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capitain··on StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game
Fixed it! Thanks for reporting the problem.
capitain··on StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game
Oh cool Warfare Inc, that's quite the impressive game! Definitely remember that, it gets mentioned on the PalmDB discord quite often.
capitain··on StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game
I think I mentioned it in an earlier blog post, Space War was actually the big inspiration to make this game hex-tile based. Happy to see I'm not the only one that remembers that game! (found it: https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-05-06-2025...)
capitain··on StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game
It's the whole idea of 'apps' before smartphones became a thing. It's also the simplicity of how these worked, forget multitasking, just focus on one thing at a time.

No subscriptions! Either the applications were free or it's a one-off fee/shareware kind of thing.

And it's ofcourse nostalgia, I made my first game for Palm OS over 20 years ago, it was nice to revisit it and get familiarized again with how the whole build system worked.

capitain··on We are still using 88x31 buttons
I called it pieces of flair: https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2024-04-26-how-...
capitain··on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
I am considering it now, thanks!
capitain··on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
It should be the industry standard imo
capitain··on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
Oh wow, do you have any interesting stories from back then? Saw some unreleased prototypes?