Monday February 11, 2008 New York Times reports on Java ME games
The New York Times has an article about Java ME games for cell phones staging another attempt at a surge (a demand surge, not troop surge!). Will it be the Nokia N-Gage, Apple iPhone, or Google Android phone that spurs more users to download and play Java ME games? It's anyone's guess, but every year it gets better. See: Java ME Game Surge, Not Troop Surge Here's a quote: Though cellphones featuring Java software necessary to run quality video games have been on the market for several years, analysts say users have stopped short of paying extra to download games... “The games have been truly atrocious,” he said. “They’ve been cut-down, poorly functional versions of what you would see” on smaller game-only consoles like Sony’s PSP.Maybe instead of all these terrible, sucky driving games and puzzle games, someone should come up with cooler game ideas--like run an obstacle course and try to deploy your Java ME game at different wireless carriers, with different levels of difficulty: Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and the grand-daddy of them all: AT&T. :-) Good luck. |
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