iDreamsky公司最近宣布有82家西方游戏工作室绑定了其Android手机游戏平台SkyNet服务，由此走上了向中国市场进军的道路。

据iDreamsky所称，SkyNet是一个社交游戏分销平台，或称为“Android平台的Game Center”（Game Center for Android），目前已进入测试阶段，不久后将预装到联想和酷派等设备制造商的手机产品中。

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联想集团移动互联网应用与服务总监毛世杰表示，在评估了市场上的多个智能手机社交游戏平台后，他们认为SkyNet是唯一最了解户、开发者、制造商和中国运营商需求的平台，SkyNet提供了合适的工具，支持开发者创建一个良好的生态圈，同时还实现了玩家之间的社交互动。

iDreamsky预测到2011年底，将有400万部移动设备绑定了SkyNet服务。

游戏邦获悉，手机应用推广服务公司Appular将与iDreamsky联手，将美国手机游戏引进SkyNet平台。

Appular首席执行官Brian Akaka表示，“SkyNet是让手机应用在中国市场获得关注的理想渠道之一，我们希望将美国最受欢迎的一些游戏通过该平台推荐给中国的更多新用户。”

SkyNet平台既是一个应用销售渠道，又是一个社交游戏平台，支持开发者在产品中添加应用内置付费功能，增加用户黏性的奖励手段，在线多人模式，以及绑定新浪微博、人人网、腾讯微博等本土社交媒介。

除此之外，SkyNet还绑定了QQ币、中国银联、支付宝和电信运营商相关支付渠道等服务。

iDreamsky首席执行官Michael Chen表示，该合作项目有助于SkyNet和Appular扩大双方在亚太地区的业务范围，他们希望为中国的Android用户带来更多新内容，与Apppular的合作有助于实现这一愿景。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

iDreamsky to launch SkyNet gaming platform for Chinese Android devices

Offering developers a route to market in China, iDreamsky has announced it’s on the look out for 82 Western studios willing to integrate its new Android gaming network, SkyNet.

The technology, which the company is billing as a social gaming and distribution platform or ‘Game Center for Android’, is currently in beta, but iDreamsky says it will be preloaded on handsets from OEMs such as Lenovo and Coolpad.

“After evaluating various smartphone social gaming platforms available in the market, SkyNet is the only one that truly understands what the players, developers, manufacturers and telecoms in China need,” said Mao Shijie, Director of Mobile Internet Application and Service of Lenovo Group.

“SkyNet has the right tools to allow developers to form a good ecosystem and gamers to be socially connected.”

iDreamsky expects SkyNet to be on four million devices by the end of 2011.

Sky’s the limit

Mobile app marketing specialist Appular will collaborate with the firm to bring US games onto SkyNet.

“Many of the developers we talk to are looking for opportunities to expand their titles and brands onto an international market,” said Appular CEO Brian Akaka.

“SkyNet is the perfect way for an app to gain traction in the Chinese market. We hope to bring some of the most beloved titles from the US and introduce them to a massive new audience.”

The platform – part marketplace, part social gaming network – offers developers features such as in-app purchases, incentivisation methods, online multiplayer, and local social media integration using Sina Weibo, RenRen, and QQ micro-blogging.

SkyNet has also integrated many of the most popular Chinese payment channels such as QQ coins, Unionpay, Alipay and Telecom’s three payment gateways.

East meets west

“This partnership will help us and Appular to mutually extend our reaches across the Pacific,” said iDreamsky CEO Michael Chen of the Appular deal.

“We want to be able to introduce new content to our Android users in China and this partnership with Appular will make it possible.”（source:pocketgamer）