Dingoonity.org

I know the community has dwindled drastically in the past year or so for the GCW Zero, but I was wondering if someone would port FreeCiv to the GCW Zero. The game is completely open source and is probably as close to a portable Civilization game that I am going to get on this device.

Freeciv.org

https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv

Dittizardichu,
Interesting challenge!
I have never played FreeCiv but I'm curious, how would the user interface look on a 320x240 display? Would it be playable?
Also, does the game require a mouse?
I think a good start for porting this game would be to sketch mockups for how the game would be controlled.

Honestly I'm not sure why I didn't think of that initially. Firstly, the UI. Though small, perhaps you could render it in 640x480 and force a downscale so the UI isn't so largely rendered to match the pixels. I think you could map key combos to hotkeys for the UI so that their wasn't a major need to look directly at the UI (if the player knew what they needed). Second, the mouse. Based on the way the game plays, I'm assuming a joystick wouldn't be necessary for normal game play, so perhaps the joystick could be mapped as a mouse if possible. I don't know all the limitations of the GCW but one would hope that mapping a joystick as a mouse of sorts would be feasible. I can get a few mockups put together soon for a sample, but I hope there is some way to port this game.