Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Games
By Michael Juntao Yuan2005-04-13
Resources
• The Austin Game Conference is a premier game conference that attracts many leading mobile developers and executives.
• J2ME overview is an overview article on the design and architecture of J2ME. Links to Sun's J2ME resources and tools are available from that page.
• The BREW developer site has information and tools for BREW developers.
• " J2ME 101 " (developerWorks, November 2003) is a series of basic tutorials on J2ME/MIDP application development.
• In Roaming charges: Taken with BREW (developerWorks, September 2004) Larry Loeb discusses the pros and cons of Qualcomm's certification system, then taste tests BREW's highly caffeinated code for himself.
• Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications (Addison-Wesley and Nokia, 2004), by Michael Yuan and Kevin Sharp, is a book on how to develop and optimize J2ME applications for the Nokia Series 40 devices. It covers the characteristics of Series 40 devices and techniques to scale the application for other Nokia devices.
Tutorial Pages:
» Thoughts from the 2004 Austin Game Conference
» The Big Picture
» Appeasing the Operators
» Choosing the Right Platform
» Porting, Porting, Porting ...
» In Conclusion
» Resources
First published by IBM DeveloperWorks
