About the Game Designer

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The Game Designer provides a visual interface to the Mobile Game API package defined in JSR-178 and enables you to create games for MIDP 2.0 enabled devices.

The following APIs are featured in the :

You can see how the Mobile Game APIs are used by looking at the sample game included with the IDE. The sample game includes the basic elements necessary for creating new games in addition to demonstrating how to implement these resources. To open the sample game application do the following:

  1. Choose File > New Project. This opens the New Project wizard.
  2. Under Categories, choose Samples > Mobility > MIDP. Under Projects, choose Simple Game created with Game Builder.
  3. Choose a name and location for the project.
  4. Select an emulator platform and click Finish.

The IDE also includes a Game Designer file template that makes it easy to create MIDP games. To open the Visual Game Design file template do the following:

  1. Choose File > New File. This opens the New File wizard.
  2. Select the project you want to add the new game template file to from the drop down menu.
  3. Under Categories, choose MIDP. Under File Types choose Visual Game Design.
  4. Choose a MIDP Class Name and name the Package. Click Finish.

To learn more about using the Game Designer to create MIDP 2.0 games see:

For more information about the Java ME Gaming API, see:

See Also
Game Builder Tasks: Quick Reference

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