SkillPod Media – Online and Mobile Casual and Social Gaming Solutions, White Label Games sites, AdverGaming, In-game Advertising & Custom Game Development

Adobe has launched its new over-the-air mobile runtime, Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player (beta). Adobe’s strategy is to enable developers to create and distribute applications for the phones and provide a better on-device experience. Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 are the first supported OS and Flash Lite 3.1 is automatically installed and updated while the games are downloaded.

New revenue streams are vital for internet based companies and products, and Adobe is providing an additional delivery system and a new monetization solution for content creators using flash based mobile applications. SkillPod Media was approached by, Thumplay.com and Zed, to provide games for this history making event and successfully supplied 31 games, for both the Windows and Nokia handsets. Chris Phenner executive vice president, business development at Thumbplay.com had this to say about the experience with SkillPod Media, “top honours go to the team at SkillPod for walking through walls to write the software and work through some of issues we encountered with the beta release”.

Thumbplay sell digital content to an audience of more than 230 million mobile customers in the United States”. “This is the type of event we’ve been working towards for the past 5 years, it just goes to show that a South African game developer, can play with the biggest and best around the globe”, says Mark van Diggelen, CEO of SkillPod Media. “We have an incredibly competent and passionate team of individuals working behind the scenes, ensuring that we’re in a position to offer globally competitive products and services, this launch is a culmination of a massive effort to enter the Mobile Flash Lite Games market with a bang,” he adds.

SkillPod Media focuses on the casual games market and has developed its own game management platform which runs the games sites of publishers scattered across the globe, version 5 of the platform will be launched in the next few weeks and has a host of new features and game titles on offer. We have focused heavily on the user experience in the new platform and the new game titles selection, the new “white label” platform is a quantum leap in terms of what’s on offer to publishers across the globe.