This collection of white papers from Forum Nokia provides a good range of information for both game designers, visual designers and developers. Grab these while you can as many seem to be disappearing.
- Designing Single Player Mobile Games
- Top 10 Usability Guidelines for Games: A handy checklist of design recommendations for pre, post and in-game navigation, feedback and overall experience.
- Mobile Game Playability Heuristics: Contains several lists of gameplay, mobility and multi-player heuristics along with in-depth description of each. Also includes a fine bibliography on the subject.
- Mobile Game Graphics, Overcoming the Small Screen Challenge
- Usability in Mobile Games
- S60 Usability Guidelines for J2ME Games: Large document with in depth guidelines and heuristics. (Archived Forum Nokia, direct PDF link, who knows how long this will be around
- Overview of Multiplayer Mobile Game Design: Primarily aimed at game designers, this white paper covers varied approaches to game design with a focus on networking, community features and dealing with latency.
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