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venturebeat消息:手机游戏平台木瓜移动新增地理定位功能

发布时间:2010-09-25 17:52:42 Tags:,,,,

日前,手机游戏平台木瓜移动(PapayaMobile)宣布更新其软件开发工具包(SDK),为开发商的Android手机游戏增加地理定位功能。

PapayaMobile adds location features

PapayaMobile adds location features

据了解,该功能与Foursquare平台的游戏登陆系统类似,玩家进入游戏后可获奖章,还可根据地理定位直接与好友进行对决。木瓜移动的SDK中增加地理定位功能后,开发商可直接将该平台的服务添加到自己的游戏中,而无需另起炉灶,建立自己的玩家登陆地理定位数据库。

木瓜移动董事长沈思表示,由于该公司自主开发的、含地理定位功能的游戏受到广泛欢迎,因此决定将这一功能延伸至木瓜移动平台的其他游戏。

木瓜移动初创时为应用开发商身份,后来打造了具有社交性质的手机游戏平台,意在让玩家通过该平台分享游戏成就,察看积分排行榜,进行互动挑战,并向更多好友介绍和推荐该平台的游戏应用。

木瓜移动目前共有400万名Android手机用户,主要竞争对手包括Aurora Feint和Scoreloop这些颇具实力的手机游戏平台。

沈思曾任谷歌中国移动产品经理,2008年与钱文杰共同创办木瓜移动,现有员工30名,曾获DCM投资机构400万美元投资。

PapayaMobile makes it a snap to add location to social mobile games

PapayaMobile is making it simple for developers to add location-based features to their Android mobile games.

The Beijing-based company, which makes a social game platform for Android developers, has updated its software development kit to enable the addition of location features. It adds functions that resemble the check-in games on Foursquare, giving players the ability to earn medals and badges or directly challenge their friends in location-based competitions. With location added to the SDK, developers can simply include PapayaMobile’s service on their own apps, rather than build up their own database of locations for user check-ins.

Si Shen, chief executive of PapayaMobile, said that the location feature on the company’s own games has been so popular that it decided to make it broadly available.

PapayaMobile started as an app maker. It has since created a platform that can be used to add social features such as sharing, leaderboards or challenges to games, in the hopes that those will make users more likely to tell friends about the app. The company competes with such rivals as Aurora Feint and Scoreloop.

Shen recently announced PapayaMobile’s Android App of the Day, which promotes quality Android games to the company’s audience of 4 million Android users.

Shen, a former mobile product manager for Google in China, started PapayaMobile in 2008 with Wenjie Qian. The company has 30 employees and raised $4 million in funding from DCM.(source:venturebeat)

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