Barcelona: Mobile gaming becomes more mobile

Global Monday

18 Mar 2007 at 12:56 GMT Timo Poropudas

On April 2 MobileMonday Barcelona will discuss the current state of the mobile gaming industry. The future of mobile gaming seems to rely on new types of gameplays that embed the new capabilities of mobile phones to sense their context.

Mobile devices become sensitive to movements (e.g. Nokia N5500), engaging players to physically move as part of the gameplay.

Currently, the mobile game market is highly dominated by games that have an easy gameplay, few simple rules and do not require special skills to enjoy. These games are mostly clones of successful casual games such as Minesweeper or Tetris.

In addition, the emergence near-field communication (RFID, Bluetooth, QR codes) and location-aware technologies enable new types of scenarios that link virtual worlds with the players’ physical surroundings.

The speakers will be: Nicolas Nova (Switzerland) - researcher at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne; Maarten Noyons (France) - Managing Director, International Mobile Gaming Awards; Ignacio Cavero (Spain) - President and CEO, LemonQuest; and a speaker, to be confirmed, from YDreams, Spain/Portugal.

Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available.