What kind of game do you want to see on the ppc ?

[Phantom]

Sorry, I know that. But some guys asked me A LOT of times to do that game after the Nutcracker. Hence the smiley. You couldn't know that of course.

[RICoder]

heh.<br><br>Ok.<br><br>:)

[Luciano U. Werner]

Yup. IM would be a nice one.<br>I vote for that one too.

[bjorn keizers]

You heathens! None of you know Reptoids?? <br><br>This is the Palmgear page:<br><br>http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=80353420010919125139&prodID=389<br><br>It's a lovely freeware game. If you have a palm, try it, it's really fun.

[RICoder]

WHOAH!  That's an AWESOME screenshot too! ~<br><br>As pet rocks go, it must be pretty cool...

[Bjorn Keizers]

Actually it is. There are some clones for the Palm III C which look pretty sweet. <br><br>IMHO, the palm has some pretty decent games; like someone said most clones of old dos stuff. There's a whole lot out there, just begging to be ported.

[RICoder]

Ok, while it is in my nature to rip palm apart at every turn, I will say that it did have some pretty cool games.<br>Probably like the really cooll games for C64 and TI994a...I mean, you have no power or graphics capability, the only thing left is playability.  Right?  So it makes sense.<br><br>I did see one game, I think it was Space Trader or something, for Palm...my buddy has it.  It was cool.  You know what that one is?

[Bjorn Keizers]

Yes, i've seen it. It's like a dopewars-in-space kinda thing right? With some 2d fighting as I recall.<br><br>

[NYIllustrator]

Wolfenstein<br>Maniac Mansion or Day of the Tentacle<br>Indy and the last crusade graphic adventure<br>or the make your own adventure thing sounds really awesome.

[Malmer]

Hmm...ppl are talking about writing thier own adventure games using some engine. Do you guys have any idea of the amount of effort needed to create all those graphics?

[Paul]

well i dunno, you need at least... 60+ locations, the objects to pick up and the characters... its not that hard - you wouldnt do it singlehanded though.

[Malmer]

Or you can go with good ol' MS Paint GFX...

[Paul]

please, we dont want it to look like argentum, now do we?<br><br>*runs*

[RICoder]

In my experience, having worked for a game co. and as current owner of a business co. with graphics on staff, I gotta say that art is ALWAYS underestimated.  Our staff has PhotoShop, Premier, Flash, and SoftImage.  These guys bang out graphics that are beatiful, but it takes time, and a lot of effort...that's the tough part.<br><br>Making 'cool' graphics is one thing.  Making polished 'great' graphics is something completely different.  Anyone can code a text adventure.  The real pros can make AOE, C&C, Quake, etc.

[Moose or Chuck]

I made a static line based D&D game using QBasic. I only coded about two scenes when I realised I didn't know how to make a Sub routine in QBasic.