日前，德国手机社交游戏平台Scoreloop宣布进驻三星bada手机及其网络电视平台，这一举动再次说明，在智能手机游戏市场，苹果iPhone和谷歌Android平台两分天下的日子已经一去不返。

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据悉，Scoreloop平台可提供增加手机游戏社交功能的软件开发工具包，iPhone和Android开发商已可利用该工具在游戏中添加积分排行、友人邀请、成就分享等社交功能，现在也开始面向三星bada平台游戏开发商开放这些功能。

另外，由三星赞助支持的世界网络游戏大赛（World Cyber Games events，最专业的电子游戏玩家的世界级锦标赛）的社交游戏环节中，也将使用到Scoreloop的基础配套功能。

目前，Scoreloop平台已聚集了3000多名使用其工具的开发商，主要竞争对手包括Aurora Feint公司的OpenFeint，Ngmoco公司的Plus+，木瓜移动以及Mocospace等手机游戏平台。该公司董事长马克·甘平戈（Marc Gumpinger）表示，Scoreloop致力于成为一家“白色标签”（white label，即一方提供产品，另一方用自己的品牌进行销售）的公司，打造让大型开发商获得更多用户的平台。

Scoreloop正逐步添加促进游戏营收转化的一些功能，其客户还包括台湾的移动运营商中华电信公司。

该平台还将为三星bada手机中提供一款游戏搜索应用，用户通过该应用不但能与朋友沟通联系，还能搜索到对方正在玩的游戏。

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此外，用户还可以在三星网络电视登陆Scoreloop游戏平台，因为三星应用商店“三星乐园”支持用户通过网络电视渠道购买游戏和其他应用。

甘平戈表示，“对我们来说，这项合作意义深远，因为电视平台推广应用的潜力也很大。”

据了解，Scoreloop平台目前每天新增用户达10万人，该公司成立于2008年，现有35名员工。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

Scoreloop delivers social game platform for Samsung phones and TVs

Smartphone games are starting to spread out beyond the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms. In support of that trend, Scoreloop is announcing today that it is adapting its social gaming platform to support Samsung’s mobile phones and web-connected TVs.

Munich, Germany-based Scoreloop makes a software development kit that adds social features to mobile games. Game developers can use it to easily add social features such as leaderboards, friend invites, and achievement sharing to their mobile games on the iPhone and Android platforms. Today, Scoreloop is adding support for phones that use Samsung’s bada mobile operating system.

Samsung will also use Scoreloop’s infrastructure for social games at its World Cyber Games events, which are tournaments for the world’s best professional video game players.

Scoreloop has more than 3,000 developers using its SDK already. It competes with Aurora Feint’s OpenFeint platform, as well as Ngmoco’s Plus+, Papaya Mobile, and Mocospace. Scoreloop is trying to set itself apart by being a “white label” company, where it provides a platform that big companies use to reach more consumers, said Scoreloop chief executive Marc Gumpinger.

Scoreloop has steadily been adding features such as monetization to expand its reach. It has also added customers such as Taiwan’s Chunghwa, a big mobile carrier.

Through social sharing, Scoreloop helps games spread to new users as friends share their games and achievements. Scoreloop will enable a games discovery app on Samsung’s bada devices to let friends connect and discovery what others are playing.

Scoreloop also enables game makers to make money via in-game virtual currency transactions.

The social platform will also work on Samsung TVs that are connected to the internet. Samsung has created an app platform that allows you to buy games and other apps that you can play on the TV set.

“To us, this deal is very interesting because of the potential for apps on the TV,” Gumpinger said.

Scoreloop says that games using its platform are amassing 100,000 new users per day. The company was founded in 2008 and has 35 employees.（source:venturebeat）