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九城与OpenFeint资助独立开发者实现跨平台发展战略

发布时间:2011-03-09 23:14:30 Tags:,,

近日,手机社交游戏平台OpenFeint与其投资者中国游戏公司九城宣布,将通过Fund9基金会的1亿美元,向游戏开发商提供资金和发行服务支持。

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游戏邦获悉,OpenFeint之前已推出了iPhone和iPad的跨平台发展战略,最近又将这一服务范围延伸到了Android平台,于数周前向Andorid开发者开放了“plug and play”游戏开发服务。OpenFeint平台目前的玩家超过了6800万,在Android平台共推出了250款游戏。

Fund9基金会的宗旨是帮助独立开发者拓宽发行渠道,OpenFeint和九城将审核并挑选其中的出色游戏,投放到Android平台上的OpenFeint。游戏邦还得知,这两家公司将根据这些游戏的用户体验、过去在其他应用商店的下载纪录,以及开发商的人才资源等情况,选择一些游戏投放到中国市场,并向其提供本土化服务支持。

Fund9成立于去年12月,主要投资领域包括手机应用产品、游戏引擎和平台技术开发,组建成员包括九城、华岩资本、成为基金和险峰华兴创业投资。

面对来自苹果Game Center的竞争,跨平台运营成了OpenFeint的重要发展战略,因此对OpenFeint来说,Android这个快速发展的平台确实是个理想的选择。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

OpenFeint And The9 Team Up To Bring Game Developers To Android Platform

OpenFeint, the comprehensive mobile social gaming platform from Aurora Feint, is teaming up with its recent investor and Chinese gaming company The9 on a joint initiative to bring game developers to the Android platform. Basically, OpenFeint and The9 will be using the $100 million Fund9, a Chinese-based mobile internet development fund, to fund game developers.

As we’ve written in the past, OpenFeint has taken a cross-platform approach to its social gaming platform, first launching on the iPhone and iPad and more recently adding Android game developers to its rapidly growing community, launching its plug and play social game development to developers to the public a few weeks ago. The startup, which has over 68 million players, has already helped launch 250 games on the Android platform.

The fund is designed to help indie developers who may not have the resources to build for additional platforms. OpenFeint and The9 will review and select the best games and will fund their port to Android and OpenFeint integration. The companies will also pick select games to expand to China and will facilitate their localization. The companies say that the games will be chosen based on the quality of the experience, past download performance in other app stores, and the talents of the actual developer.

The $100 million Fund9 is a Chinese-based development fund that invests in mobile app, game engine, and platform technology developers. Announced last December, the fund is a collaboration amongThe9, China Rock Capital Management, Chengwei Ventures, and China Renaissance K2 Ventures.

Multiplatform has been an important strategy for OpenFeint, as the company faces competition from Apple’s GameCenter. The Android platform is rapidly growing and may be a wise bet for the company. (source:techcrunch)


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