In the 1980s, people flocked to arcades to play Pacman, Space Invaders, Frogger, Donkey Kong, and other games. These classics are still fun to play: If you’ve never played one of these arcade games, ...

Let’s look at the most important package you’ll be dealing with when writing games with Mobile Internet Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0: the package javax.microedition.lcdui.game. In this chapter, I show ...

Farnham, UK--For years, Java programmers who wanted to create cool, adrenaline-fueled games had to give up Java for C, C++, or even assembly language--or program around Java's unacceptable frame rates ...