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I would pay a lot of money to be able to play these games on my smartphone. There could be a market for a studio that licenses desktop games IP and makes mobil
by sandGorgon 6y ago
I would pay a lot of money to be able to play these games on my smartphone.
There could be a market for a studio that licenses desktop games IP and makes mobile games out of them.
- panpanna 6y agoI think there is a large community on android for this kind of stuff DIY style. Probably why monkey island was released on ios only, so it has some drawbacks too.
- asimovfan 6y agoI think you can play monkey island on Android with ScummVM. And all the games that work with ScummVM.
- sandGorgon 6y agoNot talking about an emulator. It's fundamentally taking the assets and art and making a mobile first gaming experience. For example, take Braid - that whole time skipping mechanic. I'm pretty sure there are ways to do that mechanic on the mobile...but you can't emulate. It could make for a good business model. You are taking out the cost of design, story, art direction, everything.. because you're licensing it. You are basically creating a game engine company that licenses assets, story and gameplay.
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- carlio 6y agoI'm pretty sure that's Aspyr Media's (https://www.aspyr.com/about https://www.aspyr.com/about) business model. At least, I know they're the ones who ported Fireaxis' Civilization games to OSX and Linux.
- TonyTrapp 6y agoI have to doubt that Amnesia would "work" on a smartphone. The tiny screen would remove a lot of the immersion. Amnesia is not (just) about finishing the game - it's about immersing yourself in the horror.
- sandGorgon 6y agosure - i have a chromecast as well. i can mirror my phone screen on my TV in full HD as well. A phone is far far far more powerful than you think. And the new Snapdragon 865 are beasts.
- hoten 6y agoIsn't there significant latency when screen casting a phone?
- sandGorgon 6y agoPeople play Fortnite/pubg on their TV by casting through the mobile - very popular. Remember, these are twitchy FPS games. Stuff like Amnesia is much much slower (in fact most games) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhfxeXxvN6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhfxeXxvN6s
- Liquid_Fire 6y agoNote that this video is not casting through a Chromecast wirelessly, but over HDMI. In my experience, screen mirroring over WiFi to a Chromecast is barely good enough to watch a video (even then it stutters occasionally), so playing a game would be a bad experience. My phone and Chromecast are both severel years old though - perhaps it works better on newer models.
- robotnikman 6y agoThere already are. Feral Interactive is one I can think of off the top of my head.
- Jach 6y agoYou can do that with the Steam Link app if you have a copy on your PC, and Microsoft now has (will have?) a similar thing to play in their cloud if you have an xbox copy/if it's on game pass. Playing on your local network isn't bad for latency, though these sorts of games aren't especially latency sensitive so I imagine the cloud experience wouldn't be terrible either.
- ghostDancer 6y agoIf it's matter of size ,is already ported to the Nintendo Switch . https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/amnesia-collection-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/amnesia-collection-swi...