Now that sounds totally awesome. Congratulations on getting your application accepted.
It will definitely be an interesting challenge trying to design a space-based game client that will work on a mobile phone. Not much real estate to work with there. The first thing that comes to my mind is that having a stylus and touch screen will be a big help. Good for dragging a starmap around or tapping star systems for exploration. Can't find any info on the resolution or size of the display though :/ Ah well...totally cool...very fun stuff... -Fro Jure Repinc wrote: > Hi all > > As some of you may have already read on my blog[1], I was one of the > lucky ones, who were selected to get a free Qtopia Greenphone > development kit. When I applied I proposed to create a Qtopia based > client for playing 4X space strategy games (all based on Thousand Parsec > of course) and I never expected that people from Trolltech would select > such an unusual application for a mobile phone. Well I guess I was wrong > and so in the next few days I should be getting the kit and I will be > able to start working on the client. > > As I've read before programming for Qtopia based mobile devices > shouldn't be that different from programming with Qt for desktop > computers. Well I guess I'll see. If all goes well I should be able to > reuse the C++ TP protocol library (libtpproto-cpp) and there should be a > lot of code that could be shared with Qt4/KDE4 client (Parsek) for > normal computers. As I said, we'll see. The deadline for submittion the > client to Trolltech for evaluation (and rewards for the best ones) is 31 > October 2007. So this means I'll have about 2 months to make something > that works. > > Until I get the kit I'll read more about Qtopia development, think about > how the user interface should look like and work (it is quite a > challenge to design for a small screen), what would be a nice catchy > name for the client. Anyways, this will be my very first time > programming for a mobile device, so any help is much appreciated. > > [1] > http://jlp.holodeck1.com/blog/2007/08/14/getting-a-trolltech-qtopia-greenphone-mobile-phone/ > > _______________________________________________ tp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/mailman.php/listinfo/tp-devel
