It’s still early days—
but it’s turning into something you can actually play!
Think old-school text RPG meets local LLM.
Next goal: ASCII art + stats + magic.
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New blog post time!

This week's game is Time Crisis Elite, a unique entry made for J2ME phones, which is not the kind of place you'd normally expect to see this series.

While it can't match everything its predecessors have, you'd be surprised at how much of the formula it manages to maintain:

https://ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/time-crisis-elite/

#javagames #j2me #timecrisis #videogames #blog #writing

Time Crisis Elite

This is the most mechanically challenging and demanding of the Java games I’ve played, yet it might also be the one with the least to talk about! Time Crisis Elite does a genuinely solid job of ada…

Ephemeral Enigmas

I'm going to start a series about J2ME and Symbian mobile games.

First is Rise of Lost Empires. Amazing mobile RTS game from Gameloft! Heroes, base building, magic. This game has it all! It's a bit hard to control, especially on a emulator, but the controls are very good, considering the limitations. One of the top mobile java RTS games overall!

#retrogames #retrogaming #retro #j2me #symbian #nokia #java #javagames #emulators

A friendly reminder that #TheVideoGameLibrary also includes some more technical resources as well!

This “Do-It-Yourself Java Games” series from Annette Godtland uses a unique "discovery learning" approach to teach readers how to create their own computer games using #Java

👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/blog/hashtags/AnnetteGodtland

#Gaming #VideoGames #GameDev #GameDevelopment #JavaScript #Programming #PCGaming #Book #Books #Bookstodon #JavaGames #DIY #DoItYourself

#AnnetteGodtland

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