Hello Henrik,
I believe I have sufficient information to provide you with an answer.
Only some of the companies I had written to had given me a reply
regarding their price levels. From the responses I have seen, you'll
need at least 2000USD or more in order to get a developer to start
working on an application. There may be other costs involved. Note
that the more details you provide for these companies, the more likely
you are to receive a good estimate. In addition, it would allow me to
give you a much more precise and detailed answer and bring you greater
satisfaction.
The most attractive estimate was sent to me by IT-Mobile, with a price
range of 130EUR-430EUR.
Let?s get down to the details, though. I have listed everything by
country, with the companies which responded the fastest and gave me a
price range at the top of each of the country lists.
To make browsing through the answer easier for you, I have included a
'*' (star) next to companies which provided me with price quotes.
The countries in which I found developer companies are: India,
Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland.
List structure:
1. Company Name
a. Description
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
c. URL
d. Contact information
INDIA
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1. Makelogic*
a. Description
Based in India, developer of mobile applications.
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
And I quote from an e-mail reply, "...USD 2000 ( plus or minus
20%)..."
c. URL
http://www.makelogic.com
d. Contact information
Madanu Ujjwal Kumar,
Telephone: +91 - 40 - 55322433,
madanuuk@makelogic.com,
2. Ruksun
a. Description
This company has an office in the United States, but its development
office is based in India.
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
N/A
c. URL
http://www.ruksun.com
d. Contact information
info@ruksun.com
Telephone:
+91-20-612-5571
+91-20-612-3109
3. Indicom
a. Description
This looks like a pretty large company. Please take a look at this
information page to see one of their success stories on
mobile phone game development:
http://www.indicom.co.in/cs_inos.htm
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
N/A
c. URL
http://www.indicom.co.in
d. Contact information
solutions@indicom.co.in
Telephone: +91 11 26673005/26673346/47/65
4. Nazara Mobile
a. Description
My e-mail didn't get through to this firm, but it looks quite
promising, and has a few examples of games on the following
page:
http://www.nazaratech.com/Games.htm
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
N/A
c. URL
http://www.nazaratech.com
d. Contact information
info@nazaratech.com (My e-mail didn't get through to them)
Telephone: +91 (22) 23016161 / 23061223
5. INDE
a. Description
Their website is a little difficult to read, but at least it's in
English. I found the following information on their mobile
technology development:
http://inde.co.in/software/mobileexp.htm
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
N/A
c. URL
http://www.inde.co.in
d. Contact information
Mr. Puneet K. Singhal (Technical Director)
puneetk@ch1.dot.net.in
Telephone: 0091-172-544415, 544417
6. CSL Software Ltd.
a. Description
This one is worth taking a look at.
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
N/A
c. URL
http://www.clssoftware.com
d. Contact information
info@clssoftware.com
Telephone: +91-11-26867329
7. Indiagames
a. Description
Supposedly a leading J2ME and BREW developer. They have a lot of
examples on their website.
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
N/A
c. URL
http://www.indiagames.com
d. Contact information
info@indiagames.com
Telephone: +91-22-25201127-29-30
LITHUANIA
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1. MIDAS Baltics UAB*
a. Description
Quote from their website,
"MiDAS BALTICS UAB, Midas subdivision in Lithuania, is responsible
for development of Midas Mobile Products. It's highly
skilled technical staff consists of various platforms
programmers, 2D and 3D designers, as well as new technology
researchers. About 50% of efforts is put into R&D, which
makes Midas Baltics one of the world's advanced companies working in
Mobile IT."
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
And I quote from an e-mail reply, "Depending on game complexity,
budget for a Java game would be $1K to $10K; Symbian games can
be much advanced (3d, etc.), so it's $2K to virtually large
amounts. This only included actual development, no
endorsements, etc. that can be very large amounts too."
c. URL
http://www.wapomanic.com
d. Contact information
Ilja Laurs
info@midas.lt
Telephone: +370 2 481869
http://www.wapomanic.com
POLAND
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1. SPEED*
a. Description
Professional, answers quickly and to the point.
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
And I quote from an e-mail reply, "Costs of writting applications
depend on time of production and quantity of
resources involved in such process.
Our prices (PER DAY) are:
- Project Manager - 250 EUR,
- Analyser - 220 EUR,
- Designer - 220 EUR,
- Programmer - 200 EUR,
- Programmer/Tester - 175 EUR."
c. URL
http://www.speednet.pl
d. Contact information
Piotr Grodzki (Sales Manager)
kontakt@speednet.pl
Telephone: +48 58 785 5240
2. IT-Mobile*
a. Description
They seem to have the lowest prices (at least for some applications),
but it's your call.
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
According to them, the price range is from 600PLN-2000PLN, but in
most cases it is over 25,000PLN. To spare you conversion
hassles, in EUR that's ~130EUR-430EUR and ~5400EUR,
respectively.
c. URL
http://www.it-mobile.pl
d. Contact information
Marian Witkowski
mw@it-mobile.pl
Telephone: +48 604 907 889
3. HDF Software
a. Description
This seems to be a pretty big company. They wanted a range of details
for a price quote, which I was unable to provide them with.
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
N/A
c. URLs
http://www.hdf.com.pl
http://www.InternetGames.pl
http://www.TeamManager.net
d. Contact information
Russak Lukasz
HDF SOFTWARE (TEAMS)
+48 71 34 50 204
UKRAINE
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1. Qplaze Mobile Development*
a. Description
From their website, "In the year 2000 Bogdan Znakharenko and Boris
Shcheulov founded a Ukrainian?s first WAP game
applications developers team, which initially displayed a
?Crawler Games? trademark. Then, a few months later, after
W@pus, SafeBreaker and Russian Roulette had become knows to
users, team purchased qplaze.com domain and changed its
name to ?Qplaze? - mobile development."
b. Price range of a game written for a mobile phone
And I quote from an e-mail reply, "...We develop games under all most
popular terminals at the price of 2.500 dollars."
c. URL
http://www.qplaze.com
d. Contact information
Andrey Baranovsky
President and CEO Qplaze TM,
VCS Company in Ukraine
WWW: http://www.qplaze.com
E-mail: ac@qplaze.com
That concludes my answer.
I hope this satisfies your inquiry and I look forward to future
requests.
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