A hello to all at Forum Nokia. This happens to be my first blog post, so I hope to share a little about myself and my work.

To introduce myself, my name is Mariam Dholkawala, a games developer based out of Mumbai, India. Professionally I am a Founder and Technical Head of a gaming startup called IGameStudio.com. Personally I manage my own blog which talks about all the happenings in the mobile world.

I may not have always been involved with the mobile platform for game development, but it was the launch of the Adobe Flash Lite player for mobiles that got me interested. Since then, I have contributed to various community activities for both Adobe and Forum Nokia. To sum up some of my contributions -

• Adobe India Community Champion
• Adobe Community Expert - Mobiles and Devices
• Advisory Board of the Adobe Mobiles and Devices Learning Resources Program
• IndiMaD User Group Manager - India Adobe Mobiles and Devices User Group
• Award Winner at 3 Flash Lite Game Contests
• Contributor to Technical Articles on the Adobe Mobiles and Devices Devnet
• Speaker at various conferences
• Contributor on the Forum Nokia Discussion Boards and Wiki 

Now after 4 years and loads of games on the mobile platform, I would say it has been a fairly exciting journey and hope it just gets better as Adobe powers the Flash Lite player and Nokia comes out with even more powerful handsets with better Flash Lite interaction.

To sum up this post, I would say it is great to see Flash Lite rocking on Nokia phones making Forum Nokia a hub to interact with co-developers/peers on Flash Lite and various other technologies :) I hope to keep posting about my experiences of Flash Lite with the S60 and S40 platforms over the weeks.

Mariam