MUPE: gateway to multi-user games and services
Thu, 2007-12-20 16:53
Beloved beta users, we just launched an interesting new Java application (or actually, application platform) called MUPE under Nokia Beta Labs.
For users:
MUPE is an emerging mobile playground to have fun with your friends. Just install the MUPE client to your phone, and start enjoying the growing collection of MUPE games and services.
For developers:
Multi-User Publishing Environment (MUPE) is an open source application platform for mobile multi-user context-aware applications. MUPE allows anyone to easily create their own mobile services, games and applications - only server side programming is required. Learn more from http://www.mupe.net.
Download here.
MUPE is an open source project and it has been public for quite some time already, as Gorkem Ercan pointed out in Java for S60 blog last September. Now, however, it has matured into an official Nokia Beta Labs release, and we'd love to hear your thoughts!
Note: this is not (yet) a mainstream application development platform, like the ones promoted by Forum Nokia, and therefore the developer support is limited.
Comments
Good but not all m phones grant acsess to internet from mobile aplicatinos. :(
Very nice, but is there any way to turn off those confirmations about granting access to the internet for the application? It asks those millions times, and it really kills the joy of using it.
You should be able to get rid of the confirmation dialogs by following the installation instructions. You can choose from three different ways, but in every case you need to have also the JAD file present when installing MUPE, since it contains the certificate for trusted JAVA application. For instance, just click on the JAD file from your phones WEB browser.
If you installed MUPE only using the JAR file the application did not get the certificate.
However there was a short period of time, just after the year changed when the JAD file did not work (certificate got old), but now it is fine again.
I agree with Alexander Savin -- it first asks you to to choose an acces point at start up before showing the main menu, then after you pick a game it asks you to confirm connecting to the service, then twice more asks for an access point!
PocketRealms was fun, but I conquered the whole map and the game just continued even though it said it should end once a realm controls over 66%.
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Maybe a dumb question but, I keep getting a connection error when I try to play a game.
Download in install onto N95 is fine, it's only when I try to activate a game that I get an error
Do i have to tweak the settings?
If so, what to? ;-)
I'm getting an error, too. I installed by downloading the JAD onto my phone and using that to install. after saying "Yes" to the "Use this service?" question, it shows a connection screet where I select an access point. After selecing one it gives the error "Error No connection."
All other internet apps function properly during this.
Updated 30th January 2009, but now archived.
> Updated 30th January 2009, but now archived.
To clarify, the software wasn't updated on 30 Jan - we only moved it into archive that day.
I'll try to clarify this better in the website, sorry for confusion!!