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UL not just a PC game

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:12 pm
by Koi-Wish
What do you guys think of playing UL on your smart phone/tablets?

Low bandwidth... Software rendered.... Hmmm I like it.

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:43 pm
by TigerSun
I posted this in the wrong section, sorry........

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:55 pm
by DiddyKong
Wow... Bringing this game back brought my teenage years rushing back to memory. My first ever RPG.

-DK

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:29 pm
by Koi-Raven
It might be a bad thing for my GPA this semester if I could play on iOS o.0

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:01 am
by Flagg
I'm gonna go ahead and take a stab in saying that porting the current version of UL to Android/iOS is all but impossible.

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:57 am
by cooki
Only if it's Kindle available :roll: I still have a flip phone, well I did...I washed it this week and I doubt it will work anymore. Anyway, or I have a blackberry.

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:18 pm
by Jiovanni
Be kind of hard to fight in it on tablet or smartphone, eh? Be very interested to see...

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:25 pm
by Jiovanni
Well, I know that Underlight is responsive to touchscreen as I have used it a few times on my desktop and laptop. And it works pretty nicely but never without a mouse or keyboard. I might have to master that if they are going down the mobile route.

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:53 pm
by Gerroz
I would absolutely love it if I could play on a tablet or even better a smartphone. During my mornings and early work hours I would catch the last few hours of the US evening events. And my boss would chop my head off. But what can you do?

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:26 pm
by Jiovanni
Gerroz wrote:I would absolutely love it if I could play on a tablet or even better a smartphone. During my mornings and early work hours I would catch the last few hours of the US evening events. And my boss would chop my head off. But what can you do?
Damn Vikings...

Re: UL not just a PC game

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:05 pm
by Craig
I'll have to agree with Flagg here on the all but impossible wagon. At least if you're wanting the original client to be ported. The original was written for DirectX 5 (I think it was 5. Don't remember. Too lazy to look it up right now.) DirectX is Windows only though I recall in the past someone trying to get it to work under linux via some WINE+DX libraries emulation with very limited (READ: most of the things didn't work, game was basically unplayable) success. If you want a mobile client, it would be better to just write a new one.