Old Game, New Clothes

Old Game, New Clothes Back in university in 2003 we had to do a group project. I don't remember which course it was, but the assignment was pretty open. Basically as long as you coded something, you passed. I had just switched from my trusty Palm Tungsten E2 PDA to a Linux based Sharp Zaurus and I was missing a little puzzle game I enjoyed playing on the Palm. So my friend Frank and I decided to implement our own version. The Zaurus used QT as the graphics framework so we made it in C++ and QT. It was a fun project and it not only worked on the Zaurus but also on desktop. Frank even managed to compile it for Windows. The time of PDAs was soon over and the age of the smartphone had begun. From time to time I thought about creating an Android app of that game. Unfortunately I had lost the original source code, so I asked Frank if he still had it and luckily he found it on an old disk. Good thing he sent the code to my gmail account where it got archived forever. Because that was back in…