Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-22 Thread Kent Karlsson
Thanks for getting it to the wiki, I've been trying to finish it for a couple of hours this morning, but there is this work thing that keeps me occupied all the time. =) I'll try to flesh out my idea some more and write a couple of paragraphs on it on the wiki. -- kent On 22 jan 2007,

Gaming oportunities

2007-01-21 Thread Nico Veenkamp
Hi, I joined the list today and have read through most of the discussions. As others here I am very excited about this new device and looking forward to get my hands on one. I like my games few and simple, so most of the time I play GJeweled and FrozenBubble.I see that they were not mentioned so

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-21 Thread Jeff Andros
tron? like this?(http://codeninja.de/tron/) I'm down. we've got agps, and the data link should be fast enough to relay position data. it's a whole lot more manageable on the bike... could make a case for that environment hardened device. On 1/16/07, el jefe delito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-21 Thread Kent Karlsson
Hey, What do you guys think about creating a nice lib which makes it easy for games to support different multiplayer modes? Live connection over Bluetooth and/or GPRS (Perhaps mixed). Play by mail over email or sms. It would be awesome if we could switch between the modes as well for

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-18 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Engin Erenturk wrote: I'm a game developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have a 640x480 vga screen. Is there any predictions about the gamşing oportunities of this device? It is lacking 3D

RE: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-18 Thread Fella, Jean-Francois
Sven Neuhaus wrote: It is lacking 3D acceleration so it's not really a hot gaming machine. I don't think it is a problem. I got an Nokia N-Gage: it runs many 3D games, but has no 3d acceleratio, just laying on the CPU 100Mhz RISC architecture. So it can be done with OpenMoko. Jeff

Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Engin Erenturk
Hi, I'm Engin; I'm a game developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have a 640x480 vga screen. Is there any predictions about the gam#351;ing oportunities of this device

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 18:51, Engin Erenturk wrote: Hi, I'm Engin; I'm a game developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have a 640x480 vga screen. Is there any predictions about the gam#351

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Engin Erenturk
Ambuehl scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 18:51, Engin Erenturk wrote: Hi, I'm Engin; I'm a game developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Engin Erenturk
developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have a 640x480 vga screen. Is there any predictions about the gam#351;ing oportunities of this device? Unless your game can be controlled with a touchscreen, you

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Engin Erenturk
developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have a 640x480 vga screen. Is there any predictions about the gam#351;ing oportunities of this device? Unless your game can be controlled with a touchscreen, you

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Marc Verwerft
i wonder most about open openmoko is the gaming oportunities. as i read from mails today, it will have a 640x480 vga screen. Is there any predictions about the gamşing oportunities of this device? Unless your game can be controlled with a touchscreen, you won't like it as gaming device

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Wil Chung
Hi, this is my first time posting, I'm just been lurking so far. Looks like everyone, including myself is excited about openmoko. Engin's recent post on controls had me thinking: Why do we have buttons in games? But I think we had buttons to control games because early game makers didn't have

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread el jefe delito
Some of the easier ideas could be: 1. Tic-Tac-Toe: grid changes colour for the Red player's turn, or Blue player's turn 2. Connect Four: grid also changes colour 3. Checkers 4. Chess 5. Gem Drop (already GPL, some info here http://www.tucows.com/preview/9259) 6. that addictive Photo game where

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Marcel de Jong
If the Neo has a multi touch touchscreen, we really should think outside of the box. Look at this demonstration by mr. Jeff Han to see an example of what might be possible :) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5195605778138598326 And look at what Nintendo did with their DS. (though of

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Jonas Berlin
Quoting Marcel de Jong on 01/16/2007 09:33 PM UTC: If the Neo has a multi touch touchscreen, we really should think outside of the box. Look at this demonstration by mr. Jeff Han to see an example of what might be possible :) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5195605778138598326 And

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread tony
el jefe delito wrote: Some of the easier ideas could be: 1. Tic-Tac-Toe: grid changes colour for the Red player's turn, or Blue player's turn 2. Connect Four: grid also changes colour 3. Checkers 4. Chess 5. Gem Drop (already GPL, some info here http://www.tucows.com/preview/9259 ) 6. that

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Richard Franks
On 1/16/07, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless your game can be controlled with a touchscreen, you won't like it as gaming device. I've got a mockup I did for a Gravity Power port I've been putting off for too long: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/359950380/ With a