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    EDGE New Palm OS RPG GamePosted By: Ryan on Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:53:39 PM
Zanegames has released its long awaited real-time role playing game. EDGE features console-quality graphics, isometric imagery, rich sound, smooth animation and deadly enemies and spells.
First shown in May 2003, the games is now available for Palm OS 5 devices. The game features customizable characters, a large world with multiple quests, real-time combat, tons of unique enemies, animated spells, rich sounds effects and a soundtrack. EDGE supports 320x320 resolution screens and higher. It is optimized for ARM devices and is also optimized for the Tapwave Zodiac. A demo version is available, the game costs $24.95 to register.
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27 total comments The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. PIC is not responsible for them in any way. login or register for free in order to post comments.  RE: Awesome graphics! :)KultiVator @ 10/31/2005 4:32:51 AM #
No the graphics are crap... pixels look sooo much better on WinMob/MinCE devices. Hey even Symbian pixels are superior to those found on Palm devices. ;P Sorry - just thought I'd beat the senseless Palm critics to that one! Although, they invariably know the name of the Palm exec/employee responsible for every little Palm fault/missing feature! Sadly I don't know the names of many Palm employees - perhaps because, like many other happy Palm OS users, I HAVE A LIFE! It is nice to see something like this come out on Palm OS first - then be ported to other handheld platforms. I am first to admit an overall cooling down within the Palm software world, in terms of new releases, so this title is excellent news at an important time. KultiVator RE: Awesome graphics! :)
Kultivator, you had a nice win ce free discussion, then you had to spoil it. Shame on you! But now that you've done the damage, has it occured to you that the main reason this software is coming out now, at the sunset of POS, is because it had been worked on for 3+ years already? The real question is, will some-one start writing such software today? Surur RE: Awesome graphics! :)
surer wrote: will some-one start writing such software today? It's happening all the time. We're just starting a new Palm OS project for a client this week. RE: Awesome graphics! :)
A game like this (I mean high quality consumer software which needs a huge investment in time, talent and energy) or a vertical app leveraging an existing investment? Surur RE: Awesome graphics! :)
It's a vertical app for a new investment in Treo 650s. David Beers Pikesoft Mobile Computing Software Everywhere blog www.pikesoft.com/blog RE: Awesome graphics! :)
Cool, but there is much less risk involved, versus writing expensive consumer software which may not find a market. Surur RE: Awesome graphics! :)Dr Opinion @ 10/31/2005 10:37:33 AM #
Of course, an investment in wince would be *shockingly* risky, considering that the wince division is about to be gutted, and the survivors merged into a new 'entertainment' division. :) If a product never actually makes any money for years, and only exists becuase constant injections of cash, lingering on like an accident victim on life-support, can it really be considered to be a safe environment for investment? I don't think so. :) Look for a wince replacement within the next 12-18 months. It will be an XP Mobile derivative and break all binary compatability with wince. You heard it hear first. :) RE: Awesome graphics! :)Dr Opinion @ 10/31/2005 10:50:08 AM #
After the wince division is closed and merged into 'entertainment' apparently many wince engineers will be "repositioned" from wince to a new long-term project attempting to build an "XBox Portable". It is difficult to imagine this could result in acceptable mobile devices anytime soon: no wince licencee is able to produce anything even remotely as sophisticated and elegant as the PSP, for example. :) ------ "People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience and imagination." RE: Awesome graphics! :)
Surer wrote: Less risk for my company, true. My point was that when it comes to custom vertical apps in the business world there are plenty of companies who look at the great user acceptance and rich, intuitive UI of the Treo 650 versus the WM or RIM competition rather than worrying about stuff like Cobalt being MIA or Sony exiting the PDA market. If they're planning to deploy a fleet of Treos, which are the biggest selling smartphone in the US market, what do they care how many other Palm OS licensees or devices there are out there? I expect that there is a growing sense of risk in investing in Palm OS, thanks in large part to the announcement of the WM Treo, but I'm hardly seeing a stampede. At most what we see are customers who want their software to be written cross-platform (using something like SuperWaba) so that if they need to switch to WM at some time in the future they won't incur the cost of a difficult port. RE: Awesome graphics! :)
Accepted. Palm, especially the Treo, is obviously still large in the USA. BTW: D.O., you know what. Surur 
 More screenshots....Dr Opinion @ 10/31/2005 12:36:43 AM #
http://www.rzanerutledge.com/edge/screenshots.html
------ "People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience and imagination."
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
Does anyone remember this?
RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alikeDr Opinion @ 10/31/2005 1:19:24 AM #
plugh :) ------ "People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience and imagination." RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
DnD? Nah... Plover. 8^) I'll have mine without graphics. But, this looks pretty cool, and I just may get one for my Zodiac... xyzzy RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alikeDr Opinion @ 10/31/2005 8:26:43 AM #
Yes, but it's not hungry, (it's merely pinin' for the fjords). :) ------ "People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience and imagination." RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
If you want to fire up Infocom, Magnetic Scrolls or Scott Adams text adventures, try my freeware Kronos ports project: http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/kronos.html Scrollback, auto-mapping (to some extent), save/load etc are present. Tap on screen to pick words or get context menus etc etc. But buy Zane's game; its clearly one of the best on the platform, especially if you're a fan of Diablo or Dark Alliance (Baldurs Gate) type games. :) jeff RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alikeReneeRoberts @ 10/31/2005 10:45:04 AM #
Heh... not only do I remember it, I remember when it was ported from VMS... I suddenly feel old. RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alikeDr Opinion @ 10/31/2005 10:57:21 AM #
Yeah, I got an old F77 version to run on a Pr1me way back when. Been a while. Those things used to rock. Kinda. :)
------ "People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience and imagination."
I strike at thee!
Ho! I strike at thee with a fierce swift jab! Ho! flashbacks of Dungeons and Dragons swirl through mine head!
Any tried this game for StyleTap?ackmondual @ 10/31/2005 11:27:40 AM #
The dev encourages it. Provides brief instructions on setting up StyleTap and which version is recommended. Playable even on QVGA PPCs, altho 240x240 won't scale too nicely. "Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake? Anyone can make an error, but that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." -Grand Admiral Thrawn the secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse My PDAs: Visor --> Visor Neo (blue) --> Zire 71 --> Tungsten T3 (with 4 of 6 screws still remaining) ~?~> zodiac 2? RE: Any tried this game for StyleTap?
Yap, I've installed it on my Axim X50v, and it actually runs faster than my LifeDrive. But whenever I talk to town-people, the sound kind of chops off a little, so my guess is that my SD card is not fast enough because all the sound files are loaded into it?
Anyway, great game! It's more prettier than Ancient Evil!
Finally It Arrived !!VastheGreek @ 11/1/2005 5:39:53 PM #
I dont care what you lot got to say.... I dont care if you think that graphics are dated !!! If you are a TRUE RPG fun go buy it like I did... In RPGs its the gameplay that matters, not the graphics.. RE: Finally It Arrived !!KultiVator @ 11/2/2005 2:24:02 PM #
Who was moaning - for once a PIC thread seemed really civilised! RE: Finally It Arrived !!Dr Opinion @ 11/2/2005 4:49:05 PM #
It's really, really, good. Damn. :) ------ "People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience and imagination." RE: Finally It Arrived !!VastheGreek @ 11/4/2005 10:44:15 AM #
I was just saying..... =)
VERY NICE INDEED !! ---========--- IIIxe -> TT
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