Gamesplaza has a web site to sell Flash games. The good thing about this site is that you can go thre from your phone and directly install Flash games on your cell phone. I have not tried this myself on the phone, but rather I tried from PC and was able to load games in the browser (but could not play because some keys must be mapped to cell phone keys). Check it out here.

Saltmarch Media is organizing India Game Developer Summit Event in Bangalore on February 27. This Summit will be a boost for the Game Developing Industries. It covers the topics like Online Gaming, Gaming Business, Gaming Career, Making Money in Gaming, Audio in Gaming, Mobile Gaming and Adobe Flash Platform and has 1 day workshop at the end as well. You can find out more information here.

Remember Asteroid? Space Invaders? Tetris? I came across an Avatar Community web site called menewsha.com. The site has several cool flash games from good old days that you can play online. The site is actually a community web site where you can create your own avatar, network with other members and of course play games in your own avatar. You can also play against other members and the site keeps track of highest score. I’d love to create my own Avatar and play against my school friends back then, and revive old rivalries. The forum has about 65,000 members which is definitely a sizable community. I found that someone had a score of 1994584 on tetris. I’d have trouble getting past 1000 to be honest.

The site has a very interesting idea to monetize- As a member one can buy from wide variety of clothes/items made by pixelists that makes up the Avatar. They are available on their shop. The site also allows you to exchange clothes and other items with other users via their exchange. Users can also create an avatar and sell via their web site. So not only you are playing games but also making money. Pretty cool huh!

Here’s another one of those web2.0 phenomenon that is starting to appear. Anyone can now build a web site consisting of online games and tell their friends and network to get online to play. A third party company specializing in creating games and widgets such as PhpArcadeScript can create and maintain games, while you focus on getting more people to come visit your site.

This particular site provides users with a software that automatically creates a web site consisting of Flash Games. It has over 3000 games and user need not have the knowledge of php for programming- so anyone with basic computer skills can take the games and make web site. Of course there is a cost associated with the games you’d use, but the support and upgrade apparently is free for lifetime. They also have tutorial guide at 8HourArcade.com which goes through the whole process from installation to marketing the web site.

I quickly went through the tutorial to find out how long it would take for me. Mind you that I am not an advanced user when it comes to programming- I have basic skills and google is generally my best friend when it comes to any issues I face. But I found that it was indeed very easy to set up a web site and use the templates to create a full featured games site. The forum had 2066 registered members with some 31000 articles- a fairly decent sized community if you run into any problems.

All the Flash based games look pretty cool although it was not clear how a developer would submit games to the site. I am sure if someone is interested, they can visit the web site and find out.

So the entrepreneurs out there, roll up your sleeves and put together a gaming site!

Dale Rankine has uploaded a training video on Vimeo called “Mobile Workflow in Adobe CS4″. The video introduces non-mobile developers to the Adobe CS4 tools and workflow when dealing with mobile content. Check it out here.

Jeff Nusz from Zodal has written an application note on Adobe developer site about writing content for Sony PSP. Check it out here .

Via Flashdevices , Sony PSP now has support for Flash 6. Granted that its an old player, but nevertheless opens up another avenue for developers to deploy their games. The player is included as a plug-in so one will have to connected to web or will have to type entire path to swf. Adobe web site provides a complete list of supported features. Check it out here .

The Nintendo Wii currently runs an Opera web browser and is capable of playing Flash 7 files within the browser as well. Developers have been writing applications for this and there are quite a few resource available. I came accross this site where quite a few resources are listed. Check it out.

Via Scott, iRiver P35 PMP will have Flash Lite 3. iRiver has been shipping devices based on Flash Lite for some time and the latest gadget has Flash UI as well as games. The device will also offer optional DVB TV tuner and WiFi. Check out the specs on iRiver home page. Looks like P35 is available only in Korea though.

I came accross this pretty cool widget for Chumby called ‘Light Synthe’. It is a screen saver, and the ’stars’(?) explote when you touch them. Take a look at the demo here. Pretty cool way to kill some time if you have nothing to do I guess!