Game Programming for Mobile Devices

Game Programming for Mobile Devices

Group names Benjamin Aurin
Marcel Beushausen
Ina Böckelmann
Johannes Feige
Florian Fischer
David Kerber


Sebastian Kreissl
Andreas Mann
Andreas Rudolph
Max Sommerfeld
Jonas Widrat



Lecturer

Piotr Milczarski

Target


Develop applications and games with Java ME for Cell phone

Pocket PC

Smartphone

Why Java ME? It’s Java
Cross-platform


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Over 3 billion Java-enabled cell phones More than 100 million Symbian OS phones More than 40 million Palm OS phones About 20 million Microsoft Smartphones

Java ME is powerful enough in many cases

What do we need for Mobile Game Development? Basic Java (C, C#, C++) knowledge
A good tool


◦ NetBeans 6.5 (w/ built-in mobility pack) ◦ Eclipse 3.4.2 + EclipseME 1.7.9

Where do we get NetBeans? www.netbeans.org

How to make an application


consist of instructions and variables

NetBeans offers features to develop an application easier and faster
Like Screen and Flow Designer
Example: a personal weather journal


Screen Designer

Template elements

available commands

Template where data will be put in

Flow Designer Flow of the application

Assignment

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Project Description Develop a simple game with moving blocks
Target of the game is to collect as many points as possible
To get points, you have to avoid the other blocks