I haven't done much gaming on mobile devices, although I do own a Droid Eris(a piece of shit phone), and have a couple rather simple games that I play whilst on the can. I have not seen any asynchronous games for Android yet. I think this type of multiplayer gaming would be quite cool for me. A, consume when you can, play when you can game that could theoretically easily allow massive amounts of people to play within the same game instance. Take your turn, submit the turn, wait for your turn to be available again. A notification could be sent letting you know when it is available. You could click on the notification to launch the game, make your move, submit, and get on with your business. Facebook has games similar to this in Farmville and Mafia Wars.
WP7's XBox Live stuff seems to be supporting this type of gameplay natively. Should be interesting to see what developers can do with this. A Civ type game would be perfect for the platform.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
