Fathammer Announces Commercial Availability of X-Forge, 3D Game Engine for Mobile Devices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. & HELSINKI, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2002 Fathammer today announced the commercial launch and availability of the X-Forge(TM) 3D Game Engine, their premier development product for mobile devices. Fathammer's X-Forge 3D Game Engine provides game developers with the ability to deliver high frame rate, console-quality 3D games with low memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold on a wide variety of wireless PDAs, Smartphones and handheld game devices. The X-Forge 3D Game Engine is built with Fathammer's industry leading X-Forge technology. X-Forge is a cross-platform suite of APIs highly optimized for the technology, form factor and configurations of current and future mobile devices. The game engine is a complete SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). and suite of development tools which allows for rapid development of high quality 3D games. Games developed with X-Forge achieve real-time frame rates and impressive visual quality through optimizations for industry leading mobile technologies. Using familiar game development tools and APIs, developers can reduce development time and budget while focusing on content creation rather than technical barriers. Also, due to Fathammer's continued integration of emerging hardware and standards, developers can quickly have their games running on new mobile devices with a minimal amount of effort. "Exploiting Fathammer's X-Forge technology has tremendous benefits for us. The extensive capabilities of X-Forge and simplicity of cross-platform development allows us to concentrate on the development of great games, not technology," said Jim Siefert, President of Mogility. "We have been able to create demos of our Cosmic Cabbie cab·by or cab·bie n. pl. cab·bies A cabdriver. [cab1 + -y3. game for Nokia Series 60 devices in record time, enabling us to demonstrate advanced capabilities to potential publishers quickly and inexpensively." While X-Forge focuses on the game development process, it remains flexible in supporting publisher defined distribution and billing methods. This includes traditional retail distribution, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and bundling (including embedded games) and distribution via wireless operators, portals and the web. X-Forge(TM) Powered games can also be developed to contain features which enable wireless operators to increase ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average. (average revenue per user) including incremental game content downloads, high score uploading, messaging, etc. "As the leading mobile games publisher, THQ THQ Toy Headquarters THQ Territorial Headquarters THQ Tehsil Headquarters (Pakistan) THQ The Holy Quran THQ Theater Headquarters Wireless is excited about the consumer interest and quality of 3D games that can be created with X-Forge," said Doug Dyer, General Manager of THQ Wireless. "X-Forge Powered games represent the future of mobile gaming and we look forward to publishing games of this quality on current and future generations of mobile devices." Two X-Forge Powered games will be included with the retail launch of the Sony Ericsson For an arrangement of Sony Ericsson products, see list of Sony Ericsson products Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. P800 Smartphone. Stunt Run is an original racing title developed by Vasara Games, the games division of Fathammer. Real physics, compelling track design and a variety of gameplay options provide a unique 3D driving experience for owners of the phone. Sony Pictures Digital Sony Pictures Digital, first known as Columbia TriStar Interactive, then Sony Pictures Interactive Network (or SPiN), is known as the digital website interactive creator for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) that was established in 1997. Entertainment's Men in Black(TM) II: Alien Pursuit places the player in the role of MIB (1) (Management Information Base) The hierarchical database used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP) to describe the particular device being monitored. MIB objects are identified using ASN.1 syntax. See SNMP, RMON, OID and ASN.1. agent hunting down aliens in a real 3D environment. A compelling story line with multiple levels and a variety of weapons immerses the player into a fun, easy to play game. X-Forge is available for licensing by professional game developers worldwide. While X-Forge supports Symbian OS An open standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones (smartphones) from Symbian Ltd., London (www.symbian.com). It supports Java, PC synchronization, Bluetooth local wireless access and GPRS packet-switched data. , Microsoft Pocket PC and Smartphone 2002, Mobile Linux and other popular mobile operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , the initial release focuses on Symbian OS support including Nokia Series 60 and the Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone. "With X-Forge, Fathammer has enabled advanced real-time 3D graphics and gaming capabilities on Symbian OS phones. This is a major step forward in making next generation console quality gaming on mobile devices a reality," said Bill Pinnell, Multimedia & Games Product Manager, Symbian. About Fathammer Fathammer is the leading provider of advanced 3D graphics and game technologies for mobile devices. Fathammer provides its industry acclaimed X-Forge(TM) 3D Game Engine and custom solutions to game publishers and developers, device manufacturers and mobile technology providers. X-Forge Powered games bring console quality 3D games to a wide range of mobile devices. More information can be found at http://www.fathammer.com NOTE TO EDITORS: Screenshots, video footage, logos and interviews are available by contacting pr@fathammer.com * Other names and brands may be claimed as property of others. |
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