Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone

Description

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, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game)
• Covers the new MIDP3

Start using the MIDP2 and MIDP3 in the newly open sourced Java ME Games API.

Add a truly professional look-and-feel to your Java ME games.

Use threads, tones, and other media.

Store and retrieve data and enable networking.

Create advanced interactive messaging with optional APIs for multiplayer gaming.

Explore a complete business model for independent developers (distributing their own games) as well as for larger companies.