Telltale games for Android
Anyone knows that they will/won't release their games for android? Because iPhones, iPods and iPads are too expensive for me, and I have a smartphone with Android OS.
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I think a lot of developers are too quick to breeze over android. No-one expects them to support every device on the market. Ignoring the underpowered and minority models still leaves you with a sizeable extra demographic dying for some decent games.
Us tablet users are just dying to try the latest telltale has to offer! And numbers can't be the issue there, after all, Sam and max was one of the first iPad games out there!
(source: http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/upscaling-for-tablets-how-telltale-planned-for-the-ios-release-of-the-walki)
That should at least give some hope to Android users. But a good point is made in there in that piracy is a huge issue with regards to Android apps. One of the top guys at Sports Interactive says that this is the biggest problem with Android, that it's so easy to pirate stuff and if that continues to happen there will be little chance of quality apps for Android devices.
i personally have been a user of android from day one, and love the os to pieces, i have a very short stint with ios and hated it - in fact i returned the handset after only 3 days of use (well the use that ios imposes).
i currently own a htc one x and the awesome nexus 7 tab, as well as the older galaxy tab 7.0 and an archos 101. but i know for a fact that if telltale ever bring thier back catalogue to the platform then i would purchase most if not all the games.
if you decide to sell the games it easy - just release them on the tegra zone and you will know only higher end devices will be able to get the games.
when i see games like gta 3 and ripspeed running in HD it makes me sad that i cannot play my monkey island games on the devices, infact i think machines like the nexus 7 is ideal to run games like this. please telltale get the games to the ever increasing army of android users...
Piracy does not hurt sales. Do they really think that Apple products are piracy free?
Man you could even use something like kickstarter.com to get the money up front and then you wont have to worry about the sales part.
Im not going to buy an apple product so I can play this game... But I would totally buy it for android.
Yes I would love to see an Android version of The Walking Dead. I have an iPad 3 but am selling it as it has been replaced with a Nexus 7. If you ever decide to release an Android version, I'll be one of your newest customers.
European stats are much more balanced between the two platforms (at least for my apps)
In china, every app had to be hacked because it was impossible to purchase any app at all.
The possibility to hack apps has driven market adoption for android.
All that led to this consensus that android is less profitable than IOS.
For sure it is less profitable now. Most good tablet apps people would pay for are on IOS only !
Now that things are changing, this happens : http://en.paperblog.com/google-play-profitability-growing-like-weed-366263/
But it takes time to educate users, and your communication channels must evolve to reach android users.
Porting is not enough, communication is key.
My two apps have 4 and 5 star reviews, one is a port of a c++ app, features only 300 lines of code more than the original progam, is an audio app with opengl visualizations, have had more than 57 000 downloads and sold for 2 $ each.
On Ios as I couldn't port the live screen feature, it didn't sell as much, except it is heavily hacked on jailbroken devices... don't know why yet.
As a side note, I wrote the app and tested it on 3 devices, and got only 2 crash reports yet from android users...
"[...]fact that most Android devices on the market are not all that great for gaming[...]"
Huh?
Android devices are in fact the best, most powerful devices you can get for mobile gaming. CPU-wise and GPU-wise. The most powerful smartphones/tablets on the market are android devices. Compare the specs of the current flagship of Apple, the laughable Iphone 5, with the Galaxy S4 for example. Oh, by the way not forget that there's an 8-core version of it, too.
I highly doubt the Iphone 6 will have something like that, let alone the 5S model. And then theres a new, better android device anyway.
Android is also undeniably the best platform for any kind of mobile software, because there are no licensing costs, no review of the apps you make, an easy do develop open platform, most android devices have a usb otg port with support for a lot of hardware, a hdmi port, and most importantly expandable memory.
Because that's the most insane thing apple does. They want 100$ more for double memory, and people buy it anyway. Meanwhile, I pay 15$ for a class 10 additional 16GB micro sdcard. *trollface*
So, Telltale please start seriously considering android ports, because by now the platform Android has overstripped Apple as a whole company. Because ultimately it's a huge, and growing market that you are missing.
Walking Dead: Season One is NOW available on Android and it works great on my (High end Android Phone) Samsung Galaxy S3 and (Low End Android Phone) Acer Liquid E2..;)
Why walking dead filnal season don't come on Android???
I want an android port of upcoming games and the final season of walking dead
Yeah me too, especially TWAU 2 and life is strange 2 but I think there won't be android port for TWD final season unless someone comes up with fan made port thing.