UQM is now in the extras-devel repository. I originally missed the more recent maemoization of it discussed in this thread (by Tero Hietanen), which seems to have been fairly nice. There was an older project that was out of date.

In any case, i took the latest version (0.6.6) of UQM from the upstream subversion repository and packaged it for Maemo 5. I haven't yet applied any of Tero's optimizations to the SDL canvas, but that can be done if there is demand and/or need.

What needs to happen now is for people with N900s to install the package, see if it works, and fiddle around with the control settings so that i can provide a useful default. Edit: (hopefully) useful default controls now included in altstart. Feel free to suggest alternatives.

I also need someone to see if the sound actually works on the N900. I have it disabled by default because it was crashing on the SDK, but there's no obvious reason for it to not work. If a brave soul could start it like this:
cd /opt/games/
./uqm --contentdir=/opt/share/games/uqm
from a shell, and let me know if it works, i would be most grateful. Edit: Sound works.

This is my first attempt at debianizing an app, let alone maemoizing one, so be gentle.

Edit: I released a small package called uqm-altstart to be installed as well. This will start up uqm fullscreen and with audio enabled, allowing other things that have not already been tested to come to the forefront. It can be removed without affecting uqm itself. See the later post about it. The latest version provides better default keymaps. I recommend installing it before playing.