Massively Mobile is a developer of video games and related technologies for mobile devices. We started in 2005 as a group of gaming industry veterans with backgrounds that spanned a wide array of gaming platforms and a shared belief about the direction of the field. For all the talk of "convergence" across PC, console, and mobile technologies, we found that the gameplay experiences on those devices have remained very separate. Instead of giving players brand new challenges, or the chance to enter the worlds of their favorite games in a new way, most mobile games seemed to be either meticulously duplicated or ridiculously simplified versions of titles offered on other platforms. That's just bizarre. Who wants to play Game X Mobile: Smaller and Not as Fun? We don't. So we started to think about what we would like to play on a mobile device, and our answers had a lot in common: why not make mobile games that wouldn't try to force other platforms' rules onto their users? How about mobile games that utilize the unique advantages of the platform, like ubiquitous networking? What about mobile games that could talk to each other – or to console, PC, or MMO games – over the network that they all already connect to? Mobile games like that would offer players experiences they've never had, give in-game characters a life outside of their embedded platforms, and give publishers the opportunity to convert one-time customers into multiplatform brand loyalists. Sounds pretty good, right? We thought so too. That's why we formed Massively Mobile, and that's what we do now.

First annual Independent Games Festival Mobile selects Creative Director Demetri Detsaridis as a competition judge. The IGF Mobile winners will be announced February 19th, 2008 at the Game Developers Conference. December 2007. Massively Mobile Creative Director, Demetri Detsaridis, gives a talk entitled "Transmedia Design Paradigms: Metagame/Intergame" at the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2007) in Salzburg, Austria. June 2007 Despite a sore throat, Tech Director Michael Foster delivers "Programming Networked Mobile Games (That Have A Reason To Be Connected)" to a packed lecture hall at GDC 07. March 2007 Hip Hop Immortals, our first title of 2007, launches on Boost Mobile. February 2007 Michael Foster, Massively Mobile’s Technical Director, chosen to speak at the Game Developers Conference 2007, the industry’s foremost professional gathering. January 2007 QuicklyBored, the “voice of mobile gaming” gives a point-by-point response to the Mobile Developer’s Manifesto…and they don’t hate it. November 2006 The Mobile Developer’s Manifesto, by our own Creative Director Demetri Detsaridis, appears on Gamasutra.com as part of their “Mobile Editorial” feature series. November 2006 Gamasutra, the Internet home of the games industry’s trade newspaper, covers our launch announcement. October 2006 Massively Mobile formally kicks off with a press release that plants our flag in the sand of mobile gaming. October 2006

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