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Re:StarGrid: A Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:59PM (#45675072)
Fixed it! Thanks for reporting the problem.
Re:StarGrid: A Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:00PM (#45660090)
Oh cool Warfare Inc, that's quite the impressive game! Definitely remember that, it gets mentioned on the PalmDB discord quite often.
Re:StarGrid: A Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @01:29PM (#45658702)
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...)
Re:StarGrid: A Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:14AM (#45654871)
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.

Re:We are still using 88x31 buttons on Sunday April 06, 2025 @04:12AM (#43599777)
I am considering it now, thanks!
It should be the industry standard imo
Oh wow, do you have any interesting stories from back then? Saw some unreleased prototypes?