EDGE New Palm OS RPG Game
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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RE: Awesome graphics! :)
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! :)
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! :)
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.
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog
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! :)
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: Awesome graphics! :)
Surur
RE: Awesome graphics! :)
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. :)
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"People who like M$ products tend to be insecure crowd-following newbies lacking in experience and imagination."
RE: Awesome graphics! :)
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RE: Awesome graphics! :)
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.
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: Awesome graphics! :)
Accepted. Palm, especially the Treo, is obviously still large in the USA.
BTW: D.O., you know what.
Surur
More screenshots....
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"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
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
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"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
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 alike
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"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
The Shadow knows!
RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
RE: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
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I strike at thee!
Any tried this game for StyleTap?
"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?
Anyway, great game! It's more prettier than Ancient Evil!
Finally It Arrived !!
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..
So for all the moaners posting here I go to say one thing: go play tomb raider on a CE device, cause this was cleary NOT made for you...
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IIIxe -> TT
RE: Finally It Arrived !!
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Awesome graphics! :)
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