Online Flash casual gaming portal SkillPod Media is heading onto mobile.

Its SkillPod Mobile Games Platform currently supports Ovi, with iPhone and iPod touch due in February, and Android and BlackBerry planned for Q2 2010.

In terms of the Ovi Store, support was added as SkillPod's Flash Lite-based mobile games were deployed, with 15 of the 40 games now available.

"The response hasn't been bad," says Mark van Diggelen, SkillPod's CEO.

"There's definitely a purchasing trend towards those handsets that include the Ovi Store links pre-installed on the handsets, such as the new Nokia N97 and 5800."

Start of the process

SkillPod will be adding 4 to 5 new titles per month to the Ovi Store. It's also recently partnered with the new BuzzCity mobile portal Djuzz, and Australasian mobile portal, Cellmania.com.

Initially launched as an internal product, in time, advertisers and publishers will be offered the option to customise, re-brand and/or translate SkillPod's mobile games for their own mobile offerings, opening up additional revenue streams.

In this way, the mobile platform will be made available for customisation and translation, either as a white label version or through a robust XML solution.

Seamless playground

It will be fully cross-platform with SkillPod's online portal, offering users the ability to register on their mobiles. They will also be able to customise the interface from a selection of skins and be able to play games via their handsets browsers, logging scores, challenging friends and entering the various tournaments on offer.

SkillPod's virtual currency, Pods, will be introduced into the mobile offering too. Finally games can be bought and installed on handsets, and offline caching of local high scores is supported.

You can find out more information at SkillPod Media's corporate website.