GDC: Hardware Accelerated 3D Games on the N-Gage Platform
In a talk this afternoon, Nokia’s Peter Lykke Nielsen — with an assist from the guys at Digital Legends Entertainment — showed interested game developers how the OpenGL ES 1.1 standard will be incorporated into the N-Gage Software Development Kit (SDK) in the near future. Nielsen is the product manager of the N-Gage SDK.
As many of our more technical-savvy readers already know, a number of N-Gage compatible devices that are also OpenGL ES 1.1 compliant are already in the market. The good news is that Nokia plans to offer hardware-acceleration of select N-Gage games going forward, as well as a software rendered version for those devices that lack hardware acceleration.
The bad news is that I can’t tell you which games will feature 3D hardware support or when they will be available. But considering we were shown a sweet-looking demo of ONE running under OpenGL and that the Digital Legends team gave an overview of their experience developing, one can probably draw one’s own conclusions about at least one game. 
* For more detailed information on creating games for N-Gage, visit http://developer.n-gage.com/.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Great, but considering first access is still only avalable for the N81 which does not have this feature, most other users will feel a little bit mift they are being left to read, from what I can see are blatent teasers on a platform that only exist at the moment in a untidy beta version.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:57 am
“…one can probably draw one’s own conclusions about at least one game. ”
Oh, you mean … *thinking hard* … ONE???
February 19th, 2008 at 5:01 am
So, anyways, when are we getting the full N-gage application? I was sure that with this GDC will come also the anouncement that “N-gage is live!” for all Nseries. And I’m still waiting…
The abundency of news is a good pointer in that direction.
February 19th, 2008 at 6:41 am
download game
February 19th, 2008 at 11:53 am
So, as Radu asks: when are we getting the full N-gage application? :/
February 19th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
is good
February 20th, 2008 at 12:02 am
now we need only a RLS-Date for 3D :((
February 20th, 2008 at 3:18 am
We want the full ngage app! Enough of this exclusive n81 club house. Oh i get it now: n81 didnt sell dat well so nokia is making 1st access exclusive so that we go and buy the n81. You’ll have 2 do better then that. I love my n73 very much thankyou
February 20th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Why must they always use that picture of El Tac0 when posting about ONE?
Common, use the pic of that carribean chick instead!
But on topic, I too am interested to konw the launch date of the full app. But I wont go crying home if I dont know. I’ll just get top scores on First Access now (
February 20th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Eh, WTF? My comment got cut in half?
Oh well, double post then, sigh
Why must they always use that picture of El Tac0 when posting about ONE?
Common, use the pic of that carribean chick instead!
But on topic, I too am interested to konw the launch date of the full app. But I wont go crying home if I dont know. I’ll just get top scores on First Access now (
February 20th, 2008 at 4:33 am
sum1 help! Comments are broken!
February 20th, 2008 at 11:29 am
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February 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 am
More 3D games on the way it means, great !
April 5th, 2008 at 5:27 am
you can write hardware accelerated OpenGL ES games for nokia phone for quite a long time using symbian.
The ngage platform is still in beta stage, OpenGL es still is not implemented (I hear it won’t be available til the end of the year).
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
It’s run on my Nokia N81 8gb??
June 5th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Run in n81 8gb..?