Chennai based smackall.com, the applications and porting division of Technology Solutions provider Blitz, is in the midst of developing hi end mobile multiplayer games.
The games currently under production at the studio include, ‘Staggy’ (working title) A character based game themed around “Stag knight” (Action movie yet to be release by a UK based film maker). The game play is woven around the main character in the film. It is more like an RPG game, where the gamer takes control of the hero and fights with the enemies.
The second project that is being worked on is a collection of global multiplayer card games which can be played via a GPRS connection. These games are being developed for a Jordan based company for whom Smackall is also developing a game server for the multiplayer version. This collection consists of classical 2 player board and card games.
A global multiplayer game server for mobile phones which is similar to the concept of SNAP technology of NOKIA is also currently under development.
The last game on the list of projects that are underway is a mobile poker game where players can bid. This game is also a global and massively multiplayer game where many players have the option of joining a single game from different parts of the world
Speaking to Animation Xpress.com, Smackall.com CEO and Founder Harishankar shared, “We have a separate team which works for other publishers in Mobile Game development outsourcing and as of now this team is handling three projects. We also have a separate porting team for porting mobile games and applications to over 250 devices. Our games are available through leading networks such as Airtel, Hutch, BPL and Spice Telecom.”
Established in early 2006, Smackall’s creative team consists of twenty game developers. It has so far developed ten games including Jamie Mellado, Arctic Breeze, Scud Pal, Erratic Trek, Pixel Ambo, Zircon, M. Sudoku, Lunar Mission, Junket trip and Eluder.
Speaking about Smackall’s future plans, Harishankar concluded, “We are now working on upgrading our global multiplayer mobile game server which is expected to be functional by the end of October. This server will act as a router for mobile applications to connect with each other for a multiplayer game from anywhere in the world. In the future we also hope to create more games under our own brand”