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!

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 .

So I go to Walmart (of all stores) to buy a new game for Wii for my 10 year old nephew(Not that I am a serious gamer, but for some reason waiving my arms in front of TV to play Wii gives me great joy!). Of the 100s of games out there, we finally settle on couple. We come home and find that the games are total dud- not much can be changed in the background and there aren’t many options either. So he is upset that I got him a ‘bad’ deal(being a computer geek and everything he thinks I know everything about everything ;). Then it dawned on me that I should have spent some time researching on Gamestop or Testfreaks to find what people are saying about the game before purchasing. I can not return that game as the box is now open. So I am stuck with a game that he probably won’t play again and a bill of cool $39.99 (not to mention upset nephew)…. Lesson learned!

There’s a book available on Amazon written by Todd Perkins on developing Flash games on Nintendo Wii. Check it out here. Thanks to William for the tip.

I came accross a nice video tutorial on 5 minvideo.com web site. It shows how to upload Flash games on Sonys PSP. As you know, Sony PSP has Flash 9 support.

Via Alessandro: A new Flash Lite game Bubble Elephants is created by Spilgames. You can check it out on their web site.