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Mobile Multiplayer Gaming, Part 3: Multiplayer Games With Bluetooth

Category: Software and Web Development, Networking and Communications

Tags: mobile gaming, bluetooth, mobile devices, computing, java, network

Overview The focus of the mobile gaming industry, centers on the wide-area wireless capabilities of mobile devices. The ability to connect to anywhere in the world is what defines the wireless computing revolution. But gaming is fundamentally a social phenomenon, and it makes sense that one would want to challenge players within earshot. The casual, handheld, and immediately accessible nature of the mobile Java gaming platform makes it a natural fit for ad hoc network gaming with the people around. Today, many mobile devices now include local-area connectivity capabilities in the form of Bluetooth wireless technology. As the user sees, adding Bluetooth support to a Java application is a clear and straightforward process.

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Publisher: Sun Microsystems
File Format: HTML
Date Published: Nov 7, 2007
Format: White Papers
Topics: Bluetooth, Java, Software Engineering

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