J2ME Games With MIDP2 Carol Hamer
Publisher: Apress

Author: Jason Lam; Format: PDF download, with source; Price: free. This book is about programming with J2ME on wireless devices with focus on developing games. Some months ago I did an exhaustive research on books about J2ME + MIDP1.0. I'm currently developing a game using J2ME SDK 3.0. It is ready to build projects for MIDP 1 and MIDP 2 as well as specific versions for Nokia. I ran into the following problem: I want to be able to rotate a sprite in about 8 to 12 positions, but the Sprite-class only offers 4 rotation positions. Optional APIs (using SMS, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game) * Covers the new MIDP3 What you'll learn * Start using the MIDP2 and MIDP3 in the newly open sourced Java ME Games API. It is excerpted from J2ME Games with MIDP2, written by Carol Hamer (Apress, 2004; ISBN 1590593820). Java Games And Application For Cell phone. The template is a Netbeans project that can be used as a base to build a J2ME game or application. So this seems to be a pessimistic article about J2me, especially regarding the fact that I invested so much in this technology (I've been in MIDP2 expert group, as well as MIDP3 one). Get ready to create your own J2ME game! This article will help get started; soon, you'll be well on your way to building your first game. Much like FlashLite2, AJAX on mobile devices has a really long ways to go before the match up with the capabilities currently in J2ME MIDP2.0, let alone the upcoming MIDP3.0. J2ME is used for mobile game development. Again, J2me is still the leading technlogy in terms of installed base, but in term of usage and application, the gap is not as big. Comment by Ivan Lazarte — March 27, 2006. Otherwise, it's just a standard php webapp, like usual. So the game is quite open, iPhone/Androïd deployment will increase this year, and I am sure that others technology will emerge. My cousin recently got a decent feature-phone with a full qwerty keyboard. Reblog this post [with Zemanta].