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Follow UsBANGALORE: Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Ideaworks3D are extending the capabilities of the OMAP Gaming platform to support the OpenKODE 1.0 specification, to address a wider market ranging from feature phones to high-end multimedia handsets.
This platform will be one of the first in the industry to incorporate the OpenKODE Khronos Open Development Environment (ODE) to further simplify the development and deployment of new games across multiple mobile phone segments.
The gaming platform includes TI’s OMAP 2 and OMAP-Vox product families. Additionally, the offering spans both accelerated and non-accelerated 3D graphics solutions using a common development and deployment environment through Ideaworks3D’s Airplay software.
The Ideaworks3D Airplay SDK is optimized to for TI’s OMAP2430 and OMAPV1030 processor capabilities, while maintaining cross-platform portability. The SDK on TI’s OMAP2430 processor can tap into hardware-enabled 3D graphics to provide a premium gaming experience.
“Game developers will see dramatic reductions in development costs by utilizing the TI and Ideaworks3D gaming platform,” said Alex Caccia, CEO, Ideaworks3D. “We have found that game developers can achieve up to 60 per cent cost savings for development and porting of mobile games using Airplay SDK on TI’s OMAP and OMAP-Vox platforms.”
One of the benefits of the TI and Ideaworks3D solution is that it changes the current mobile gaming development process by allowing developers to create one game binary which runs on leading open operating systems, including Symbian OS, Linux and Microsoft Windows Mobile. This enables the same code to run on a range of handsets with performance on par with other native applications.
“Support for open standards including OpenKODE, OpenGL ES and the OMA mobile gaming white paper is important to advance the development of mobile games,” said Avner Goren, marketing director of Texas Instruments Cellular Systems Solutions. “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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