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Porting the Game to iOS ?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by darDar, Jul 27, 2011.

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  1. darDar

    darDar KAG Guard Forum Moderator Tester

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    Hey when i saw my friend playing around with his iPad2 today i thought about if it may be possible to port KAG to iOS ( iPhone , iPad2)
    I guess this would work out really well.

    Im just curious if this may work, you said you gonna port it to MAC so why not iOs.
     
    darDar, Jul 27, 2011
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  2. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Porting to iOS properly would require a lot of extra work.
    Particularly in the area of making the game decent to play on a touch screen.

    I can't see this happening till the UI of the game is a hell of a lot closer to finalised.
     
    Shadlington, Jul 27, 2011
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  3. Strech

    Strech KAG Guard Tester

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    ipad = waste of money
     
    Strech, Jul 28, 2011
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  4. illu

    illu En Garde! Donator Tester

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    If a game only uses keyboard (jump'n'run, racing, beat'em'up, etc.) or only mouse (angry birds, puzzle-games, etc.) it's possible to port it and very likely can become successful on such a platform. But every game which uses WASD for movement and mouse for looking/aiming is useless on a touchpad device imo.
    So...no +1 for iOS from me.
     
    illu, Jul 28, 2011
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  5. Garciat

    Garciat Bison Rider Global Moderator

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    It'd be quite simple, actually. The way I see it, a virtual joystick can be used for movement, while panning can be controlled by dragging the screen with a single finger. Two-finger click+drag would enable aiming/charging and releasing that would trigger the attack action. Three-finger could be used for shielding, I guess.

    Either way, I'd rather that devs focused on getting the main game released.
     
    Garciat, Jul 28, 2011
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  6. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Maybe far far far in the future, but we're talking a year minimum. We'd like to get it done before thinking about ports.
     
    Geti, Jul 28, 2011
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  7. saniblues

    saniblues KAG Guard Tester

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    Implementing this game on a touchscreen actually wouldn't be that hard, as far as controls go. You'd just have to, you know, Frankenstein the game into working better on a system that doesn't use the mouse. Builder's a no-brainer.

    And I'd personally go with an Android port since all you need is the Android SDK and general knowledge of Java to make stuff for it. Plus, it's open source; if you don't wanna go through the trouble of getting it on their market, you can just upload it to the website and install it that way.
     
    saniblues, Jul 28, 2011
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