Aquaria

[HunterZ]

I got Aquaria as part of one of the Humble India Bundles and was thinking that it might be a good candidate for a Wiz port. I just read that a bunch of patches were just rolled into the Aquaria source repository to add PSP support, so that might make a Wiz port a lot easier:

Patch merge announcement: http://icculus.org/pipermail/aquaria/2011-April/000352.html
Source repo: http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/aquaria
Dev mailing list: http://icculus.org/pipermail/aquaria/
Aquaria homepage: http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/

 

[SML]

Aquaria is sluggish on my ASUS 1005PE under Linux (runs well under windows.) I wonder if the wiz could handle it.

 

[HunterZ]

Apparently it uses OpenGL and this new set of changes that has been merged in makes it quite playable on the PSP. I guess it would come down to how well the Wiz' OpenGL ES implementation would mesh with the PSP port's OpenGL code.

 

[SML]

Wouldn't a Caanoo's stick be more suited to the swimming controls?

In any case, Aquaria is a beautiful game that would be great to see on an open handheld. I'm surprised nobody else has commented.

 

[HunterZ]

I don't have a Caanoo, so I'd be pushing for Wiz

 

[crow_riot]

i was looking at the sources when they were released, because i wanted to give a shot. but i'm just not a porter, i hate messing around with other one's source code.
the only hope here lies i guess in pickle-the-porting-machine
he recently managed to get lugaru working on the pandora, so he's the right man for that.