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JordanC's Rayman Jungle Run (iPd)
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| [November 9, 2012 09:39:14 AM]
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Mobile games are probably the fastest growing game medium at the moment. Nearly every device these days is capable of connecting to some form of app store where thousands of games from platformers to shooters. Every type of game is now imagined on a mobile platform. There is a problem with the development of mobile games however; some developers don’t fully know the device their working on. They take a genera they want to work on, take a shooter for example, and ‘dumb it down’ so it can be played on a phone. That doesn’t work. All it leads to are a clunky control system and your thumbs taking up 60 percent of the screen. It flat out doesn’t work. When making a game for a mobile device, you can’t simply use the same control scheme as you would on a TV with a controller, you have to reimagine it. The developer that has done this the best is Ubisoft and Pasta Games with the platformer Rayman Jungle Run.
Many other platformers on mobile devices have attempted to be controlled in two ways. One is the familiar way, a D-pad on the screen with a button or two for the characters actions, or they take advantage of the accelerometer and have the player tilt the screen to make the character run. While these two ways work, they run into the familiar problem of not being able to see the screen because your fingers are in the way or the screen is tilted. The Rayman developers looked at platformers on mobile devices and found a constant: players are always moving forward. Usually the games are simpler than the platformers on consoles, so there is little to no need for backtracking. So Ubisoft and Pasta Games made a decision that mobile platformers should have made a long time ago, always have the character in motion. Platformers have taking advantage of this style before, but not many mobile ones have. It make the game seem more fluid, you don’t have to worry about precise movements on the touchscreen D-pad, it add a layer of replay ability to the game because if you miss an item there’s no turning around to get it, and it allows the screen to be seen which is great for what is arguably the best looking iOS game out there.
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JordanC's Rayman Jungle Run (iPd)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Friday 9 November, 2012
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