Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Game Programming Success is made easy with this book.:

Finally! Ive been trying to learn how to program sprite based 2d games for a awhile now, but have not found real common sense explanations or tutorials, until i got this book. Wells explains everything in such a way that it makes you both laugh and understand his instructions at the same time.

He shows you how to program MIDP games exactly the way I would want someone to teach me, down to earth mixed with a little geek humor, which if your reading this book you will relate to.

Its takes you from basic... more info

Excellent! The best book on J2ME development by far.:

Up until now I've found a complete lack of any good books on developing games for J2ME. I previously purchased MicroJava Game Development but found it simplistic and too broad (who cares about WAP???). J2ME Game Development absolutely blew me away. This is 800 pages of some of the best game development text I've seen. That's not just J2ME development, but 2D games in general... the coverage is brilliant.

The beginning of the book provides a solid introduction to J2ME/MIDP and then shows how to create a... more info

95% MIDP 1.0, only 5% MIDP 2.0:

If you want to write a MIDlet for MIDP 1.0 then this is the book for you. The book has very detailed coverage of J2ME MIPD 1.0. I have been waiting for this book to come out (original release date was January 2004) for a long time now in hopes that I would finally have a good MIDP 2.0 reference. There are already plenty of 1.0 books available. I realize that 2.0 was only released last year and there are only a handful of 2.0 capable devices available. However, as I said, there are already plenty of 1.0... more info

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