A 3D mobile game
J2ME game source
Billing system

For this project I've decided to do something a little bit more ambitious (mainly to keep myself interested). Inbetween doing a bit of contract work I've started to make a 3D engine. I'm going to try and keep it flexible but my aim is to make a fun 3D racing game so I may stear down this path from time to time. Also for the time being, this will be aimed at Sony Ericsson mobiles that support mascot capsule athough I may do a JSR184 version later.
For some time now I've been familiarising myself with mascot capsule and have created a couple of demos, mainly to teach myself the basics such as camera orientation, blending, particle stuff etc. As a starting point to anyone else wanting to learn 3D for mobiles I'd check out the Sony Ericsson Developer Site

Other useful links:
Blender3D A free package that you can use to create your objects
Blender Plug-in so you can export objects in .bac format
Mascot Tools that you will need to convert bac file to mbac

To the left is a track that I made on blender3d. When I exported it and saved as an mbac file it was a whopping 43k. Couldnt fit many of those in a game, but it served its purpose. I wanted to see how fast it could be displayed on a mobile with the camera moving around under user control. On the whole I was pretty impressed to see it wizz along at 15fps while going along a road and 12fps when going through a tunnel using a SonyE k700i.

With those results in mind I should be able to create a decent 3D racing game hopefully with a few opponents rather than a race against time game.

I've been working on a billing system to allow users to unlock demos of games from with the game, effectively trying a game before buying. Hopefully it means a demo can be given away on any site and if the mobile user likes the game then they can pay for it there and then with as little hassle as possible. Currently works as follows:-

1. Download a demo
2. Exit the game and a purchase screen is displayed
3. Choose your location and confirm payment
4. Allow the game to send an SMS
5. Restart the game and allow payment to be validated. The full game will now be unlocked.

It may take a minute or two for the payment to be processed.
At present there are 10 countries available with more to come soon.

Demos of Absorbed and Dark Horde now have this payment screen available.

Future mobile games from PCG will also be released as browser games starting with Dirt Racers.

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