Nokia has demonstrated that they listen to the blogosphere by reconsidering their Draconian single-device N-Gage game licenses. With that in mind, allow me to offer three simple suggestions to improve the N-Gage service.

1) Embeddable profiles — Online gamers love to show off on the Web. That’s why Xfire users embed their profiles all over the place. That’s part of the reason Xfire virally spread and became a $102 million company. Nokia should provide the same embed functionality for N-Gage profiles.

Space Impact Kappa Base is the N-Gage iteration of Nokia’s popular Space Impact mobile game. Kappa Base introduces a new gameplay dynamic: grazing enemy bullets with your Skyblade accumulates both points and kinetic energy. Kinetic energy, in turn, can be used to power special weapons.
One of the regular weapons in the game, the Guardians, absorbs enemy bullets. Absorbing bullets with the Guardians also accumulates points and kinetic energy, as if you had grazed those bullets with your Skyblade.
Absorbing bullets with the Guardians is much easier than grazing them with your Skyblade. This presents an opportunity to exploit the bullet-happy boss …read more