Graphics engine turns cellphone into games console

TTPCom has demonstrated its wireless gaming application (G-WGE) on its InTouch mobile phone platform, achieving a handheld console like experience on a mass-market mobile phone.

TTPCom has demonstrated its wireless gaming application (G-WGE) on its InTouch mobile phone platform, achieving a handheld console like experience on a mass-market mobile phone.

The gaming application runs on TTPCom's revolutionary Wireless Graphics Engine (WGE).

G-WGE is one of three applications that run on the WGE platform.

The other two applications are M-WGE and J-WGE.

M-WGE enables handset manufacturers and developers to rapidly create better looking and more user-friendly 'man-machine interfaces'.

J-WGE accelerates standard Java games for a considerably better user experience.

"With our gaming application, TTPCom is the first to offer a high quality but low cost gaming experience to mobile phone users", explained Gakl Rosset, Head of Technology at TTPCom Denmark.

He continued, "With a footprint of just 45Kbyte, G-WGE is a major breakthrough in mobile gaming, supporting heavy graphical manipulations and multilayered graphics with chromakey transparency as well as optimised blit, zoom, rotate and scale functions".

The G-WGE application is an open platform where any content distributor or developer can write their own games.

The software development kit (SDK) is available online from TTPCom's developer website.

To date there have been over 1000 downloads.

"With an open approach to the development of games on our WGE platform we can ensure that the standard of mobile gaming increases and evolves over time.

Therefore giving the end customer more choice and a better gaming experience", said Gakl Rosset.

TTPCom has signed agreements with 10 established games developers and at present, customers can choose from over 30 games that are available from the 9DOTS catalogue.

These games range from arcade, shoot-em up and platform to gambling and location based games.

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