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手机应用基金会AppsArabia将推iPhone游戏《Kalimat》

发布时间:2010-11-30 10:09:23 Tags:,,,,

日前,位于阿布达比酋长国(Abu Dhabi,阿拉伯联合酋长国之一)的twofour54传媒产业区所支持创办的手机应用基金会AppsArabia宣布,推出第一款手机应用《Kalimat》(阿拉伯语意为“文字”),它是一款iPhone拼字游戏,操作语言有阿拉伯语和英语两种选择。

AppsArabia-logo

AppsArabia-logo

AppsArabia于今年初成立,发展宗旨是提高阿拉伯世界的手机应用产量。《Kalimat》这款手机游戏由AppsArabia基金会与Fares Fayad公司、软件厂商Piranha Byte合作开发而成,Fares Fayad提供游戏的创意,Piranha Byte则负责编写应用程序。

据悉,《Kalimat》将于下个月在苹果iTunes的App Store上架,目前还处于应用审核时期,预计售价1.99美元,该游戏具有多种玩法和灵活的积分系统。

AppsArabia的总经理大卫·阿什福德(David Ashford)称希望该游戏在今后六个月的销量能达到5万份,这样才能回收投资成本,为开发商创造营收渠道。

另外他还表示,“……我们也在研究将这款游戏移植到诺基亚和黑莓手机的办法,我们的市场营销主要针对中东和北美地区,但也会向全球用户辐射,因为这款游戏对世界各地的阿拉伯语人群都很有吸引力。”(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Abu Dhabi fund to release first iPhone gaming app

AppsArabia, the mobile application fund backed by Abu Dhabi’s twofour54, is hoping it will land a triple word score to make its first app a winner in the region’s video gamers.

The fund’s first app will be called Kalimat, or “word” in Arabic, a Scrabble-like iPhone game that can be played in both Arabic and English.

AppsArabia was founded earlier this year to improve the amount of mobile applications for the Arab world under the auspices of twofour54 ibtikar, the business incubation arm of Abu Dhabi’s media zone.

AppsArabia developed the Kalimat game with Fares Fayad, a Dubai-based entrepreneur who successfully pitched the fund his idea, and Piranha Byte, a software firm based in Dubai Silicon Oasis who programmed the application.

Kalimat is scheduled to be available on Apple’s iTunes App Store next month, pending approval, and will be sold for $1.99 (Dh7.3). It allows gamers to play words using a seven-letter tile rack similar to Scrabble but with variations on game play and the point system.

David Ashford, the general manager of AppsArabia, hopes the game will sell 50,000 copies over the next six months to help recoup its investment and help generate a revenue stream for the developer.

“It’s Scrabble with a difference,” said Mr Ashford. “We are also doing a feasibility study about migrating it for Nokia and BlackBerry devices. Our marketing will focus on the MENA region but we will be extended that to the global audience because it has appeal to Arabic speakers around the world.”(source:the national)


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