Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone (Technology in Action)
Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone is a practical build-it-yourself mobile Java games book with lots of complete working code and advice: Shows you how to create a basic game and make it a professional one (by adding a pro look-and-feel by writing your own menus or using the open source J2ME Polish, and enabling marketing/billing from your own web site) Demonstrates Wireless Messaging and other optional APIs (using SMS, P
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Modern Mobile Games
Mobile games are the games that are run on mobile devices with less compatible with most mobile phones, produced for recreational activities for users all around the world. Among lots of game types, mobile phone manufacturers choose a small group of mobile games to execute on their newly produced mobile devices. The following paragraphs aim at explaining the major use of mobile games and the economy constituted by those.
Several scenarios of modern mobile games are based on the contexts creating the mainframe of PC and console games available in the market. Thanks to the latest improvements in the graphical interfaces mobile phones have been using recently, high quality mobile games can be produced at little cost and served for end users at reasonable prices.
Main themes of old mobile games were board games including backgammon, chess, checkers, and some basic ones originated from old Chinese civilization. On the other hand, mobile phones are as excellent as computer games reasoning textures used in the production phases of such games. Modern mobile games usually offer gamers an effective control over the characters they are playing with. Old versions of FPS and RPG games have already been converted into mobile gaming standard, enhancing the market to a much wider level where almost all types of games on any platform are available for mobile devices, depending on the operating system of the mobile device being used.
Board games are too among the most exciting ones on the mobile platform since it is usually harder to control action keys on small screens as compared to a PSP screen which provides maybe the best resolution for players. Yet, hardness does not mean unpopularity all the time, and in fact this is the main reason why mobile games are this popular among all game players all around the world. For instance, a new version of bowling game was converted into mobile standards and it was after that time that many users including teenagers were addicted to this exciting game on their mobile phones.
Mobile games not only constitute a different level for gamers but also generate a new style of economy that fully depends on mobile game manufacturers. Throughout the evolution era of mobile games in the last 10 years, it has been observed that first snake-feeding games were abandoned for the sake of more fascinating ones including those that provide 3D high quality graphics for gamers. It is also noted that as mobile phone manufacturers develop new ways to produce higher quality software for mobile phones, much better mobile games compatible with the newest features are introduced. Thus, there is an endless revolution in this branch of mobile industry, increasing the hopes of game manufacturers while firing up the wars between console platforms with those planning to support mobile standards in their upcoming versions.
Consequently, mobile games, both old and modern ones, can be considered as the constituents of recreational activities, and the promising effort performed to produce better mobile games is the biggest indicator of the bright future of this industry. As software gets more and more powerful, future standards seem to be a good means of developing more competent mobile games popular and available for gamers all around the world.
The article was produced by Michael Thomson the marketing manager for http://www.schnozberry.com/ – the internet’s premier source for mobile games from genres such as arcade, sport, trivia and board that you can download directly to your mobile phone.
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Review by calvinnme for Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone (Technology in Action)
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This is a pretty good book on creating mobile games for the Java platform. The author does not assume that you already have a working knowledge of the tools involved, so she starts by introducing you to these tools to give you a general idea of what is involved. Next she covers what you must do to set up your computer for Java Micro Edition game development and how to get your games running on an actual target device. Then, once you have your development environment up and running, you can begin building and modifying the book’s examples. The book website at Apress has all of the source code for the examples available for you to download. The author assumes you already know Java programming with Java Standard Edition, and that you already know something about designing a game – this is not a book on the theory of game design. The point of this book is to show you how to do all of this with Java ME. Even multi-player gaming is explored by showing how to write a program for a game of checkers using Java ME. The following is the table of contents:
1. Getting Started 1
2. Using MIDlets 21
3. Using the MIDP 2 Games API 53
4. Using Threads and Media 95
5. Storing and Retrieving Data 131
6. Using Network Communications 193
7. Advanced Messaging and Data Access 263
8. Securing Your Applications 305
9. The Mobile 3D Graphics API 317
10. Adding a Professional Look and Feel 351
You can carry some of the ideas into other types of applications, but this book is very much focused on Java mobile games. For that purpose it is highly recommended.
Review by Aleksander Spektor for Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone (Technology in Action)
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The book is not for the beginners. It contains useful information but I had to browse through some other sources in order to write my first simple game for the cell phone.
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