Gridrunner Android Available for DOWNLOAD !

[PVB]

Nah, can't blame them, just nice to know they're actually interested in the game.

[everklear]

Downloaded, played a bit, and donated.

Thinking about it, this one donation amounts to roughly twice what I've spent on Llamasoft iOS games in the last couple of years, and Apple isn't getting any of it. Hopefully Paypal's fees aren't punitive.

The amount feels much more appropriate, somehow, than one or two dollars/quid.

Here's hoping the new approach results in a sustainable lifestyle.

[Baggypants]

Works on my new ninja-nomake 7" ICS tab

[pyroxian]

Got it and donated Works fine on my Transformer T101 tablet. Didn't work on my HTC desire, but that's a piece-of-crap with no storage space, and I really should upgrade it so no surprises there...

Upgraded to a shiny new s3 and it plays great!

[PVB]

Got it and donated Works fine on my Transformer T101 tablet. Didn't work on my HTC desire, but that's a piece-of-crap with no storage space, and I really should upgrade it so no surprises there...

Upgraded to a shiny new s3 and it plays great!

Nice.

[Rubisco]

Are you 100% positive that the game is running full speed on the ZTE-BLADE? Have you seen the videos of the iOS version running to compare?

Now I've had a look, no it's not Nowhere near.

Neither is it running at full speed on the G300.

It's mainly the baddies that seem slower, everything else seems less affected...

[r1ckyrock]

I picked up an ASUS Transformer TF201 over the weekend and have now had a chance to muck about with Gridrunner on it. Runs very nicely. Rocks with Steel Series Free controller. I am happy. I suspect this will be my preferred method of play from now on. My tradition of buying hardware specifically for playing Llamasoft games continues...

[gilesgoat]

These are the kind of responses that make me think "Ok, MAYBE I can do another Android port"

OK guys "help request"

This is "the main thing" that actually is "bottleneck" that slows down LOT ( if not to say "all" ) in this moment for me
making android ports.

As simple as that let's say I have an Eclipse ( Juno ) project.

That project is split in many folders containg various bit and pieces.

70% of those bits and pieces are "common" 30% is "game dependent".

In Vs Studio / XCODE there's the thing you can "add a file into the project as a link", it means you create your project
structure but when you do an "add existing file to the project" you can actually add it as a "link" to another folder.

Could not find a way to do that in Eclipse, for some reason it did not work.

I still have to see if I can re-organize better all that stuff.

Can't remember what kind of shit was happening if I was trying to create Project 'B' and tell it to share some folders
from project 'A' but something was not working.

What would be a good way to organize a project like that ? What I want is to have all that 70% of source file
literally shared between Gridrunner/Five a Day/GoatuP/etc. so if I touch something in it it "automatically" means
it's been modified for all the other games too.

[bcass]

Don't you just need to include your shared items in your build path?

Right click on the project you want to link things to > Build Path > Configure Build Path. Then link other projects and libraries from the Projects and Libraries tabs.

[Mr_Loon]

These are the kind of responses that make me think "Ok, MAYBE I can do another Android port"
....

Yay, that sounds rather promising

Do you have any plans to release Gridrunner for Android on the Google Play store / Amazon marketplace etc.? Hope so as it could well lead to quite a few highly deserved donations for you guys. My understanding is that you don't have to jump through hoops to release something on Google play, as per XBLA / Steam etc.

Best of luck with the Android ports, really looking forward to Super Ox Wars.

[gilesgoat]

Well at the very moment I am extremely busy setting up stuff to "start getting into higher gear" with the TxK project, there's really lot to do we have some well defined deadlines and targets "well defined in time".

But as soon as I'll can I'll re-check a bit all that stuff.

About the donations .. there .. is .. will be .. "other stuff already prepared" but don't worry you'll be notified when time will be

Literally now we have "lot of work in hands"

[Mr_Loon]

I know you guys are not really into marketing and such like but it strikes me as a 'no brainer' that you should release Gridrunner for Android on the Google Play Store. There are not many fully featured 'free' games available, and any that I have found tend to attract a lot of downloads.

It would make sense to add things like back button support before doing this but even in its present incarnation I reckon you could see 100K+ downloads and hopefully a few additional donations as well.

Anyone else feel the same way?

It seems that you're hiding your talents behind a rather large bush, which is a real shame IMHO.

Also it might make sense to add a link to the download page in the initial post of this thread just in case people come here via a web search.

From a personal perspective I have no problem whatsoever getting software from the Llamasoft site but my guess is you'll massively restrict your potential audience if you continue to avoid release via the Play store etc.

[buddh4sack]

These are the kind of responses that make me think "Ok, MAYBE I can do another Android port"

This is the best news I've gotten today. I do hope you guys continue with many more Android ports.

As for the Eclipse code management; looks to me like you could just put the common code in its own project, then add that project in the Properties->Java Build Path->Projects tab?

[PVB]

Spotted another minor typo on this page:

http://www.minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/pictures.php

historycal when it should be historical.

[Rubisco]

Spotted another minor typo on this page:

http://www.minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/pictures.php

historycal when it should be historical.

hysterical.