{"id":278,"date":"2010-08-03T21:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-08-04T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T00:02:13","slug":"galcon-for-androidos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Galcon for AndroidOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/droidpromo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-279\" title=\"droidpromo\" src=\"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/droidpromo-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/droidpromo-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/droidpromo.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loves me the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Galcon<\/a>, an amazing real time seat of your pants\u00c2\u00a0multi player\u00c2\u00a0risk style game set in space. I have been playing since 2007 on Linux and of course was a bit ticked off when an iPhone app of it came out some time ago. I wrote the author and asked &#8220;Why no love for the AndroidOS?&#8221;. Sometime latter he decided to take a week and \u00c2\u00a0port the game to AndroidOS, he even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/porting-galcon-using-the-android-ndk\/\" target=\"_blank\">documented his adventures in porting on his blog<\/a>. Today it was announced the app will be out to the masses in a few days. I was fortunate enough to get a beta copy to test out and I can tell you it is working\u00c2\u00a0fantastically. \u00c2\u00a0I, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/iphone\/stats.php?name=tomhiggins&amp;gtype=FFA\" target=\"_blank\">play about as well as a trained baboon<\/a> but the port is spot on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loves me the Galcon, an amazing real time seat of your pants\u00c2\u00a0multi player\u00c2\u00a0risk style game set in space. I have been playing since 2007 on Linux and of course was a bit ticked off when an iPhone app of it came out some time ago. I wrote the author and asked &#8220;Why no love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}