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News Release from: TTPCom
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 September 2002
Elite games join mobile gaming platform
Elite Systems is the latest developer to offer games for TTPCom's Wireless Graphics Engine (WGE)
The agreement makes Elite's entire games catalogue available to mobile phone manufacturers and operators, either as embedded or downloadable content. WGE enables users to play sophisticated games of a standard only previously found on games consoles. Elite, a specialist developer of games for hand-held, mobile and wireless systems gained significant success in the 1980s through groundbreaking games for home computers.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 September 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company has developed over 75 game titles including Paperboy, for which it received "Game of the Year" from the British software industry, and BombJack, a title that has sold over 300,000 copies.
Tony Milbourn, TTPCom's Managing Director, stated, "Our Wireless Graphics Engine is one of the ways in which we enable our handset customers to differentiate their products from their competitors.
We are receiving significant positive feedback on WGE games because they represent such a step forward from the mobile games that are currently available".
He continued "Elite are one of the most established and recognisable brands in the gaming industry and having their games available on the WGE platform is a significant boost to our handset customers.
Users can access some of the best games in the industry".
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Steve Wilcox, Elite's cofounder, commented, "We are offering our games titles via TTPCom's WGE platform because we believe that their technology best represents the Elite games experience.
With multiple key presses, which allow you to move and shoot at the same time, and with several layers of graphics, the gaming experience is very rewarding.
Furthermore, TTPCom's technology has been developed with the games developer in mind, so we can port existing games to WGE enabled phones within a very short timescale.
BombJack was transferred to the WGE platform in just 3 days".
WGE's small memory footprint makes it ideal for integration in all mass-market handsets.
The WGE Games application is written in C++, the standard language used by application software developers.
A new version of TTPCom's free software development kit (SDK v1.0) is available for games developers wishing to create games for the WGE platform.
This can be downloaded from TTPCom's developer website: www.9dots.net.
To date there have been over 1000 downloads of the kit, which includes a PC based hardware emulator, a complete toolkit, sample applications, templates and full documentation.
Catering for the increasing use of colour graphics on mobiles, the SDK also offers palette-based graphics support, an integrated graphics converter, bitmap manipulation utility and dynamic emulation of different display technologies from 2 to 32bit/pixel.
TTPCom works with over 30 handset manufacturers worldwide and recently announced Korean manufacturers LG Electronics and Innostream as the first licensees of the WGE platform.
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