Synergenix Interactive has revealed the launch of the new 3D game engine and associated SDK. The mophun 3D engine features a low memory footprint and low processing power requirements, while at the same time offering a comprehensive suite of 3D APIs, directly targeted at quickly and effectively developing mobile 3D games.
The games are compact in size and thus downloadable over the air to the end user’s mobile phone. Included are also features such as enhanced audio, multiplayer capabilities and more. mophun 3D is the first commercially available virtual machine/game engine with complete 3D support.
The 3D engine complements the mophun 2D engine which has been on the market since late 2002. The mophun 2D engine has been pre-installed on entry level mobile telephones, typically targeting the youth market. The much acclaimed Sony Ericsson T300 and T310 models, which have been major successes and by several magazines been named as best choices for mobile gaming, achieve this by using the superior mophun game engine and the vast amount of mophun games available. The mophun engine is also found in the recently launched T610 model from the same company. Following up on this success, mophun 3D adds 3D graphics capabilities to today’s mass market phones as well as feature phones, smartphones and PDAs. The powerful 3D APIs introduced in mophun 3D allows for more advanced and graphically appealing games to be developed, but the mophun 3D engine still maintains full binary backward compatibility with all currently existing mophun games. Owners of mophun 3D enabled handsets will thus have a large number of high quality games to choose from even the day a particular handset is introduced on the market.
About mophun:
Mophun consists of a very efficient game engine/virtual machine that is tailored to run on handheld devices with small displays and limited resources. It is accompanied by a tool suite (SDK) for game development, specially focusing on giving developers short development cycles and short time to market. mophun 2D can be implemented on handsets with 8-bit processors running on 12 MHz
mophun 3D requires 32 bit, 16+ MHz processors, while competing mobile game technologies usually require processing power at least two to three times higher. This means mophun 2D games work very well on today’s existing low end 2G-phones, while mophun 3D runs on today’s 2G, 2.5G and 3G phones as well as PDAs and smartphones. The mophun 3D APIs very closely match the APIs of the proposed Open GL-ES™ standard. mophun 3D will be Open GL-ES™ compliant when the final specification of this standard is available, while at the same time already today offering highly optimized light sources, texture mapping and shading features as well as collision detection and Z-buffering. A sound API supporting WAVE, ADPCM and other of today’s most commonly used sound formats is also available.
Offering true binary portability of games over all devices supporting mophun, mophun has quickly become popular among both professional game developers and mobile network operators. mophun games can be either downloaded Over The Air directly to the phone, or to a computer and then transferred to the phone via infrared (IR) or cable. Synergenix has also created a freely available developer community around the mophun gaming concept, including discussion forums and a virtual marketplace for games.
The mophun technology is today found in the Sony Ericsson T300, T310 and T610 models, with local variations. About Synergenix Interactive
Synergenix Interactive AB is a key enabler in the mobile gaming industry. Its software based gaming console, mophun, offer manufacturers of mobile phones, PDAs and other connected devices both a complement to Java and a faster execution environment, a strong DRM solution that prevents piracy and a professional SDK that makes all games platform independent. The mophun mobile gaming solution can also be delivered to low end, mass-market phones that are not capable of running Java.
Current licensees include Sony Ericsson, Teleca and other still undisclosed players in the mobile phone industry |
