Creating Mobile Games

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Getting Started

   Pages 1-19

3. Using MIDlets

   Pages 21-51

4. Using the MIDP 2 Games API

   Pages 53-94

5. Using Threads and Media

   Pages 95-129

6. Storing and Retrieving Data

   Pages 131-192

7. Using Network Communications

   Pages 193-262

8. Advanced Messaging and Data Access

   Pages 263-303

9. Securing Your Applications

   Pages 305-316

10. The Mobile 3D Graphics API

    Pages 317-350

11. Adding a Professional Look and Feel

    Pages 351-407

12. Back Matter

    Pages 409-416

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Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone is a practical build-it-yourself mobile Java games book with lots of complete working code and advice:

• Shows you how to create a basic game and make it a professional one (by adding a pro look-and-feel by writing your own menus or using the open source J2ME Polish, and enabling marketing/billing from your own web site)
• Demonstrates Wireless Messaging and other optional APIs (using SMS, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game)
• Covers MIDP3

• Java
• graphics
• marketing
• messaging

Carol Hamer received her Ph.D. in number theory from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Since then, she has worked as a software engineer for 10 years in the U.S., France, and Switzerland, including three years working for In-Fusio Mobile Games. Carol has written three books on mobile game programming for Apress: J2ME Games with MIDP2, Creating Mobile Games, and Learn BlackBerry Games Development. She writes a blog called A Little Bitty Java (http://bittyjava.wordpress.com) with programming ideas, troubleshooting tips, and code samples.

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