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20070730 Monday July 30, 2007

Still a kickin', with loads-a-money: Java ME Gaming

Java ME is reported to be still growing in the Mobile Gaming space. People keep playing more Java ME games on their cell phones.

See:

Lots of money in Java ME

Here's a quote: 

 1. Loadsamoney
 Despite a wobble in 2006 when 
 a market dip was predicted, 
 "analysts are predicting strong 
 market growth," said Dredge, 
 pointing out that Gartner was 
 predicting a $9.6bn value of 
 the mobile market by 2011.
The games are starting to get more networked now too, with something cool showing up on the radar: User-Generated Java ME Games. Upload your own images to have embedded into a Java ME game. Cool! Or, you can upload images of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears if you'd like. That would be an interesting game: Meltdown! :-)

[Java ME and J2ME] ( July 30, 2007 08:55 AM ) Permalink Comments [3]

Comments:

Okay, I'm confused..

I was all set to use this article to justify J2ME development in the company.. and hopefully it was going to talk about how Java gaming was growing, as you stated in the lead-in to the link.

However, the article doesn't talk at all about Java in any way. It only talks about the mobile gaming space in general (not even broken down by platform). Do you have any references that specifically call out J2ME's growth?

In fact, the article linked talked about a trend that speaks to the exact opposite: #13, "Going Native". If this is a hot trend, then it spells some problems for J2ME, no?

Help! I need some justification for J2ME on the mobile handset! :-)

Posted by marcbot on July 30, 2007 at 09:44 AM PDT #


Hi Marc,

Unfortunately, when people talk about "Mobile Gaming", they imply Java ME technology and do not spell it out, since Java ME outpaces BREW and Symbian for programming cell phone games.

So, you have to read in between the lines in the article. Here's a reference:

See: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Mobile/feature.asp?c=1266

Quote: 

 Nearly all of the mobile phone games 
 available for sale in the UK are 
 Java titles, so much so that Java 
 games aren't usually labelled as 
 such. Despite this, you'll rarely 
 encounter Java directly, apart from 
 the odd loading logo – a situation 
 that's the same for all of the 
 platforms talked about here. Even 
 though it's essential for your games 
 to run, it stays hidden, working 
 behind-the-scenes.
Hope this helps!

Hinkmond

Posted by Hinkmond Wong on July 30, 2007 at 01:18 PM PDT #

It does help -- thanks for the extra info! :-)

Posted by marcbot on July 30, 2007 at 01:51 PM PDT #

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