[casual_games] Casual Game Framework

[Mark Ripley]

Gridrunner's a special case I'm afraid, as it's a port of a rather  
intensive PC game. The others support the majority of handsets -  
midp1 and midp2.  In fact, it's a lot easier these days as devs are  
dropping support for nasties like s40v1, the sharps, any siemens.

My point was it *can* be done, and has been done by most devs,  
without selling snake oil ;)

Mark Ripley
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On May 31, 2007, at 8:42 PM, Tom Hubina wrote:


> An API abstraction isn't really the hardest part ... it's the  

> difference in user interface, gameplay, etc that is required to  

> make a quality commercial title that is able to compete for the top  

> slots on the mobile carriers and casual game portals. If you just  

> want to make something that simply "runs on both", you can do that.  

> If you want to make something that's competitive, you're looking at  

> a much different animal.

>

> As for "across all the required handsets" ... Gridrunner has about  

> 5% of the total "required" handsets, and doesn't have BREW or WIPI  

> (and only a few US J2ME handsets for that matter). It also is only  

> dealing with two out of the dozen or so screen sizes and doesn't  

> appear to have support for 64k and 128k download size limits. Also,  

> I notice that the handsets with slower processors and low heaps  

> (like the Motorola RAZR) aren't in the list either. OK - it's not  

> as bad as only supporting PDAs, but most of these phones typically  

> fall under the "smartphone" category I mentioned before, which  

> makes up a pretty miniscule portion of the US/EU market. I'm also  

> curious how much testing has been done on the handsets that are  

> listed because I'm familiar with sound bugs in at least a few of  

> them that frequently requires different code for different handsets  

> in that list (emulator testing doesn't count).

>

> I'm sorry, but it is misleading to call something "quite easy" when  

> you're only doing a tiny fraction of the work that needs to be done.

>

> Tom

>

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