> > Are there not any good palm game programming books availble > > somewhere. There is one palm game prog. book but its average > > user rating on amazon is like 1 star. Anybody have any > > recommendations for books or even internet resources? > > In my opinion there aren't really any good game programming books at all.
i was approached just over two years ago to write a game programming book for palm - and, i eventually turned down the offer. there are a number of reasons: a) the book would have a specific audience, too small b) return for investment wasn't worth it c) the palmos has been changing quite a bit lately (OS5, 6). the bottom line, is that programming palmos from a gaming point of view isn't any really different from programming MSDOS games. all you need is access to the display, input and output functionalities. you can pretty much get any book on game design and development - the platform specifics are the minor things (and, they always change) instead of writing a book, we created SHARK - our multi platform development kit just for mobile devices. due to its design, it also get pocket pc, smartphone, symbian and other platform support as it gets developed. http://www.mobilewizardry.com/multi-platform/ we now have a suite of games developed using it - and, we can triple our potential market base in seconds. maybe one day, we'll write a book on how to use SHARK :) at least there it has a future (as one platform dies, another will replace it) --- Aaron Ardiri (Skype:: callto://ardiri) PalmOS Certified Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
