NEW DELHI: Sun Microsystems has announced that it is teaming up with Paradox Studios Pvt. Ltd, a Reliance group company to boost the market for gaming in India and further propagate the adoption of J2ME amongst the Indian gaming developer community.

The mutually beneficial tie-up will see Sun partnering with Paradox Studios, a game development company on technology innovations for the gaming industry as well as opening up global markets for Paradox to further propagate their J2ME based games.

Sun Microsystems India, Director for Telecom, Kapil Sood said, "Using Java technology for game development means faster time to market, instant cross-platform portability, fewer bugs to contend with and the promise to open new revenue streams with networked games built for Java technology-enabled mobile phones, consoles and PDAs. Through these industry alliances Sun is helping to create a world of connectivity where people can play whenever and wherever they wish, through a network computing infrastructure that scales to support millions of simultaneous users across a variety of devices."

"This tie-up with Sun will help us to leverage Sun's vast technical expertise in helping gaming developers across the world as well as opening up new markets for Paradox across the world," said Paradox Studios, CEO, Anurag Khurana.

"The Java environment is brilliant for providing stability and enabling people to have access from a multitude of devices, enabling developers to reach much larger audiences than ever before without having to port applications. There is an industry-wide movement towards Java technology-based game development and we believe that our partnership with Sun would immensely benefit this fast growing industry in India" Khurana added.

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