Brew-based Mobile Game Engine Development

With the fast development of computer and mobile phone technologies, mobile phones are not only people communication tools, but only has gradually become a game development platform. Though being under the limitations of computing, RAM, graphics and sound effect, mobile phone has a good future because of the huge user group. Enjoying games while waiting bus and shopping, it is another amusement that modern technologies can offer.Today there are some mobile phone operation systems in which Qualcom's Brew and Sun' s J2ME are two leaders. Both of they have pro and con. Because Brew uses C /C++, it has good speed and save memories. Yet it belongs to Qualcom. On the contrary, J2ME has good portability meanwhile speed is a problem that should be taken in consideration.The first things that this article provides are why mobile phone games are favored, what is Brew. Brew development technologies are introduced afterwards, which includes Brew system structure, SDK, interfaces, compilation and test. Next on the development of engine technology, including what it is the engine, some the engine used memory management, Scripting technology. Then we introduce the focus of this paper : a practical realization of Brew handset game engine. The part includes specialty, framework and flow chart of Brew mobile phone game engine development, management of Memory and maps, Client processing, Script use. Finally, what jobs writer has done and the specialty and shortcomings in this article are introduced.