Making Mobile Phones the Ultimate Game Platform

Speakers: Trip Hawkins

Track: Mobile: Vision

Format: 60-minute Keynote

Experience Level: All

Description: For thirty years, the video game industry has been an "arms race" as new technologies and game designs strived to make the gaming experience ever more immersive. But gamers and developers are beginning to realize that games can mean so much more than 3D math. Mobile phones are a new kind of platform that must be measured by different criteria. Mobile can be a first-rate platform that is the best in the world at some very important things, reaching back to why people play in the first place. A "craftsman" approach must be taken to make the most of mobile and to overcome various obstacles. Lessons can be learned from media history and from early examples of mobile innovation.