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debate Industry luminaries get stuck into the barriers facing
mobile gaming Develop 2008: Future of mobile games debate by
Stuart Dredge The second session at the Develop Mobile
conference today was a debate, with a panel of luminaries
discussing some of the issues around the mobile games industry.
Alex Caccia from Ideaworks3D (pictured) kicked off, saying one
of the big issues is that compared to other games platforms,
"the sheer complexity is horrendous – like being in a shopping
mall and then walking into a jungle".  This means technical
hurdles – fragmentation and suchlike - "until those are
addressed in a meaningful way, the dollars aren't going to be
invested in content as we would like". He also stressed how
young the mobile games industry is – it's a potentially massive
market, but it will take time to get there.  Next up, Patrick
Mork from Glu - "I'm an optimist" - who pointed out that Europe
is particularly tough, thanks to the sheer numb