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Entertainment is big business, and if the number of wireless game developers is any indication, it appears that some of that activity is finding its way to what once was the business-user domain. According to Datamonitor (www.datamonitor.com), four out of five wireless phone users will play wireless games by 2005, representing 200 million customers and creating $6 billion in wireless gaming revenue in the United States and Europe. Although many early versions are simplistic and somewhat herky jerky, developers are constantly offering improved versions, including multiplayer, interactive games that will continually attract larger audiences.
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Buzztime Entertainment
www.buzztime.com
5966 La Place Court
Suite 100
Carlsbad, CA 92008
760-476-1976
V. Tyrone Lam, president & CEO
Focus: Produces and broadcasts multiplayer trivia and sports games for
interactive television and wireless platforms.
Current Titles: Buzztime Trivia and Predict-the-Play
Future Titles: Expansion of Predict-the-Play sports games and
trivia-quiz titles
Cosmic Infinity
7035 Estoril Road
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada L5N 1N3
905-821-9872
Dave Dies, president, CEO & founder
Focus: Development of multiplayer, interactive games. Upcoming games
include community-building features and are enhanced by information
gained from testing, user tracking and player feedback.
Current Titles: Cosmic Casino (poker, blackjack and slots);
Zillionaire! (trivia); Rogue Warz (multiplayer with in-game chat);
classic games, including 4-in-a-Row, Guess It!, MineSweeper, Klondike,
checkers, crossword and Reversi
Future Titles: Shade; multiplayer games
Creature Labs
Quayside
Bridge Street
Cambridge
CB58AB
England
+44 (0) 1223 727000
Chris McKee, CEO
Focus: Under a 2-year agreement, Motorola will market games developed
by Creature Labs. These will be friendly and aimed at non-traditional
gamers, including a greater percentage of female users, as well as the
youth market, to give wireless operators a promising new form of
revenue generation.
Current Title: Wireless Sea Monkeys
Digital Bridges
3 Pitreavie Court
Pitreavie Business Park
Queensferry Road
Dunfermline Fife
KY11 8UU - United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1383 723234
Kevin Bradshaw, founder
Focus: To allow people to engage in interactive entertainment anywhere
at any time.
Current Titles: Casino (poker, blackjack, craps, slot machine);
classic parlor games (hangman, ticktactoe, fours); quiz and puzzle
games such as Quizcall, Codebreaker and Jotto; Wireless Pets
Future Titles: Top Trumps, Draughts, Backgammon, Wentworth Golf, LMA
Football Manager, Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, Adventureland
Handy Games
Kilianstrasse 3
97437 Hassfurt
Germany
+49 9521 / 951 473
Christopher Kassulke, Markus Kassulke, Udo Bausewein,
co-founders
Focus: Move beyond small games such as ticktactoe, blackjack and text
adventures to ongoing, multiplayer games with monthly updates.
Current Titles: Twenty-three SMS titles, including multiplayer
Battleship, multiplayer Racing, Goldfinder and Quiz; 10 WAP titles,
including Crates, Knights, Tanks, Girlfriend and Strip Poker
Future Titles: Mass multiplayer and multiplatform games, Java games
for mobile devices
Indiqu
9727 Pacific Heights Boulevard
Second Floor
San Diego, CA 92121
858-458-5777
John Forbes, CEO
Focus: Moving away from in-house games development to focus on its
games/entertainment platform; works with third-party developers.
Current Titles: 22 titles in portfolio, including casino games such as
blackjack, poker and slots; classic games such as ticktactoe, gin rummy
and bingo; word games such as hangman and Anagram; arcade games; and
fighting games such as Street Brawl. Also, two Java games: Brickbreak
and Blocks!.
Future Titles: Games on Qualcomm’s BREW platform; massive
multiplayer games; location-based games; mass-market games that are
easy to access and simple; games that use licensed brands for
mass-market appeal.
In-Fusio
6, Parvis des Chartrons 33075
Bordeaux, France
+33 (0) 556 799 200
Gilles Raymond, founder
Focus: GameBoy-like games, location-based games, real-time mass
multiplayer games; local multiplayer games using Bluetooth. Next
year’s focus will be on color, PC-like games and streaming video
on UMTS.
Current Titles: Wata Raider, 3D Maze, Jungle (ExEn technology); Pharo,
Katch’em, Blackjack, Football Fans, In Spirit, Jackpot, Quizz,
Tac-In, Color Mind, Matches Match, Recto Verso, P4, Yam’s, Poker,
Dragon Chase (WAP); Crazy Pet, Push, ReShape (SMS embedded)
JAMDAT Mobile
3415 S. Sepulveda Boulevard
Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Mitch Lasky, CEO
Focus: In addition to its suite of middleware components that enable
the creation and distribution of mobile entertainment, JAMDAT also
creates and aggregates multiplayer mobile games.
Current Titles: multiplayer Gladiator; Roshambo-fu (a variation on
rock paper scissors); trivia
Future Titles: Gladiator 2.0 (WAP, Java & BREW), Golf (WAP, Java
& BREW), Home Run Derby Baseball, Tarot, Admiral (strategy
game)
Ludiwap
27 rue de Berri 75 008
Paris, France
+33 01 53 77 62 71
Michel Guillemot, president
Focus: To create games for all mobile devices and all protocols.
Current Titles: WAP logic games Ludibrain, Infernal Labyrinth, The
Cabbage Goat Wolf, 3 or 4 Liters; adventure games In Cold Blood, Drake,
Valdo and the Pirates, Valdo in India, Giacomo Casanova, Billy the Kid,
Brucilia, Sara Underground; management games Les Maitres du Vin,
Broker, Movie Stars; exploration game Incubus; SMS games ticktactoe,
Quizz, Button War, Chiefs' fight, Hangman; i-mode game Private Eye; and
PDA game Rayman (Palm OS and Pocket PC).
nGame
Logic House
143-147 Newmarket Road
Cambridge, CB5 8HA
United Kingdom
US Office
2606 Spring Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
John M. Brimacombe, CEO; Dave Lloyd, CTO; and Matt Kelland, head of
content — co-founders
Current Titles: DataClash; Alien Fish Exchange; Chop Suey Kung Fu;
Merchant Princes; Dragon Army; Carrier Force; parlor and casino
games
Future Titles: Escargot Grand Prix (working title); Dogfight (working
title), Megalomaniac
Riot Entertainment
Unioninkatu 24
00130 Helsinki, Finland
+358-9-681971
Jan Wellmann, CEO
Focus: Creates, publishes and distributes entertainment, such as games
and leisure services, to be used globally on any mobile device.
Strategy is to form partnerships with leading entertainment brands such
as Marvel Enterprises and 20th Century Fox.
Current Titles: X-Men, Spider-Man; Riot Casino; Riot Puzzle; SMS
Murderer; Fishgame (SMS)
Future Titles: Sports games; classic games; a family of products based
on popular TV programs; and community-building products that involve
horoscopes.
UIEvolution
11400 SE 6th
Suite 100
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-460-0860
Satoshi Nakajima, president & CEO
Focus: UIEvolution has invented a software platform for mobile devices
that will stream presentation-rich, server-based games over wireless
networks — fundamentally changing the way users experience the
wireless Internet.
Current Titles: Slider, Mines, Hangman, 2-player Reversi and a
sokoban-type game
Unplugged Games
141 Fifth Avenue
Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10010
212-777-1190
Greg Costikyan, chief design officer and co-founder; Eric Goldberg,
president and co-founder
Focus: Creates and supports multiplayer games for mobile phones and
other wireless devices.
Current Titles: Word Trader; Rags2Riches
Future Titles: Void Raider, Fortune Cookie, Mage Duel, WWI Ace,
Paranoia, Monster League Manager
Wapzen Communications
P.O. Box 57
Waterford, CA 95386
209-874-5659
Steve Monsen, president
Focus: To develop multiplayer wireless games in the near future. The
human element (almost) always is more entertaining than artificial
intelligence or a linear-type game.
Current Title: Magic 8 Ball
Future Title: Shot in the Dark, single and multiplayer
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