Mobile Game Development
All the tools used to develop our games are available free on the internet.
The following are links to websites where these tools may be found. Please
support these great products.
GetJar.com
is a J2ME application hosting site that provides us with an easy way to distribute demos
and carry out extensive platform beta testing of our games..
Java Micro Edition and Sun One Studio (Mobile Edition)
In addition to the SDK for the Micro Edition of Java (J2ME) and the
professional development IDE, Sun One Studio (Mobile Edition),
java.sun.com is the best place to find documents and advice on mobile development
using the Java platform.
NetBeans and Mobility Pack
NetBeans is an excellent free IDE for Java development.
The Mobility Plugin transforms it into a top professional mobile development platform.
Proguard
With the limited memory and persistant storage offered by current mobile
devices, a good obfuscator is an essential tool in mobile development. Proguard is our
obfuscator of choice.
Antenna
Antenna is a set of Ant script tasks designed for packaging mobile applications (and performing
all the required intermediate tasks). This too is an essential part of the J2ME developer's toolkit.
Nokia developer forum
Nokia provides excellent tools for developing applications targeted at their
range of handsets, including emulators and an SDK that plugs into most major MIDP IDEs
(including Sun One).
The Gimp
The Gimp is an image editing application with functionality that comes very close to
that of professional packages such as Photoshop.
Tile Studio
With the ability to create tile images, composite tilesets and customized output formats,
Tile Studio is a great level editing tool that is powerful enough to give you everything you need,
and flexible enough to squash it into a format of your choice.
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