactly is that competition revealed?
Hi,
We’re just putting some final, final touches to the web site over here… up by 14:00 European Time
Regards
David Mantripp
Playyoo
ps – thanks for the post!
that sounds interesting
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
Very Hot topic indeed.
Ducan, we announced early september the launch of
http://www.ugengames.com. It is Mobitween’s online portal for players, developers and graphic designers, to create, upload, customize and share Flash games for mobile phones and the web.
Mobitween positions itself as the first Game 2.0 company bridging the gap between game developers and players. ugenGames lets users personalize games with their graphics and sounds, or those submitted by the community.
Give it a look…
Best regards
Marc Alloul
http://www.mobitween.com
Mobile Games are very hot now a days!!
People become freak of mobile games and i am one of java mobile game lovers. Use to download java mobile games from youpark.com, nclubsoft.com, dogandbonegames.com and feedurmobile.com. Still hunting for more though they have good stuff
mobile games are hot but im more into mobile software which increases my productivity as a mobile owner.
Good news