Skyguarder you sound like an old vinyl that keeps poppin to the sam-, poppin to the sam-, poppin to the sam-, poppin to the sam-.

@Pery

You mean like the actual game into an apps?

Cause you know you can log onto this website and run the game on your phone? Or can you....?

All in all, do some research, there's a Thread going on with Skyguarder repeating that

"IT'S JAVA AND IT DOESN'T WORK WITH APPS"

It could but it would take too much effort and time and cost too much money that couldn't make it profitable.

It would just be wasted effort and time wasted.

Edit: Time they put on upcoming events and new ideas (Battle Sprites) and money they use to pay people to put time into those things I mentionned

Elaborate

We've been fighting here about mobile apps.

-1
unless you give huge detailed topic about:
how we can play this game on mobile
development on java
play with the others pc players

is not possible, unless they make another game based on that universe to mobile

just think about the movement and aim

automatic -1

+1 because I can actually value an idea on its appeal, which is what should happen in the suggestions forums.

I'm sure a game based on a casual form of gameplay and with a revenue model similar to those that have proven quite successful for other mobile game developers, a game which would have access to a larger market, one more willing to engage in micro transactions, whose gameplay is easily adaptable into such a format, doesn't have anything to gain from developing a client capable of running in a mobile. </le sarcasm>

> Leave. Right now.

Hater's gotta hate. Spiral Knights has even begun allowing its micro-transaction purchases to be effectuated by SMS.

> Mobile gaming is severely incompatible

Move by pressing where you want to go, fire by tapping the fire button or double tapping, shield (if you need to) by tapping the shield button or holding your finger on your character. Incompatible indeed! If Galaxy On Fire 2 could do it, so can Spiral Knights.

Oh, and Galaxy On Fire 2 was ported to Android, to iOS, and later it was even released on Steam for the PC.

> This would require remaking the game entirely in a different ;engine,

They can outsource the work. Considering their income and who finances them, this should be no problem. The textures, meshes, animations, music, all could be recycled. Eve Online has had no problem reworking their game onto a mobile platform, they've even demoed it several times. That game is considerably more complex than Spiral Knights. The biggest obstacle is saying no.

> I don't recall seing that anywhere...

Do your research.

> looked that game up, it's a full 3D, third-person space sim.

So your problem with Galaxy On Fire 2 is that it requires more sensitive, complicated controls? You have throttle control, you have controls for manuevering, you have controls for dodging, you have you main weapon and your missile weapons. All this requiring precision control from your touch screen to shoot down enemy targets.

> That is an inaccurate statement

Don't you think I know from experience what I can and cannot play on my iOS and my Android? Can you please stop telling me what I could or couldn't play simply because of you didn't put in enough effort to enjoy it, or were simply unable to enjoy it? A lot of people enjoy playing games in their mobile, and they don't find them "incredibly difficult to control". You are not every man.

> If they outsource it, you end up with literally hitler.

Regarding outsourcing, you really haven't explained your logic agaisn't outsourcing. Simply because you've stated it in the past doesn't mean it means anything to me. Bethesda Softworks does this all the time with their franchises.

> Eve Mobile

I'm glad you finally looked up Eve Online Mobile, and yes, it is a simplied port of the game. They can actually render ships in the game, but they are still working on what parts they can and cannot cram in the game engine. At least perhaps it shows you how those apps are possible, and if you continue to do your homework, are quite prevalent accross MMOs, so it might at least compel you to not oppose those app suggestions so adamantly in the future.

I'm not sure how much more you believe Spiral Knights would need to be simplified, considering the game logic behind the engine is incredibly simple. If the client were ported, meshes could be rendered into sprites, particle effects could be reduced, all while running natively. There already are plenty of examples games for mobile tha are as interactive. Even Dead Space has given a go at porting their franchise to mobiles, and it has been quite succesfull.

Is this where Windows RT is actually useful at? :3 Playing Spiral Knights on the go?
-1 Like Irthan said, the problem isnt with JAVA itself, (Java runs on Andriod) its just too complex to port over to a mobile game. Also, SK files are too big.

If anything, the developers can make the level Treasure Vault: Fortune smiles to the Greedy to an app. :o

Your statements are becomingly increasingly horrible as you carry on in this thread.

As in, you objectivelyhave more control with a mouse and keyboard
Obviously. The control, within the context of the game, however; doesn't really change. 4 spots for vials in the top, a 4 directional arrow system in the left, two buttons for attack and shield, and one button (or just a slide motion) for swapping weapons. You could even implement that the attack button acts as a joystick, allowing you to attack in any direction.

That UI, gives you the same control as SK itself.. just in a smaller space (of course, non-essential bits will be lost, or more difficult to get to). Frustration towards is more about fluency than actual functionality. In a smaller space, it's hard to be fluent with your movements. That's just an issue with mobile gaming as a whole, not necessarily UIs.

lolwut? But seriously, outsourcing could lead to a bad mobile port, along with late updates due to having to develop first for the PC and then for mobile and/or the game being just somehow different from the SK we all know. I'm not saying change is bad, but I would want the mobile Sk to be as similar to the PC one as possible.
Outsourcing does not mean a bad port, or the outsourced party is bad at their job. Please, never say that again. A lot of companies outsource functionality they themselves do not support, and it is very successful. Porting from PC to mobile as changes occur is not a mammoth task. A lot of the code used will be the same, or, at least, similar. If communication is strong, SK Mobile can be a success.

About EVE Online.. it's not exactly surprising the game itself isn't hitting mobile. It's a helluva game. SK is somewhat more simplistic.

Regardless of all that, I think the OP was stating to not port SK over to mobile; but to create a SK-like game, which consists of, say, a few clockworks levels; so you can earn yourself a buck or two while on the go... not take on Vanaduke.

From the knight's view? Like First Person?

@Canine-Vladimir:

I realize that you were being facetious, but Windows RT doesn't support OpenGL or even OpenGL ES, only (partial) Direct3D. As for the file size, lots of phones/tablets have or can have 8GB+ of storage.

Spiral Knights is working fine on my windows mobile (except for insufferable lag).

**NOTE: Compatible with iPad 2 and up, iPhone 4 and up, and iPod 5th Gen. OTHER DEVICES ARE NOT FULLY SUPPORTED AND ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO WORK**

And is this a JAVA game? Was it changed to a different language?

@Hadi: That's turn based. We know you could create a game in the same graphics style, but the issue is controllability and the fact that SK is written in Java. That game was not written in Java.