Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Matt Verran" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Hello everyone (anyone?) - off topic but... Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 09:34:37 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.18.16.10 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1478 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 > How is everyone? Hope you are all well, etc. I'm alright! > Slightly off topic - has anyone used their skills to have a go at J2ME > gaming? My career is reaching an all time low at the moment (documenting > MIS reports) so I'm thinking of jacking it all in and going into independant > development. I've had a little look at J2ME stuff, and Brew. It seems like a very difficult market to get going in to me, especially if you have no contacts to start from. The main problem is that you can't offer a single game to network operators, in fact publishers won't even take a single game, you need to sell to an aggregator company. The amount you make off a game is very small, profits filter thru network operator to publisher to aggregator to you. So you need to make a lot of games as fast as possible. Plus there is the problem of all the different phone platforms and their buggy J2ME implementations. Saying that it might be something you could have a go at in your spare time. Or there's the independant PC game market which is growing really fast at the mo with the arrival of the big portals ( Real Arcade ). This is a good place to lurk and learn more: http://forums.indiegamer.com/ Let us know how you get on MattV