Jogo de estratégia multi-jogador para telefones celulares

Abstract

The applications for mobile devices have increased their complexity level over the years, resulting in more sophisticated software, like multiplayer games. The inability or absence of robust network connection methods and the non-strongly based state of resources for games development in mobile plataforms is a current problem. In this way, the experience with game development using existing tools is an important topic to continue the evolution of such development area. Surrounded by this scenario, this work intends to raise useful information about J2ME development experience, through the implementation of a real game as a practical use case of the plataform. Based on the experiences resulted of the implementation of the practical use case, this work shows the advantages, disadvantages and characteristics of J2ME, concerning multiplayer games development. This work also compares the advantages and disadvantages of J2ME with other two development platforms, BREW and Flash Lite, intending to improve the J2ME analysis. During the implementation of the use case, optimization techniques are used to reduce the game memory usage; those techniques are focused in image optimization and code obfuscation.