December 15th, 2004 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Trends | No Comments »
The future of mobile gaming depends on breaking out of simply making arcade-classic retreads, and on developing an infrastructure that supports multiplayer. Greg Costikyan knows games.
An accomplished fantasy novelist, old school board game designer, and online and mobile game designer, he’s also worked as a gaming consultant and was Unplugged Games’s Chief Design Officer. Recently, Costikyan started working for Nokia Research. I interviewed him by phone, where he spoke from his home office in New York City about the latest ideas in mobile games, and why their success as a business is holding back their full potential for the mobile platform. More …
