Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Ideaworks3D said that they are extending the capabilities of the OMAP Gaming Platform to support the OpenKODE 1.0 specification, addressing market targeting feature phones to high-end multimedia handsets. The company claims that this platform will be one of the first in the industry to incorporate the OpenKODE Khronos Open Development Environment to further simplify the development and deployment of new games across multiple mobile phone segments, creating a larger market opportunity for game publishers.
The Ideaworks3D Airplay SDK is optimized to take advantage of TI’s OMAP2430 and OMAPV1030 processor capabilities, while maintaining cross-platform portability. The SDK on TI’s OMAP2430 processor takes advantage of hardware-enabled 3D graphics to provide a premium gaming experience. The Airplay SDK on TI’s OMAPV1030 processor utilizes software graphics renderers to enable compelling casual games for the feature phone market. Both platforms exceed the performance guidelines being defined in a mobile gaming white paper currently under development by the Open Mobile Alliance Games Services working group. The platform will scale to support future standards such as OpenGL ES 2.0 with TI’s OMAP 3 product family.
Alex Caccia, CEO, Ideaworks3D, said, "Game developers will see dramatic reductions in development costs by utilizing the TI and Ideaworks3D gaming platform. We have found that game developers can achieve up to 60 percent cost savings for development and porting of mobile games using Airplay SDK on TI’s OMAP and OMAP-Vox platforms."
Avner Goren, marketing director of Texas Instruments cellular systems solutions, stated, "Support for open standards including OpenKODE, OpenGL ES and the OMA mobile gaming white paper is important to advance the development of mobile games. We view these open standards as vital to the success of the mobile gaming market and TI will continue to enhance the mobile gaming platform with Ideaworks3D to help developers quickly deliver new and compelling games to market."
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