« I don't care if it... | Main | AOL in the Java ME... »
 20080211 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.

[Java ME and J2ME] ( February 11, 2008 04:58 PM ) Permalink Comments [2]


Comments:

Is there a JavaME version of Solitaire? Thanks.

Posted by W. Wayne Liauh on February 11, 2008 at 06:58 PM PST #

Hi Wayne,

Here's a good Java ME Solitaire game:

http://www.getjar.com/products/14532/SpiderSolitaire

Hinkmond

Posted by Hinkmond Wong on February 12, 2008 at 10:29 AM PST #

Post a Comment:

Comments are closed for this entry.



Theme originally based on design by Bryan Bell