BlueGame - A bluetooth enabled multi-player and multi-platform game: An experience report

摘要

Computer games on mobile devices including cellular phones or handheld computers have become a fast expanding industry due to the recent advance in hardware and software supports. Most large mobile game and handheld vendors mainly focus on improving the interactivity and visual effects of, commonly single-user, mobile games. In this project, we carefully designed and then implemented an interactive multi-player action game, namely the BlueGame, transferrable between different computing platforms supported by the Bluetooth wireless technology. In addition to individual user's convenience to continue the multi-player game, our BlueGame prototype highlighted certain shortcomings of the existing Bluetooth technology, and more importantly our valuable experience gained for future wireless game development. ©2006 IEEE.