Design

Whether you are designing sports cars, furniture, or WAP games, the basic process is always the same. Besides having great ideas, you have to know what the fundamental characteristics of your chosen design area — your limits and opportunities. The Wireless Application Protocol is a standard for delivering content (text, images & hyperlinks) to wi reless devices; from a game designer's point of view this means that both the game content and the game logic must be stored on the server. In addition to technical issues, successful WAP game design requires an understanding of the commercial environment as well. Lasse Seppänen explore the highs and lows of designing successfull mobile games with WAP.