I'm on a train from Edinburgh back to London on Sunday, and as I pull out of Waverley I thought to myself I want to play SameGame on my 7650. Now there are a ton of versions of SameGame (including TileFall on the Psion Series 3 and 5's), and a few Java Midlet versions are kicking around. But they were all missing something.
So out comes the 9210 and the OPL Program editor and I start coding.
Same Game is a wonderful example of OPL as a Rapid Application Development tool. In a few hours, the nuts and bolts of the game were completed (2 hours). Then the polish in the gameplay (and a sligh rework on the graphics (another hour). Finally, a decent intro screen and hooks for the Demo version (2 hours) and you have an application coded in 5 hours.
And out of that, probably 4 and a half hours were on the 9210 - nowhere near a Desktop PC!
But ddon't let the speed of writing fool you - the game will hold you entranced for months.
Posted by Ewan at July 19, 2003 12:59 AM