Games and Mobile Phone

Exploiting Seams in Mobile Phone Games

Seamful design is a novel approach to Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing systems that reveals and exploits inevitable technical limitations and boundaries as well as their effects on seamless interaction rather than hiding them. In this paper we want to introduce its general ideas, point out common seams on the mobile phone platform and show how people might accommodate to seams and use them for t...

Mobile Phone User Interfaces in Multiplayer Games

This study focuses on the user interface elements of mobile phones and their qualities in multiplayer games. Mobile phone is not intended as a gaming device. Therefore its technology has many shortcomings when it comes to playing mobile games on the device. One of those is the non-standardized user interface design. However, it has also some strengths, such as the portability and networked natu...

Mobile phone games: Understanding the user experience

What Motivates Users to Play Mobile Phone Games More?

The literature review suggests that a high quality of system and service, which mobile phone games should provide, appear to be a critical determinant of not only user satisfaction but also the motivation to spend more time and play more games. However, not many past studies in IS have shown much interest in the issues about the effects of the quality of system and service that mobile phone gam...

Mobile Phone 3D Games with OpenGL ES 2.0

The goal of this master's project was to investigate the possibility of creating a visually advanced 3D game for mobile phones with the use of the OpenGL ES 2.0 library. It also had the intention of evaluating how game and shader development is affected by the performance and design limitations of the platform. A 3D game engine as well as a game prototype was developed on top of a OpenGL ES 2.0...