Duke's Dancing Partner: Connecting Handheld Game Consoles with Java Technology
TS-4010

The phoneME Feature project (https://phoneme.dev.java.net/content/phoneme_platforms.html#phonemefeature) is Sun's open-source implementation of the CLDC/MIDP platform. phoneME Feature software, PSPKVM and doublevision, has been ported to popular game consoles. PSPKVM (www.pspkvm.org) is a port to the PlayStation Portable, and doublevision (http://doublevision.sourceforge.net/) is for the Nintendo DS.

This presentation shows you how game devolopers can develop multiplayer online games with Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) and deploy them on these popular handheld game consoles. Due to the various differences in these gaming platforms, playing multiplayer games between these popular console brands has been impossible and porting efforts can be time-consuming and costly. However, by leveraging the Java ME platform, we can, for the first time, enable game developers to develop games for these game consoles without significant porting effort.

The session includes a demonstration of a simple multiplayer Java technology-based game running on PSP and NDS with Project Darkstar (www.projectdarkstar.com) as the game server. It also shows how to create Darkstar game artifacts with the NetBeans IDE.

This session is for attendees who are interested in developing multiplayer Java ME technology-based games for handheld game consoles and the Darkstar game server or in learning about porting phoneME Feature software to a new platform.