Ok looking for a bit of Android testing.

[gilesgoat]

Most people aren't making anything on Android either, so it doesn't come as a big surprise really. Like the article states though, if you're already developing for Android and want a few thousand extra sales you might as well add controller support (if your game is suitable for controllers) and release on Ouya too.

Hum ... interesting/curious.

Maybe it's a bit too early, maybe I don't know .. nobody could have told 'for sure' what would have been of Ouya but
IMHO I was expecting a bit better than this, after all 'the price is low' and 'if you want something that does not cost
the moon and does something' the Ouya seemed at least 'a bit interesting'.

However got the impression the Ouya failed precisely 'in what it should have done' (?) starting with quality control
problems like "the controller is shit, use another one" and/or people claiming that "after all is not such a powerful thing" so
you can't make "big things".

But the price is cheap.

Now what's funny/ironic in this case is that "all the games that could go ok on Android so far" are "vertical" and cannot
really easy be moved into horizontal the only ones that are horizontal are the "primordial ones" which are bit of a mess
to convert/port to Android ( or anything else ).

Anyway in this very moment I am very tight/intense schedule ( plus other things as well ) there's no way I can put one
finger in the Android ( or anything else ) world.

At least not for some weeks more.

Thing is, would this be Ouya or anything else would be really nice to have something you could say "ok, I invest time, I
develop something on, I get some reasonably satisfactory result, I can continue to go on".

The problem with Andorid is that "since it exists" almost ALL the time I heard it over and over and over and over that
".. but the mayority don't really make much money on Andorid at all".

And I continue to hear this, and this is yet another of those stories.

So what the heck one should think / do about it ? You tell me , I really don't know.

Again ( that's the other story that you hear over and over about Andorid ) is ".. yes if you have spare time/resources
to do it do but don't expect too much otherwise .. ".

It does not sound great does it ?

Anyway in some future there will be something, but certainly not before something else is finished, the problem is I do
not have those "spare time/resources" at all so far.

[Molloy]

One things for sure. There aren't enough good Android games. Wether the Minotaur games would sell well if ported I don't know but I'm still looking forward to playing them. Is the donationware model working for you? Can't imagine not being in the playstore helps visibility.

[gilesgoat]

One things for sure. There aren't enough good Android games. Wether the Minotaur games would sell well if ported I don't know but I'm still looking forward to playing them. Is the donationware model working for you? Can't imagine not being in the playstore helps visibility.

It's a bit difficult to tell, I mean yes we did receive quite some donations but we also have to continue more with that model.

We DO HAVE some things we will and want to put out, the problem is that being 2 guys doing all we do there's only so much we manage to do.

To say one yesterday all in a sudden comes out "a never seen before bug" that made both me and Yak go "a bit mental" as in "OH ($&£"*(&$(*£&$(* just before we have to package and show this thing !" .. yesterday past midnight I was looking at a screen in half despair, Yak was grunting somewhere else .. luckily with much this & that
this morning we found out the cause and fixed it.

This reminded me also I should start checking a couple of other things, tomorrow also we should drop in town and get the posters and a few other things, on the top of this I think I am getting a cold my head is a bit bonkers and my sinus is bothering me.

But yeah we have to continue a bit with that thing, people that supported/supports us "deserves some some" and we do have it, just have again "to package it all and put it out nicely".