Michael Morrison

Vault · archived work, not current thinking

Connect 4 (Mobile)

2002–2005 · J2ME mobile

A tiny phone screen showing a Connect 4 grid of white circles, with red and blue discs stacked in the two left-hand columns and a red disc at the foot of the third. A blue arrow and the words 'Your turn.' sit above the board.

Classic Connect Four, built for J2ME-capable phones in the mid-2000s. The interesting design constraint was the input — most phones of the era had 12 numeric keys plus a 5-way directional pad, and any game needed to be playable with that and only that. Demo for the J2ME mobile game programming book.

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