Update: New Better Job Complete
// December 18th, 2011 // By LordBron // iDevBlogADay
New Job Achievement Attained
I just wanted to take a moment to give an update from our last post. I wrote about how I needed to get back to one FT job to allow me to work on games as my second job in after hours. I’m proud to say that it has been completed.
Granted, there’s still a lot of stuff to “clean up” and it’ll take into January to really be going, but I should start to get some game dev time back relatively soon . However, it’s nice to see a plan come to fruition then be executed upon quickly. It sort of gives us hope that other plans we have in mind and in the works will also play out just as equally as good.
Game Ideas and Tech
While we’ve been getting our personal lives in order, it’s interesting to see our game dev play out. We knew our game needed some iOS 5 stuff, but it appears as if to get a full experience down right, we may need for the latest generation of tech to come out.
In September, I demo’d the game to some folks and while it worked well for them, it also hid some flaws in the system. The 4S seems to not suffer those problems which is great news for us, but bad news for our customers. In addition, we’re noticing some lag in our AirPlay setup. In addition, to really utilize AirPlay, we need to take advantage of the 4S dual-core A5. Prior to the 4s, you needed an iPhone, an iPad 2 and an AppleTV to play our game via AirPlay. With the 4S, and some trickier programming, you only need an iPhone and AppleTV to play. Of course, you can still just do iPhone to iPad gameplay as well, but we’re thinking AirPlay will likely be more fun.
Therefore, while fate threw a wrench in our game dev timeframe, it appears as though it may have been a blessing more than a curse. Only time will tell, of course.
Our next update should hopefully have some game play video of our game that should be pretty darn cool to see. See you then!
