Julius, a Caesar III port, has now come to the Vita!

February 20th, 2019, 20:41 Posted By: wraggster

If you like city building and the Roman Empire, then your PSVita’s value has increased drastically as devnoname120 got it a Caesar III port called Julius with some help from Rinnegatamante and rsn8887!

From my observations throughout a short playing session, I observed that:As the source code of Caesar III isn’t publicly available, Julius is an open-source implementation by @bvschaik_ of the classic 1998 game that was created by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line. Julius aims to use the exact same logic as Caesar III and is also fully compatible with save games from it.

• Performance-wise, Julius is quite good and I observed no lag in a mostly empty map
• The touchscreen is used for main input as it controls the cursor
  
  • Unfortunately, tapping the screen doesn’t register as a left click so you have to press X/O for a left/right click respectively
  
  
• Audio and sounds work as intended
• There doesn’t seem to be any way to pop up the on-screen keyboard so your governor’s name will have to stay “The new governor”
• Sadly, you can use the left/right analogue sticks for mouse control which makes it a bit difficult to point to smaller elements if you don’t have a stylus

There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here