Nickel Iron / HTML5 game written in... Object Pascal!

[Eric]

Thanks!

While I appreciate effort you put into this game and general idea of making game with OP for android/HTML5, I must say this game is poor man's Missile Command version.

Yes I know, I haven't been able to find much time for it, nor for other games.
I suppose the next things I'll be doing will be global high-scores or leaderboards though. I had been trying Playtomic sometime ago, but their servers weren't very stable, and they went offline, and I haven't had time to investigate alternatives.

Other than those couple of games that were made for the PGD Challenge mini-competitions

Yep, not much activity on the Pascal gaming front. I guess right now the issue is being stuck between ready-to-use game engine on one side, and hardcore C/C++ engines on the other.

The new platforms could be an opportunity, though they're still small in terms of market.

FireFox OS phones out there are still counted in the thousandths as far as I can guess, though that could change given the various partnerships they announced, but at the moment everything is still up in the air.

I wonder what the take on Smart Mobile Studio would be in schools. Or if they would even be ready to support such a program.

IIRC Jorn mentioned something about a "for kids" version sometime ago, I can't speak for him, but it's probably more a question of time and opportunity - since you're involved in such, you know the logistics involved

[Darkhog]

I think it wouldn't be good to dumbing down SMS* for kids. I think it'd be better if Jorn or someone else would write point & click code generator, like Scratch that would generate proper Pascal SMS code. Then kids would be able to look into code generated and teacher could explain why code is written way it is and how it works. Kids would be able to make game visually, yet they'll learn Pascal skills.

*Smart Mobile Studio, not Short Messaging Service .

[Eric]

I think it wouldn't be good to dumbing down SMS* for kids.

That's the idea AFAIK, mostly simpler layers/generators/libraries on top of the usual Pascal.

Personally, I kinda like systems where you can go from bird eye high-level components, all the way down to intricate implementation details if you want. That's why I picked Delphi over VB (only had the bird eye's view) and moved from C/C++ (where you're constantly buried in implementation details).