Greg Costikyan on the future of mobile games: "...being able to talk with people while you're playing is one of the major appeals of online gaming, because multiplayer games in particular are inherently social in nature."

Getting the budget out of a client: "When they tell you they don’t have a number say, “Oh, ok. So a $100,000 solution would work for you?” They’ll quickly come back… “Oh no, probably something more around $30K.” BINGO: That’s the budget."

"Guess the budget" is my favourite game in the world, ever.

A catalog of mobile users.

Yahoo on non-traditional mobile games: "In another upcoming Digital Chocolate-developed game, called "Message in a Garden," players keep a virtual garden, adding water when needed while sending pictures of their handiwork or messages to fellow gardeners."

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