A New Platform!

[lertulo]

I've been a big fan of the Danger Hiptop cell phone, and have made a decent wage writing games for it. But writing in Java hurts my pride, and when my third Hiptop in a row died a hardware death I decided it was time to rethink my choice of platform

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[piscis_lj]

It's like the end of an era. I ... I just don't know what to say... :O

Cat

[piscis_lj]

Sorry thought of one more thing - does this mean your games will be cross platform now?

[lertulo]

Well, sort of. I've written games for the PC, for the PocketPC and for the Hiptop cell phone, and I'm now working on adding the iPhone to the list.

The problem is that PC/PocketPC content is written in C++, the Hiptop's content is Java, and the iPhone's content is Objective-C. So it's really hard to write something once and use it everywhere.

Worse, they all have different feature sets. Desktops clearly use keyboard/mouse and maybe joysticks for their primary input; PocketPC has a touch screen but also has Gameboy-like controls (hardware buttons you can mash and so forth); iPhone is purely touch but has some neat motion sensing tricks. So it's hard to even come up with a single game that's compelling on all platforms without significant revisions.

[lertulo]

Oh, at least two weeks; I'm getting old. :)

[saanen]

I saw Matthew yesterday and he said Mike just got an iPhone, or whatever the next thing they released after it is. He says it's awesome to a breathtaking degree and he wants one too now.

Um, I just tagged you over on my new blog (http://kcshaw.blogspot.com/). You don't have to do the tags (two of them), but I included you on my list because I don't know enough people well enough to pester them. You I can pester. :)

[jackiejj]

So you're with AT&T now?

Sigh.

Well, I do have a camera on my phone...