[maemo-developers] Frets on Fire on Fremantle

[From: Sami.Kyostila at nokia.com]

Hi,

>	I have ported the popular desktop game "Frets on Fire" (Guitar Hero clone) to Fremantle. It leverages the OpenGL support in the new platform. Here is the video (http://blip.tv/file/1839929)
>	
>	You can find the details of the port on my blog post (http://jyro.blogspot.com/2009/03/frets-on-fire-on-maemo-5-fremantle.html). Some tweaks in 
>the GUI and we might convert the next Nokia tablet into an electric guitar.

Great work! I was thinking of doing the port myself, but you seem to have beaten me to it :)

I'm afraid there's still some work to be done, however. Frets on Fire uses OpenGL graphics, while in Maemo 5 we only have OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0. The graphics code in the game will therefore have to be mostly rewritten to use the more limited set of features available in OpenGL ES. The graphics complexity will probably also need to be tuned down to get decent performance.

I'm not sure why the Fremantle SDK ships with the desktop OpenGL libraries in the first place, though.

- Sami