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mobileFX Arcadea IDE Features

The integrated development environment of mobileFX Arcadea has imitated the organizational and functional structure of modern IDE such as Visual Studio .NET and Front Page 2003. Window-wise, mobileFX Arcadea is an MDI Form in which only one Editor may be occupying its Workspace each time.
Menus and Toolbars have Intelligent Sense allowing them to automatically show or hide depending on the current editor, for maximizing ergonomics. Secondary tasks such as navigation and property editors are implemented inside dockable panels so that they can be accessed and used directly, but without occupying beneficial area from the Workspace when developing a game.

During development, a game is organized inside a Game Project which is a hierarchical management structure of the game entities. Such entities are sprites, animation sequences, maps, tiled layers, weapons, images and fonts. Each of them is a programmatically customizable object.
A Game Project is displayed inside a tree-view list in a dockable panel, the Game Explorer, from which you can navigate among the game entities and load the entity-associated Editor. There are three basic Editors in mobileFX Arcades, the Pixel Editor for editing sprites, images and fonts, Sequence Editor for editing sprite animations and the Map Editor for editing Stage Maps. For advanced developers with J2ME knowledge there is also a build-in Java Editor allowing the customization of game entities by implementing Java Interfaces.
Each game entity may be customized through the Properties Editor, a window containing a Table with attribute-value-pairs of the currently selected entity. For example, you may configure whether a sprite respects gravity or if a stage map implements the force of gravity feature. By defining gravity to both a sprite and map results on sprite falling when it reaches a cliff of the map or getting landed after a jump.

Team Development IDE Features

Team Development with mobileFX Arcadea
Advanced and Professional Editions only

mobileFX Arcadea has build-in support for Team Development, by offering seamless integration with Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
You can open Game Projects directly from Visual Source Safe or add them under source control with a single click.
You can easily disconnect or re-connect a Game Project with VSS. On reconnection you are prompted for synchronizing your local project against the VSS or the VSS against your local project.
You can Synchronize your Game Project and fetch newly added game components by other developers of your Team easily.
Game Explorer displays which game entities are Checked-out by you, which are available and which are currently Checked-out by other members of your team.
When you Get the Latest Version of a game component or when you Undo - Checkout of a game component, the component is dynamically reloaded if required.

Integration with other IDE and SDK

Integration with other IDE and SDK
Advanced and Professional Editions only

mobileFX Arcadea has been tested for compatibility and co-current development with Sun's Java Studio Mobility and Borland JBuilder.
You can configure mobileFX Arcadea to detect file changes outside the IDE and reload the altered files as necessary.
The IDE can be configured to use RetroGuard obfuscator which can be defined at Game Project level.
mobileFX Arcadea has been tested for compatibility with the Sony Ericsson and NOKIA Software Development Kits.

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For specific information please follow these links:

		mobileFX Arcadea Features		Developing a Mobile Game with Arcadea
		mobileFX Game Engine		Product Installation Requirements
		mobileFX Arcadea IDE		Publish your mobileFX Games through us
		Game Templates		Glossary

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