A Look at Java 3D Programming for Mobile Devices

An anonymous reader writes "IBM developerworks is running an article that describes the Mobile 3D Graphics API and introduces you to 3D programming for Java mobile devices. Sony's PSP has shown the graphics power you can put into a mobile device and mobile gaming. Although the average mobile phone is technologically behind this specialized game machine, Java seems to be helping to drive the market in a very definite direction."

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Re:3D Handsets

[mwvdlee]

OMFG! 3D Extreme Bowling. That is just SOOOOO much better than Mr. Do and Snake.

Seriously, these games look like something a Sega Genesis would be able to do.

IMHO, the only games that really work on mobile phones are games which do not require any timed action, because the controls on phones just totally suck! This still leaves a lot of genres like RPG's, turn-based (and perhaps slow real-time) strategy games, puzzle games, adventures and board games, sims (think tamagotchi/nintendogs), yet we see VERY little of those. Odd, considering the vast majority of phone users (even the fanatical phone users) are not typical gamers with typical gamer tastes.