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0 pointsButtons8401y ago0 comments

It took them many months to get it on Android. It was wildly successful initially, and then it took many months to reach phones and missed much of the hype cycle. So I think it took them a lot of effort to port.

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fao_1y ago

> It took them many months to get it on Android.

It's surprising given that back in June? 2024 I just extracted the .love zip from the executable, patched a file or two, and merged it into the love android apk and it Just Worked. Just goes to prove the last 5% rule

edflsafoiewq1y ago

The difficulty of porting to mobile is generally changing the UI to work well on a small touchscreen.

gwervc1y ago

This. I'm making a game and I have an Android and iOS experimental branches. Even with a multiplatform framework (Monogame), compilation and basic run isn't a given. Then thing like small buttons needs biggee touch target, text input requires adaptation. All those 3 days + 1 day + a week + ... quickly adds up.

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occz1y ago

The desktop UI actually worked pretty much fine on mobile, to be honest. I ran it for a while using the porting methods available from the desktop binaries to an APK. The mobile UI basically just changes the interactions from a small button on the card to a drag-bases UI, which is slightly better on mobile.

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Kiro1y ago

Considering it's the first game to dethrone Minecraft on mobile it doesn't seem that it missed out on much.

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fao_1y ago

> It took them many months to get it on Android.

edflsafoiewq1y ago

The difficulty of porting to mobile is generally changing the UI to work well on a small touchscreen.

gwervc1y ago

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occz1y ago

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Kiro1y ago

Considering it's the first game to dethrone Minecraft on mobile it doesn't seem that it missed out on much.

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