• DocumentCode
    2282213
  • Title

    Board Games of African Origin on Mobile Phones

  • Author

    Henney, Andre J. ; Agbinya, Johnson I.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Cape Univ.
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    15-17 Nov. 2005
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    Most African board games have high state space complexity and limit their implementation on mobile phones and hardly any are. In this paper, we discuss the state space of such board games and investigate several African board games from the Mancala family. The paper provides a basis and rational for software games that match the broader interests from the continental context. We implement a version of the board games for the Nokia GPRS mobile phones and describe how the game was developed, and tested. The game application is for the Nokia 6310i mobile phone. We describe how the game was developed, implemented and tested on a mobile phone
  • Keywords
    computer games; mobile handsets; Affrican origin; African board games; Mancala family; Nokia 6310i mobile phone; Nokia GPRS mobile phones; software games; African games; Java; Mancala; Mobile Phone; OTA; PDA;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, 2005 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • Print_ISBN
    981-05-4573-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MTAS.2005.207225
  • Filename
    1656765