New Escapist Issue Up

Escapist's second issue, Gaming on the Go, is up and running. Highlight this week is The Escapist on Greg Gorden, where Allen Varney talks to him about squeezing a world as big as the Elder Scrolls series into a mobile phone. From the article:

In jamming full RPGs onto a phone, Gorden learned that "everything is bang-for-the-buck. If I crop an image by 15 pixels, does that free up memory for a dialogue or mission brief, another palette color? It was tradeoff after tradeoff. We squeezed until we could squeeze no more." Some of the supported handsets have just 64K of RAM. "We did custom versions for each main phone branch," Gorden says. "For the one we delivered to Sprint, we were within 17 bytes of the maximum.

Check out Issue 2 here.