Space Empires on Facebook?

Urendi Maleldil · #1 September 2nd, 2007, 03:51 PM

It would be intersting to see a version of Space Empires in-browser. Not SE5 of course, but maybe something like SE3 or SE4. I believe both were built in Visual Basic, so I don't think a direct port would be possible.

On the other hand, a full web-based interface that gave access to a desktop version of Space Empires would probably be more powerful.

Fyron · #2 September 2nd, 2007, 04:11 PM

They were written with Delphi. SE1 and SE2 were VB.

Urendi Maleldil · #3 September 3rd, 2007, 03:16 AM

Ahh. I knew it was something wierd. I remember playing SE2 and hearing someone say it was written in Visual Basic. I assumed 3 and 4 were too. I don't know much about Delphi. If you had access to the source code, would it be easy to implement some sort of API in a Delphi program that would easily interface with a web-based app?

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 September 3rd, 2007, 04:34 AM

...Facebook has always sounded to me like something you do just after you've been embarrassed.

Will · #5 September 3rd, 2007, 04:46 AM

Depends on how it was written. If the code follows the object-oriented dogma of MVC to the letter, then yes; you're just writing a new 'V' part. But it's not often that a project of that size will have that much code discipline, especially when it's basically one coder with no review processes. There would need to be at least some changes.