Topic: App for smartphones

when is one going to be released, it would attract a whole bunch of new players!!

the game looks great, ts ready, gogo tongue

Re: App for smartphones

i said we should do this in chat awhile back. since its a free to play game, the app would be free so u would get new players joining, then they would see they can also play from their pc and stick around.

Re: App for smartphones

I think everyone said this a while back tongue

Not sure if this is on the agenda though - I have no expertise with making apps, and I think almost a whole re-write probably has to be done.  Or we could get another Dev who has experience with this stuff doing it /shrug

It would definitely solve a lot of mobile issues though.

Re: App for smartphones

Mhm

All the app would have to be is a kind of web loader which re-directs you to the mobile version of the site. seen it with other games, surely not hard for stefan.

the game would be available to millions of ppl, u know how many ppl look at free games on app stores? Alot.

Re: App for smartphones

even if you make it ,99 cent for the app ppol will stay buy it ;p

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Re: App for smartphones

I have seen this as well with a few other games, Currently right now. I dont think that we the players would want them to be focusing on an app at the current time, because there are other things that are surely to be added, that are more useful, and overall going to the make the game better, weither it be, interface things, actualy game mechanics or what ever it maybe and most importantly aswell is fixing some of the errors that are already in place.

Then maybe after that when the game is at a point where things are worked out and kinks are ironed, then maybe that is a direction that should be  thought about!

I do really think this isnt as hard as beleived but hey im no coder and no app designer!

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Re: App for smartphones

What I see to this game actually based only on numbers, and those image are only to make IC look good for today people. And for that I think mobile phone application may be better to have side data channel which not same with normal browser (pc or mobile browser). It give direct numbers (cash, resources, reports, planets, coords, etc), so display or processing can be mobile developers own, then we can have several options or themes from several developers. That also including map, which may be each developer already have own ideas how to implement map view. This also reduce bytes to download/upload from mobile application, which make everything can look faster even with slow internet.

Game mechanics in my opinion is quite good, no need much tweaking.

Re: App for smartphones

well thats pretty much what the mobile site does, atm, it strips alot of things down,

As for the map, i dont beleive that you will ever see an overlay for the map, perhaps maybe you can have an options of "themes" for the color the systems display like "MY planets" being blue while "your family" is yellow or something of the like.

I also think it would be good idea to also, be able to switch from the galaxy type background to something else with a color scheme for the font, but thats a totally different thread that has probally been started(going to look).

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