GDC Keynote Addresses
Here are two video presentations from the recent Game Developer’s Conference featuring Nokia and N-Gage. Click the thumbnail beneath the description of each talk to view the video on Ovi Share. Enjoy!
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Anssi Vanjoki
Executive Vice President, Markets, Nokia
Introduced by Robert Tercek, founder and chairman of GDC Mobile
Keynote Title: “Play with anybody everywhere — context, the new paradigm for game play”
With an installed base of millions of N-Gage compatible devices, mobile gaming plays a key role in the company’s recent move into the services market. Through Ovi, Nokia’s gateway to Internet services, people will be able to easily access games, communities and other content with their mobile device. With over three billion mobile phones globally, the mobile device is quickly becoming the platform of choice to enjoy games and a wide range of digital content. Vanjoki will present Nokia’s move into context aware services and the impact that mobile devices are having on entertainment around the world and the role that N-Gage will play in evolving mobile games experiences and the industry.
Dan Scott
Global Head of Production, Nokia
Pushing the Mobile Gaming State of the art with Nokia 1st Party Games Sponsored by Nokia
Mobile gaming will not achieve the multibillion dollar predictions without the help of everyone in the industry. This talk will show how Nokia 1st Party games is addressing the major stumbling blocks that are holding everyone back and taking a leadership role in pushing the State of the Art in Mobile gaming.
Share your thoughts on the videos below.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Developers will not commit to a beta version of n-gage. What the developers need is evidence of a application being provided to everyone who own’s a n-series device, not the minority who bought a phone with a joypad. Nokia need to release N-GAGE now to show developers that Nokia means it this time. Also as Sony did, Nokia need to create it’s own games studio and develope innovating games themselves because when Sony release the PSP phone, the developers will look at Sony’s usual fanfare at release and Nokia will just be a phone manufacturer again, which is a shame because like most good ideas, Nokia will lost out, like many have to the likes of Sony, Microsoft etc, all took ideas from other’s and patented them for their own!