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For the consumer, Game Lobby is Sprint's game distribution and leaderboard service. Here's their website:

http://games.sprintpcs.com

For the developer, Game Lobby is a set of APIs to access the leaderboard (high score) service. Using API's from [url=http://www.m7networks.com/]M7 Networks[/url], developers can easily create games that post high scores to the Game Lobby website.

Not only do developers get the benefit of a canned, ready to use, leaderboard service, but the players can have a single identity that is shared across multiple games from multiple vendors.

I don't think it would be terribly difficult to create a simple high score type of service. However, I think the single identity is probably worth a lot. The last thing people need is another username/password and by centralizing everything through Sprint, players keep the same username as they switch between games. That will make it considerably easier to find your friends. This could be a selling point for your game and it's only possible through Game Lobby.

The other big advantage for this service is distribution. Again, it's not hard to setup your own website to publish J2ME games, but how do you reach consumers? Distributing through Sprint's Game Lobby website will effectively take your marketing costs to zero. Of course, I'm sure Sprint would want a cut of the revenue so this is a tradeoff you'll have to evaluate for yourself.

As to how to actually sign up, I'm not sure. If somebody else knows, please speak up. My guess is that it will be difficult, if not impossible, for small independent developers to sign up. I could write a great tic-tac-toe game, but I doubt Sprint would even return my calls.

All this has caused me to think about starting a leaderboard service as a project for SprintDevelopers.com. I could write the J2ME routines and run the server so that you could easily add it to your games. Anybody interested?