The Independent Game Festival's mobile finalists were announced earlier this week, and the results suggest evidence of a popular shift: the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms have dominated each category, leaving scant room for traditionally-built Java and Flash mobile offerings.
What does this mean for the mobile gaming industry? Has the popularity of the iPhone readdressed the issues with this genre, offering developers the opportunity to generate games that are above and beyond what we have seen before?
And what will happen next year, once the Google Android platform lands on the shelves in their forthcoming G-Phone? Already, UK mobile content developers are creating games for the open source operating system, which has already found its way on a spectrum of hardware.
Will the open source movement wrestle the stronghold the boys and girls from Cupertino have established in this space?
