Google has focused entirely on Android gaming center announced this week, complete with achievements, leaderboards and save games in the cloud. But is this enough to forge? Android into a full game platform The fact is that making Android versions of games from many developers bottom of the priority list and games usually come first available in Apple’s App Store.
many games maker is the afterthought, something that simply must be done. Even today it is difficult to find that is only available for the Linux platform, or a developer who is willing to explain to Android. His eternal love is a game People may or developing Android games, they seem not to have fun.
It’s a jungle
When Apple in 2008 launched its App Store, this resulted in a change of the field of mobile games. The games were accessible to people who never had a dedicated handheld – such as a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP -. Would purchase
There are also a lot of success stories to point. Thus a global phenomenon Angry Birds developer Rovio Games and a hero of the game industry. OMGPOP, the developer of Draw Something, threatened to go bankrupt but was saved by this game. Seven weeks later, the company received an offer of $ 180 million. The message was clear: the right app does more than just pay your bills, you can even be a rock star with
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Apple vs. Google
Although Apple has put the ball on rolling Google was not far behind. The Google Play Store has matured since Android was launched, and many of the apps from the App Store are now in the digital store of Google to find. Android also has a higher market share than iOS. This Android is the most widely used mobile operating system in the world. In all respects, the Google Play Store the ideal setting for any developer – ready to be
mined a digital goldmine.
But is it really the paradise like Google would have us believe? Chris Pruett thinks so. He works at Robot Invader, a development studio for games from Silicon Valley with a penchant for cute monster movies and action films from the fifties. Both Wind-up Knight as the latest game from the company Rise of the Blobs are consistently praised in the press. Pruett says sales on Android twice as fast as in iOS.
Quantity is definitely a factor. Since the launch, Wind-up Knight downloaded 7 million times, and nearly 5 million of those downloads coming from Android users, reports Pruett. “In our case, we earn our Android version significantly more than the iOS counterpart, although both versions are exactly the same game and get as much attention from their owners platform.”
Spacetime Studios, developer of the mobile MMO franchise Legends, has a similar opinion. In an interview with our sister site TechHive CEO Gary Gattis commented: “From day to day we actually make more on the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store The average yield per iOS user a lot higher, but we have so much more. Android users that this difference is easily offset. “
Android gaming is not fun
Such positivity for the Google Play Store is obviously not universal. Owen Faraday, editor of Pocket Tactics, who wrote some time ago for Wired about Android gaming, called the Google marketplace “a desolate wilderness.”
Faraday quoted several developers, many of whom Android as a necessary evil seem to consider that is plagued by digital pirates. Piracy is a highly malignant issue. Miles Jacobson, Studio Director of Sports Interactive ever reported that 9 of the 10 Football Manager Handheld games were as many as illegal. And although Madfinger Games still intends to provide support for Android users, revealed Anna Porizkova earlier Gamasutra that at one point 90 percent of Shadowgun games were pirated copies, before this figure eventually dropped to a still remarkable 78 percent.
Nicholas Vining, chief technical officer of Gaslamp Games, for over ten years in the industry. Despite his work for various open source and Linux-related projects, he doubts slightly on the profitability of the platform. “The people I used to do contract work, encounter typically they – if they are lucky – to Android earn about 1 percent of what they would have to iOS If that’s right, earned we would with Dredmor-port never recoup our money. , and we would probably end up suffering from the loss deal. “
Epic Citadel
You can derive more from what is not explicitly said. Chair Entertainment launched in January the gorgeous looking Epic Citadel in the Google Play Store – three years after was to see the demo for the first time. Is that a positive indication of things to come? Maybe. Maybe not. In an interview with Mashable in 2011 left the Mustard brothers hinted that concerns about piracy one of the main reasons was that the Infinity Blade franchise was not made.
available for Android users“We are confident that the problem will be resolved and that the Google Play Store a viable place for game developers will be, but as yet this is not the case,” said Donald to Mashable. So “it’s not the technology, it is up to the business platform.”
It is now almost halfway through 2013, and piracy is still a problem. Here is another example of dissatisfaction with Android developers. Telltale Games impressed both the press and the public with its point-and-click adventure game The Walking Dead. Like the previously published series of comics and TV show, the game has an impressive number of awards received: In total, the game, which is divided into five episodes, over 80 ‘Game of the Year’ awards received. With such success would be an Android port. Been inevitable But to the disappointment of Android users everywhere, the long awaited port never happened.
In an interview with PA Report Telltale Games gave only a moderately positive explanation for the fact that there is no Android version of The Walking Dead has appeared: “The different hardware specifications, piracy and the state of the Android equivalent the App Store, making it very difficult to get to the Android operating system to convey. To address these problems with the Android platform to counter our games would our games built on a very different way and / or to be sold, while the current methods are working fine on all other platforms Will The Walking Dead:.? The Game ever appear on Android We hope so, but we have nothing to announce today “
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