Tuesday, September 1, 1998

Rocketship: writing a PalmPilot game

PROGRAMMING POWER

By Alan Jay Weiner

My son Daniel likes to play with the PalmPilot. As he's only three, most of the games are too advanced for him, although he does like DinkyPad and the "walking game" (Kyle's Quest).

This month we'll put together a small game for him. It's simple; we can expand it next month. Actually, it's not much of a game; more of a time-waster, but it's the structure for a game. We can expand on it another time.

Daniel's a typical boy; he likes motorcycles, spaceships, knights, and anything that can be turned into a gun (which he calls a "shoot gun"). At various times he either wants to be a policeman or a "bad guy." I think we'll use spaceships for this game