I'm losing my favourite game

[venta]

I don't post about work here much. But just for once...

I work for a company that's been building a cross-mobile (and indeed cross-device, should you wish to play games on an internet-enabled telly or a high-powered toaster) platform for casual games. And our game store is now up and running:

www.antixgames.com

This is what our marketing department is calling a "soft launch", which appears to mean largely un-publicised. We support only a couple of phones[*] at the moment, and don't have a large range of games. But if you're willing to install a plug-in, you can pop along and try the games out in your (Windows) web browser.

Those of you who've heard me on the topic of work recently will instantly identify the actual bits I've actually been involved with :)

[*] Number of phones our software runs on: big. Number of phones our software runs on which have been properly tested and exhaustively verified and can be considered market quality: small.

Comments

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

I haz the Desire. I am supported.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Does it go, sir? Does it?

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Well i downloaded the game player app and that runs. Not tried an actual game. Bit peeved on the 1meg space overhead the player requires and it doesn't allow for shifting to the memory card. That won't win it any favours !

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Zoocube worked....One of the smaller ones and i managed to max out the trial on my first go. Not that i was exactly sure of what i was doing, i really should have read the instructions !

[venta.livejournal.com]

:)

Games go on the SD card (I think), which Android DRM'd games don't (I think). So you can get as many games as you want for your 1meg of storage instead of it adding up for each game...

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Yep. Does look like the game itself is on the SD card. There are quite a few apps that are paranoid, a few that need to be on the main memory and some that are just lazy.

Most the games being larger items are mostly on the SD card (there is an overheard so even mostly on the sd card it means there is 100-200k on the phone).

Would be a useful thing to point out to the development people to have a look at moving it onto the card ?

[venta.livejournal.com]

It was looked at some time ago, but isn't easy. There are problems to do with secure storage, I think (though I may be wrong, as I've had very little to do with the Android porting).

I think it's due to be looked at again, but it's not very high priority at present.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Also, apparently you can replay the trial as many times as you want... up to the time limit.

Which was news to me, it allowed to you try out the first three levels last time I interacted with it!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Isn't that kind of normal? Skype is 10meg and won't let you shift it!