| Mobile game market: | | | | market for mobile games, sell only Chinese ported |
| The mobile gaming market is growing very fast and it | | | | models. Meaning, the text in the application or the |
| will capture the market of pc games soon. Day by | | | | game should be in their local language. Many other |
| day, game developers are increasing in this field | | | | countries prefer such kind of localizations as the target |
| because of the increasing mobile phone users all | | | | customers prefer these languages. |
| around the world. | | | | Different carrier porting |
| Mobile Game Porting: | | | | There are different carriers each have a different |
| Why the term porting did come into mobile game | | | | terms and conditions to the mobile applications and |
| development field? The main reason was the number | | | | mobile games. The carriers decide what devices it |
| of mobile phone models, mobile phone manufacturers | | | | supports and what data services are offered to its |
| and different languages for mobile device. A new | | | | subscribers. Carriers only support a specific platform |
| developed mobile game's market depends on the | | | | like J2me or BREW. The most important choices to |
| number of models covered as the target customers | | | | make at the beginning of the development process |
| are huge when covering a large number of mobile | | | | are on which mobile software platforms this game |
| models. The following are the types of ports which are | | | | should run. |
| usually undertaken by developers. | | | | Methods of porting: |
| Type of porting: | | | | Internal porting |
| Platform porting | | | | Outsource the mobile game porting |
| Porting into different mobile phone models | | | | Internal Porting |
| Localizations porting | | | | If the developers do the porting then they have strong |
| Different carriers porting | | | | relationship with carriers and device manufacturers |
| Platform porting | | | | around the world for needed to ensure the availability |
| There are two main platforms for mobile devices | | | | of the necessary information. The global testing |
| which most developer concentrate are J2me and | | | | facilities are needed to be able to load applications |
| Brew. Most developer use J2ME as the number of | | | | onto the actual devices and test them. The |
| models that support this platform is very high when | | | | frequencies and network protocols of wireless |
| compared to the other. Brew and Python come next | | | | networks in various parts of the world often differ |
| in this list. If a developer wants to develop an | | | | from a local network. In internal porting they will cover |
| applications or games and release it world wide then | | | | only some number of mobile models. |
| they will have to port it to other languages for covering | | | | Outsource the mobile game porting |
| all markets. | | | | The main reasons for outsourcing the mobile game |
| Porting into different mobile phone models | | | | porting are given bellow: |
| Mobile phone models are increasing day by day, and | | | | 1. It is highly reduce the cost of the products. |
| developers keep added them to their database for | | | | 2. Porting into large number of mobile phone models. |
| porting. Since customers who buy new mobile models | | | | 3. Non Risky field. |
| buy more games, most of new models are the first | | | | 4. Time management and quality control. |
| target for developer. | | | | 5. These works are doing by experts of this field. |
| Localizations porting | | | | For these benefits the mobile game developer's or |
| The term localizations porting mean changing the | | | | application developer's products would be cover the |
| language in the application or game. For Example | | | | hole world marketing very easily and quickly. |
| Chinese market which is considered the biggest | | | | |