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Introduction
Mobile Game Development is growing rapidly creating big boom in all aspects. As many mobile game developers emerge everyday, the mobile gaming and innovations in this field improves rapidly. Yet the world in infant stage in mobile gaming when compared to PC and console games. This article speaks about the developments that will overtake the mobile game development scenario in a few years.

Future Mobile Game Development
The following topics are the new emerging trends in the mobile gaming world. And these trends will conquer the entire market in a few years to come.

- Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game Development

- Advertising/Promoting Through Mobile Games
Promoting Cinemas/Movies Through Mobile Games
Advertising New Products Through Mobile Games

- 3d Real World Scenario Mobile Games

Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game Development
The 3rd generation games with AI computer players are getting outdated today and the global multiplayer is getting its value. For this reason Online Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game Development is introduced, where players play against many other people around the world with their mobile phones. Definitely in a few years massive multiplayer mobile games will hit the market like the PC game scenario. Today, there is very little number of global multiplayer mobile games available in the market like Find4 by Smackall.com.

Interactive Server
This Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game is using the GPRS connection for the networking with a central server acting as router. It is almost the same as Nokia’s SNAP technology. This trend will soon get popular around the mobile game players. Smackall.com has developed the Massive Multiplayer Mobile Game SDK for FIND4 game. A customize SDK and the server is now available for sale.

Advertising/Promoting Through Mobile Games
Advertising and promoting a product is totally getting changed to new concept. Consumer product based companies are advertising their products through the PC games and with other entertainment products. As the mobile gaming have a very market and the advertisements reach very closer to the customers. It is very helpful for mobile game developer to make their games cost effectiveness and earn big revenue from them.

Promoting Cinemas/Movies through Mobile Games
Nowadays, film promoters look for publishing their cinemas/movies through other entertainment Medias. For this reason many producers and film makers come up for developing a game based on the movie. This type of publishing or promoting will reach the right customer and the right age group which the film is aiming at. So that today’s film directors are promoting their films through the mobile games with the help of custom mobile game developers. Games are developed based on the characters from the movie. These types of games will reach the customer soon and bring a good result as the character is familiar and the game story resembles the one they are impressed on.

Advertising New Products through Mobile Games
Mobile Game Development is moving towards advertising market to make it cost effective and earn more revenue from each game. Some consumer product based companies have started investing on games. For example a famous painkiller in India has advertised on a mobile game in which they player uses their product for injuries. This type of advertising has become familiar in mobile game industries today. Soon there will be running displays in the bottom of the screen to hold advertisements and flash news.

3d Real World Scenario Mobile Games
Today in mobile game development there is lot of restrictions and minimal resources available for game development, like CPU and memory in the device. The mobile gaming industry has just reached 3D gaming and soon there will be real world scenario games on mobile phones.

About Author
Vishnu sankar, mobile game developer from Smackall.com an Indian based mobile game development company. Smackall.com provides high quality of customized mobile games and mobile applications. We have recently released our multiplayer mobile game SDK. For further details please visit http://www.smackall.com.

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