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Translation Techniques for Mobile Games  

Park, Ji-Woo (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Oh, Se-Man (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters / v.16, no.9, 2010 , pp. 936-947 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the mobile gaming market, it is desirable for a specific content to be served on various platforms. Recently, it is a very important issue in the market for mobile games. This problem incurs extra cost, because we need to redevelop existing contents to be executed on another platforms. Moreover, the release of a new platform has spent much more effort and cost developing many contents in short period of time. Therefore, we need to research about translation techniques that enable the existing contents to run on a different platform. In this paper, we propose translation techniques for mobile games. The techniques can be applied on converting mobile contents to runnable contents on a new platform. To realize it, we design and implement a source-level contents translator which is targeting Android platform using the suggested techniques. Our source-level contents translator is implemented systematically by applying compiler theory. Also, we solve partially translation problems between different programming languages. The translator has been implemented separately divided into three tasks such as kernel porting, library mapping as well as language translation. We expect these techniques to increase utilization of existing mobile games and contribute to vitalizations of mobile contents industry.
Keywords
Contents Translator; Mobile Game; Android; Language Translation;
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