Ultimate Game Design : Building game worlds

FIGURE 9-4
SlideNmatch puzzle game by Magnet Island, Inc.
C H A P T E R 9
a developer located in the United States is building games for cell phones only available
in Asia? You have no access to the carriers while sitting with the phone in the United
States, so the phone hardware must be shipped back and forth to make changes to
game content. This is not a very effective development route.
It’s important to consider which kinds of games work well so far for the cell phone
handset. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but games that tend to work well
include the following:
� Low-intensity shooters Performance-related issues determine the speed or
intensity of a shooter game. Don’t expect the same kind of experience available
on a Gameboy Advance just yet. Remember that the Gameboy Advance is
a portable platform with custom-engineered hardware built specifically for
running games. Cell phone handsets simply can’t blast sprites on the screen
and move them around with great speed (like a Gameboy Advance). In short,
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