Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Difference Between Mouse Clicks and Touches, Robots and Fruit….

alright! long time no update but i've been busy working away. last week i FINALLY got the pale one to work for mobile devices. which was a huge chore, and heres why,

Unlike Apple phones which are all made to certain specs (all iPhone 4's are the same W/ the exception of storage space) the Android operating system is open source, this means anyone who makes a phone can use Android. which is great for them BUT unfortunately this leads to a massive range in the quality of phones. anyone can throw together a cheap phone with terrible parts and plastic screens that break if you breath to heavy in their direction SO its harder to sure the games made for android are One Size Fits All.  so to slightly counter this and give people with higher quality phones or people playing on tablets i created an HD version of that pale one with higher resolution textures, enhanced game assets (the models that make up the game levels, things like trashcans, mailboxes, and so on) i also added more game objects into the level because the stronger systems can handle more objects being rendered at a time.


Theres just a few screen shots to show mostly the texture resolutions upgrades, Also you can see a bit of the extra detail i was able to put on the trashcan, its a smoother cylinder with a more detailed lid. its the little things in life!

so this week my goal(hopefully an attainable goal) is to touch up the code for The Pale One and Pull! and get those moved over and out on IOS!  hopefully the biggest thing i'll have to fix is that Android lets me use if (Input.getMouseButtonDown(0)) as an alternative to telling it to look for touches. this is nice because i can easily test the games in unity using my trusty mouse. UNFORTUNATELY  IOS says that not allowed i must use touches! assuming thats all i really have to fix it shouldn't take any time at all to get these games switched over and get em' out there to everyone with an iPhone/ipad with a hunger for skeet shooters or moister games!

have a wonderful week guys and an awesome april fools!

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