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The worst side of it is, that it drags the rest of the mobile game ecosystem down with it. Whenever I browse the Google Play Store, it is an unplessant experie
by Farbklex 6y ago
The worst side of it is, that it drags the rest of the mobile game ecosystem down with it.
Whenever I browse the Google Play Store, it is an unplessant experience. It is hard to find out which games are "real" games without the very exploitive mechancis (of course, it is a spectrum, so it's not always easy to tell). It is hard to find out which features the games have: Singelplayer, multiplayer, offline playable, gamepad support?
Especially the last part annoyed me when I tried out a new android controller but couldn't figure out which game would actually work with it.
But there are good games available on mobile. They are just burried under a lot of unpleasent ones.
Long story short, I started developing my own, gamepad optimized game launcher for android which offers more of a console-like experience. Should I ever invest way more time in it, I'll add my own search and filter overlay for the play store…
- tubularhells 6y agoGoogle will van your application if you do a filtered Play store search, so make sure it is available on F-Droid and elsewhere.
- nsb1 6y ago....like...down by the river?? ;)
- wincy 6y agoOriginal meaning is the FBI van shows up and arrests you, I think it’s morphed to a van shows up and puts a black bag over your head, or your app in this case, and your app gets disappeared. I first saw the term on 4chan in like the mid 2000s.
- novaleaf 6y agono. parent is sarcastically referring to a (very old now, circa 1990) saturday-night-live skit where the actor always ends up mentioning that he lives "in a van, down by the river" I think parent poster means that there are no other places to put the app/launcher.
- wincy 6y agoRight I know the van down by the river sketch with Chris Farley, but the parent post is almost definitely using the verb “vanned” to mean the app will get disappeared.
- tubularhells 6y agoNo, I the phone just autocorrected 'ban' to van. You people can be really fucking strange at times..
- bitwize 6y agoHey, it's SV. Living in a van down by the river is the new dream.
- PicassoCTs 6y agoName/Type of Game + Open Source
- hi_mom 6y agoOn iOS Apple launched Apple Arcade to combat this and I must say, those games are pretty good. I seem to recall Google launching a similar service?