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.

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!

Here’s an interesting article from Javaworld . It talks about how Flash is becoming a ubiquitous platform just like Java. When Flash 10 becomes available next year, it promises to run the same content on smartphones as well as Desktops essentially emulating the Java’s philosophy of ‘write once run everywhere’.

Not that folks at Java world are sitting siltent- Java has been working on JavaFX which promises a rich user experience and will compete with Flash. However, the mobile client for JavaFX is still in infancy and it is unknown when the SDK will be available.

With more than 1 million developers worldwide, and a good roadmap for penetrating into mobile devices, there’s a good case to be made that Flash may make Java obsolete at some point.

Nintendo Wii’s opera browser now supports Flash Lite 3.1.  Previously it supported Flash 7. This means they can play youtube and other internet sites supported by Flash 9 not requiring actionscript 3. Hulu requires higher version unfortunately. So two out of the top three game consoles (Sony PS3, Nintendo Wii and XBox) now have Flash player.

I came accross this article that gave 10 reasons why Flash is better than Silverlight. I agree with some of the comments there that the article is biased and Microsft has got several good things built into Silverlight. However I think it is too early for someone to drop Flash and consider developing Silverlight  applications- especially when Silverlight is installed only on fraction of the computers than Flash. I don’t know how many Silverlight developers are out there, but I doubt if it is anywhere near number of Flash developers. Nevertheless, it is being promoted by Microsoft and should be followed closely.

Some of you may have seen this before, but Smashing Magazine published an article that compared Silverlight and Flash a while ago. Not that Silverlight is a big player yet, but nevertheless it is still interesting to look at what Microsoft is offering. Read the article here.

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 .