Porting for Profit - Week #25 2008

[Johan Samuelsson]

Week #25 of 2008 is here, and with that, another roundup on what Porting for Profit has been up to!

Spot ported a very cool game engine called Megazeux. It has a huge modding community and lots of cool games.

This one for example:






It's called Eternal Eclipse Taoyarin. All Megazeux games are ANSI based, but don't let that stop you.
The work that has gone in to the best ones is amazing. Some of the best are available at OS4Depot.

Spot ported an NCurses based Sokoban/Boulder Dash clone called NPush.

NPush title screen.


Ingame action.

Spot ported Crimson Fields.


It now has E-mail and network support.

Spot ported Quantum Minigolf.


And he describes it as 'officially the weirdest game for os4'.
It's a minigolf game with a quantum physics engine. O_o

Varthall ported Blockout 2 - A 3D top-view Tetris clone.


Get them all from OS4Depot, we hope you'll enjoy them!

[jj]

god you lot are busy. keep up the good work.  Im sure A1260 will have something boring to say about it all.

[Pyromania]

Awesome news, good job!

[weirdami]

How come you guys can ports things so quickly and how are you picking what to port?

[Varthall]

It's all thanks to the SDL libraries and to the OS4 SDK environment, which makes porting software from Linux quite easier. And, as you can see, Spot is lucky enough to have more free time than me for the ports

We usually hunt the web for possible candidates, using Google and using as keywords "SDL", "game", "open source" and so on. There are also some news portals which publish news on open-source gaming. Last but not least, some ports are requested by other users (e.g. BlockOut).

Varthall

[motorollin]

Never knew what MegaZeux was until I saw that screenshot and then looked in to it. I used to love ZZT under DOS so I'll have to give MegaZeux a try :-)

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moto