This is the only book that J2ME developers will ever need to create robust Java games for any microenvironment. Written by two award-winning and Internationally recognized Java micro-game developers. Provides exhaustive coverage of J2ME games, extensions, portable devices and competitive environments. Includes detailed explanation and all code for creating a J2ME game. Micro Java Games Development explains game development for devices that support J2ME MIDP. The six parts cover a full range of topics, from a tour of all available micro-devices (Palms, cell phones and pagers), a discussion of software standards apart from J2ME (cell phones, messaging, I-mode and wireless enhancements such as Bluetooth), and available J2ME extensions (Siemans, Ericcson, Nokia), development tools and restrictions, to the creation of a meaty J2ME game!

Contents

• Introduction
• Small devices
• • The mobile world
  • Big games, small screens

• Before, between, and beyond j2ME
• • Wireless standarts : how data goes to and fro
  • let's talk : instant wireless messaging
  • Wireless in Asia : i-mode and cHTML
  • The wireless landscape

• The java 2 micro edition
• • j2ME overview
  • creating a MIDlet
  • Making the most of limited resources
  • Making the most of It : optimizations

• Let the games begin
• • High-level graphical user interfaces
  • Working with graphics : low-level graphical user interfaces
  • Entering the land of spirit
  • Managing your sprites
  • Sprite movement
  • j2ME audio basics
  • Be persistent : MIDP data storage
  • Connecting out : wireless networking