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Matt Roszak @matt-likes-swords

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Looking into mobile games

Posted by matt-likes-swords - July 19th, 2013


I just got back from Sweden and have been doing research on mobile games.

I'm interested to hear from any developers who have tried developing mobile games or even just porting their Flash games.
I'm also interested to hear what your favourite mobile games are, so I can check them out.

Oh, and I'm still working on my new website a lot. It's got custom emoticons and a mailing list now! I'm also hosting a few of my games to find out what "unlimited bandwidth" means.

Looking into mobile games


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coolio

one that I liked for the android was inotia 3, if you could make something like that, id get it

I liked touch detective for android. I would like to see a mobile game that makes having a controller mandatory kinda like ape escape made the dual analogue stick mandatory. Touch screen only controls seem to be suited to games like visual novels and simulation games.

Bullet Heaven 2 coming to a mobile near you? xD

Bullet hell aint a popular enough genre!

I'm Willing to bet there's gonna be a EBF mobile game?

Here is something you can use to convert flash to html5 <a href="http://www.createjs.com/#">http://www.createjs.com/#</a>!/CreateJS

Im surprised you're going to develop games for mobile devices now, I even remember a while back on Facebook that you got annoyed for people asking you if you're gonna put your game on mobile devices. I'm pretty sure you've answered this before, but why the big interest on going mobile?

Oh and BTW, here are some games (ones that I have on my iPod that is) that went on mobile devices, but you can also play these games here on Newgrounds: Impossible Quiz, Crush the Castle, Doodle God, Sushi Cat, Bloons TD, Bloons TD4, Rebuild, and Infectonator.

You can check in with the developers of these games (if possible) and see what they know about putting flash games on mobile devices! :D

I was naive back then! Mobiles are more popular than PCs now.

Thanks for that list.

Will you make more regular flash animations

It sounds like, to me, that you haven't given up on Flash just yet. And I hope you don't, at least not yet. Just as I hope you haven't gotten sick of EBF yet. As a hardcore fan, I'd be upset never to see the characters again. I've already bookmarked kupogames and discovered the Mecha Dress Up through it. I didn't know about that one.
It was a load of fun, especially since I love machine, magitechnology, and steampunk monsters in... everything, so this was a ton of fun to play with. My only possible complaint with it was that I couldn't DO anything with the bot once I made it. Maybe a possible game in the fuuutuuure? Each of the bajillion parts giving stat boosts, various skills and abilities, and you pit your bot against NPC or other players' bots. Would seem like a ton of fun to me...
But I digress, I support your work, even if I have no money to donate to your cause.

Give up on Flash, pick up Unity or learn C#, branch out into anything that makes you more useful in more people, in more software, so that you'll be ready for changes in the future.
Or find someone who's already good at that, and collaborate with them just doing art while you find your feet in this new stuff.
Don't dedicate everything to mobile, it's like sinking all your time and money into a lottery ticket- Especially if you're not really experienced in the business and monetization side of games; you cannot just wing it.

Plan something really small that you'll definitely finish.

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes
Dead Ahead

Noted.

Super Hexagon.

try the peacekeeper

The simple fact that mobile games are more popular makes hundreds and hundreds of them come everyday to the App Store; only those who can afford publicity, such as big companies like Zynga or Gamesoft, will make big money out of it. As I-Smel put it, it's like sinking everything into a lottery ticket; you may get money, but there's an extremely big chance that you will get nothing or very few. I'd suggest to follow I-smel's suggestion, it would be exactly what I would do (and in some way I'm doing right now).

My favourite one is Blood Brothers it's a pretty fun game

You shoud try Punch Quest or Rise of the Blobs.

Try Jetpack Joyride

What is your opinion on Torque 2D its free and open source under MIT <a href="http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/22321">http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/vie w/22321</a>
Its one of the most powerful if not the most powerful 2d game engine.