Mobile Game

LAB-6400: Create Your Own Mobile Game

JavaOne Hands-On Lab
LAB-6400 Create Your Own Mobile Game
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems

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LAB-6400: Create Your Own Mobile Game
Expected duration: 120 minutes
Contacts: Lukas Hasik and Fabiola Rios Last Updated: April 17, 2008 NetBeans Mobility6.0.1 introduced various tools for Mobile applications including new Visual Designer as well as Game Builder. Both allows you to visually develop Java ME applications and games for various MIDP-2.0-compliant mobile devices. In this lab, participants will use the Game Builder to create a mobile game. They will create the menu for managing the application and also the game itself. NetBeans MobilePack helps you with connecting your game to an enterprise solution through J2ME Web Services API (JSR 172) for exchanging various data. In this hands-on lab session, developers will gain an experience with the successful tools, technologies and the best practices to seamlessly build mobile game application using the Java ME and Java EE technologies. The result of the hands on lab will be a realworld mobile game which you can take with you in your mobile phone.

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Prerequisites
This hands-on lab assumes you have some basic knowledge or programming experience on the following technologies. MIDP/CLDC development Mobile Media API (JSR 135) Web Services API (JSR 172)

System Requirements
Supported OS: Windows Vista/ XP, Solaris 10 x86/x64,Linux,Ubuntu7.x. Memory requirement: 512MB minimum, 1GB recommended Disk space requirement: 650MB minimum, 1GBrecommended Processor requirement: minimum 800 MHz Intel Pentium III workstation, recommended 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent JVM requirement: JDK 1.5_0 or higher

Software needed for the lab
Please download and install the following set of software. If you have any questions on installation, please feel free to send questions to the email alias mentioned below. Download and installNetBeans IDE 6.0.1 ALL version, it includes all the Netbeans packs and bundles application server. Select your platform and language at the download page

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Download and unzip lab file (under a directory of your choice) Read /index.html to proceed

Notations used in this documentation
It is the installation directory of NetBeans IDE with MobilityPack For Windows, the default is C:\Program Files\netbeans-6.0.1 For Linux, the default is ~/netbeans-6.0.1 - directory where you installed Sun Java System Application Server (or glassfish) - directory into which lab zip file is unzipped This document uses to denote the directory under which you have unzipped the lab zip file of this handson lab. The name of the lab zip file of this handson labis 6400_mobilegame.zip. Once you unzipped the lab zip file under , it will create a subdirectory calledmobilegame. For example, under Windows, if you have unzipped the lab zip file in the root of drive E:\, it will create E:\mobilegame. Under Linux if you have unzipped the lab zip file in the /home/sang directory, it will create /home/sang/mobilegame directory

Lab exercises
Exercise ExerciseExercise Exercise Exercise 0: Install and configure the lab environment 1: Creating a MIDP application using visual tools 2: Create the game 3: Logic of the game 4: Make it connected

Resources
Lab presentation Mobile Applications Learning Trail

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