I happened across Kalador, a portal for mobile gaming, while poking around this morning. What really got me interested was the selection of games they have at wap.kalador.com, which seem to be ports of old school BBS style games for WAP interaction. That’s a really cool idea actually. Some of those games were really interesting, and in general worked out very well over the slow links and text only interfaces we had at the time. I’ve got to play through a couple of them and realy get a feel for it.

So I was thinking about the whole idea of BBS style interaction in general. What other kinds of content that was out there, and interaction styles that were available on BBSes, would map well to use on a mobile? It’s taking the geeky approach to figuring out how to make some interesting mobile apps, but hey, I’m a geek.

The general chat stuff was on BBSes, and does seem to be working out pretty well as a set of mobile applications. The text based games look like they could be an interesting set. There were a whole set of door games, any of which I bet would work decently as a mobile WAP game. Others?