and mobile development porting tools founded 2001 defunct march 2010 headquarters irvine california u.s key people alexander kral xavier kral products games 2012 apocalypse the inferno angels and demons uniwar iphone jeopardy iphone blood wheel of fortune iphone quantum of solace james bond top agent jeopardy deluxe wheel of fortune deluxe spider man 3 puzzle god of war betrayal spider man 3 action snoop dogg cruisin fish n tunes james bond casino royale and more tools xpress suite resource manager level editor universal emulator porting engine and avancys mobile marketplace xpressed.com website javaground official web site dead link javaground was the provider of a suite of development and porting tools for the mobile games industry called the xpress suite . the company was also a developer of mobile games . javaground s xpress suite was noted for its set of automated converters which were used to create games for a range of platforms including the iphone windows mobile android brew and flash from a single set of java me source code . 1 2 due to financial stresses the company closed in march 2010 and the website has been unavailable since sometime early in 2011 . contents 1 javaground games 2 xpress suite javaground s development tools 2.1 resource manager 2.2 level editor 2.3 universal emulator 2.4 porting engine 2.5 database 2.6 avancys 3 xpressed.com 4 history and location 5 external links 6 references javaground games edit in addition to numerous game porting projects javaground has completed the following original mobile games most of which have been published by sony online entertainment 2012 apocalypse 2009 the inferno 2009 angels and demons itunes app store 2009 uniwar iphone itunes app store 2009 jeopardy iphone itunes app store 2009 blood 2009 wheel of fortune iphone itunes app store 2009 quantum of solace 2008 afterworld 2008 rock & roll jeopardy 2008 wheel of fortune road trip 2008 james bond top agent 2008 jeopardy deluxe 2008 wheel of fortune deluxe 2008 ivan mosecovich s brain waves 2007 spider man 3 puzzle 2007 god of war betrayal 2007 spider man 3 action 2007 snoop dogg cruisin 2007 fish n tunes 2007 james bond casino royale 2006 some of javaground s porting projects include ghouls n ghosts capcom 2007 q bert sony online entertainment 2007 volfied taito corporation 2007 caterpillar tiki games 2006 elevator action sony online entertainment 2005 the legend of zorro sony online entertainment 2005 in mid april 2009 javaground released their first major independent title uniwar which debuted on the iphone . in less than a week it was in the list of top 10 games on the iphone app store carrying a constant 4.5 star average rating for most of the week . xpress suite javaground s development tools edit javaground s development tool suite known as the xpress suite consists of the following components resource manager edit resource manager is used to create optimize and manage assets . it is used to configure game graphics animation sequences palettes fonts and multi lingual translations . resource manager offers sophisticated 2d animation capabilities as well as graphical optimization tools used for the creation of compact game content files . level editor edit game environments constructed in the javaground level editor may consist of background tiles static scenery objects and custom movable objects such as characters and items . the level editor supports parallax scrolling and is suited for the creation of side scrolling platformers overhead rpgs and isometric games . universal emulator edit javaground s universal emulator was designed to streamline the process of testing and debugging . the application emulates a wide variety of devices making it possible to test and debug a game without having to first install it onto a mobile phone . porting engine edit this tool automatically generates builds for a variety of devices and platforms from a single set of source code . builds generated by this application are customized for the unique constraints and bugs present on each device . javaground s conversion tools convert java me code into numerous target formats . although most mobile phones sold worldwide rely on the java standard a significant number of service providers offer brew based devices in addition to android windows mobile and the iphone . javaground s converters eliminate the need to develop a different set of source code for each of these platforms . database edit the javaground database profiles the characteristics of a variety of mobile devices . mobile games are often created for devices with widely varying technical capabilities and the database assists developers by specifying which game features should be enabled on each device . avancys edit avancys is javaground s provisioning server used for maintaining information on product life cycles variants and localization . it is used extensively for qa operations . xpressed.com edit in early 2009 javaground launched a new mobile game marketplace called xpressed.com . when launched the site already featured well over 300 unique titles from over 20 publishers . some of the more notable features of the service are the availability of downloadable demos for all games web based demos for all games which can be embedded in other sites an option to pay a flat rate to have unlimited access to nearly all games and the ability for developers to come together and form new studios to publish their own games history and location edit javaground was founded in 2001 in brussels belgium by xavier kral . javaground usa corp was based in irvine california since 2004 . the company had offices in imola italy montreal canada chengdu china . javaground usa and all its offices were closed in march 2010 . javaground s technology was acquired by australian start up codengo in 2011 . 3 external links edit javaground official web site dead link xpressed.com javaground s mobile game marketplace indiagames trumpets porting speed increase using xpress suite indiagames saves 50 plus percent in mobile game porting costs using javaground s xpress suite references edit javaground june 2007 press release at phonemag.com archived july 13 2007 at the wayback machine . javaground january 2009 press release at marketwire.com archived january 21 2009 at the wayback machine . codengo revives pioneering mobile platform v t e god of war series video games god of war 2005 ii betrayal chains of olympus iii ghost of sparta ascension god of war tba universe characters kratos comic series collections book category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title javaground & oldid 724776789 categories companies established in 2001defunct video game companiesmobile game companiesvideo game companies of the united statesvideo game development companiescompanies disestablished in 2010hidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from june 2016 navigation 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