[Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Gigalomania 0.22 in extras-devel.

Upstream: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.ha...galomania.html
There are user manual too.

Check video of game play on N900: http://youtu.be/4YzhuXQXF-o

Starting takes 20 seconds (removed from video clip).

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Tried it but found it not very intuitive... I think I will check the manual and "quickstart" http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.ha...tml#quickstart
Thank you!

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Wow, looks very neat, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Seems like a very original concept. Nice find.

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Absolutely loved Mega Lo Mania (or Tyrants on the Genesis). In case people don't know what this is a clone of...

http://www.mobygames.com/game/mega-lo-mania

One of the great 'god' games.

slaapliedje

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Ok, maybe not THAT original concept in the end, but unlike any other maemo game for sure and works sweetly (thought more about Populous, frankly, still a treat)

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Who doesn't know MegaLoMania? It was huge on the MegaDrive and Amiga.

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

At the time of amiga I had Atari800XL :) C64 wars, oh yeah. Apple vs M$ of the time, heh. UK was strange with ZX Spectrum rage, good times

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

speaking of which (I haven't known it, srry):, would UAE4All play it? (don't own the original as atari fanboi from the time, willing to 'ebuy' it if it is a MUST)

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Only one click on main web page -> http://freecode.com/projects/gigalomania
But I chose introduction text from another page.

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

OFFTOPIC
Speaking of Populous (1 and 2), there are video made by me about open source FreePop (http://freepop.sourceforge.net/) development version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzcIoSFXltY

It is not game yet, and there are nobody working on it, but of course we can speculate how that would work with touchscreen, lowering+raising land is so intuitive with left+right mouse buttons.

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Openpopulous is not ready either and is clone of populous3:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openpopulous/

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Version-0.24 on extras-devel.
Release Notes: http://freecode.com/projects/gigalom...eleases/343486

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Version-0.25 on extras-devel.
Release Notes: http://freecode.com/projects/gigalom...eleases/352337

Re: [Announce] Gigalomania (2D real time strategy game) on extras-devel
 

Oh my, I can't belive I've missed it - I remember playing it on amiga to the oblivion :) Thanks, AapoRantalainen, for another gaming gem from you!

/Estel

//Edit

And really it *is* from Aapo - he is even listen in main-page's credits. Congratulations!

Feature request - instead of having one-button interface hardcoded, could we be able to select it from options? Some people have right and middle mouse buttons already, using xbindkeys and xdotool (for example, fn + tap = right click). It would be more conveinent to play this way.

Even if, for some reasons, xbindkeys and xdotool events wouldn't be caught by gigalomania, it shouldn't be too hard to bind fn + tap as right click, from inside program (HomeworldSDL does that, amongst many others, so code could be scavenged from other projects).

/Estel