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Maybe its the right time to drop ARMv6 support now? Or maybe just for iOS? Since it is more important to support the full display of the new iPhone 5.
As important as it is to support the latest and the greatest, it is equally important to support what people have then to leave them high and dry (just my 2 cents)
In an enterprise setting a lot of Larger organisations have just migrated from XP to Win7 and might be looking at Office 2011 as they have to consider compatibility for all of their legacy apps. So in that sense there is (or rather was) an equally large base of XP users are there was for Windows 7 (while majority of windows 7 could have been pirated, XP were enterprise licenses with EA in place)
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thank you for providing a roadmap.
I have a question : this roadmap seems to describe a realistic (and cautious) path for the development of Gideros Mobile.
From what I see (and I might be wrong) this progress seems linear : you have X resources today, so you will be able to develop [X*time] features in the coming month.
In a previous discussion that I had started, I asked a bit more informations about how Gideros will grow and scale in the future.
So my question is : does this roadmap take in account a scale in resources (more funds, higher number of developers and other team members, etc...) or is it only based on the resources that you have at your disposal, for certain, *today*?
My understanding is that if you had taken in account scale of resources, the roadmap would be more ambitious and the time scale much shorter.
But there are also high chances that I'm mistaking.
So, I am curious to know more about it
We wanted to give a realistic time frame and keep promises. The roadmap is not a static one. It will evolve and change with time. We will keep you updated when there are changes.
Cheers!
It's not unrealistic and incautious to expect a scale in resources and features delivery, and this is why I was asking for more informations.
https://deluxepixel.com
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/15190
I am (genuinely) wondering what would be the result if devs were asked about desktop support vs windows 8 and woud have liked to see a call for feedback (polldady) for example.
What is the position of our market (devs) on that subject?
Is the rationale of chosing Wp8 first based on seeing the bigger opportunity in "Being first on a new market" vs "Being on a market with lot of competition *but* a proven market with high demand"?
The simple fact that people trust Apple with their credit card informations (repeated buying act, brand recognition, people want play the same game on several devices with 1 game save) makes me see this market as a bigger opportunity, with successful strategies that can be analyzed, etc...
Same for any kind of desktop support that Gideros could provide.
In my mind it would be easier to sell a game to the same customer several times (different devices) than trying to convince a new market.
But I clearly lack experience in the domain of app publishing.
Will people adopt Wp8? Will people trust the store as much as they do with Apple? Probably yes? But that is still something to be proven.
Also what is Gideros' customer base?
Is the number of devs who will invest in a Microsoft mobile device for testing higher than the number of us who already own a Desktop/Laptop?
So I am really wondering (in a very positive manner) what was the biggest decision factor and what do other devs think, I'd like to know what I am missing so that I can take advantage of the opportunity in the future.
Seems I forgot to answer @ar2rsawseen in the other thread where he asked how good Number Rush on Windows 8 (not WP8) sales were. So, let me make it here btw.
Till now I've only made $1 on Number Rush W8
while I've already had quite a good profit on Number Rush for iPad, the ROI is more than 200% (if taking into account our license for supporting it on the other platform for a partner, it's more than 1000%)
There was an article on the internet about Rubicon only making less than $100 (or something like that) on W8 for their rather successful Great Little/Big War game on iOS.
(Update link: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Windows+8/Great+Big+War+Game/news.asp?c=47147)
The impression for W8 till now is quite disappointing.
Still have no chance to try on WP8 though.
Anyway, it's just my (and Rubicon's) story, it may not be the fact for other developers (?!)
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• Render-to-texture
• Clipping
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That's what I _desperately_ need! Please give us the glPush-Matrix and glPop-matrix command, and let us render to texture; the way to do this is as simple as it's done in Cocos:
-Push current matrix, create a new context, hand it to Lua user
-Allow Lua user access to it by drawing to texture
-Pop matrix
I need this urgently for drawing my darkness layer.... (see my problem described here:
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/2397/alphablending-problem-setblendfunc#Item_1)
When can we expect the "Near Future"...? 3 to 6 months from September is... about now...?
=P~
By the way....thanks for Gideros and for this great community.
The Company that has me and my team building a suite of apps for release in 2014 and 2015, aimed at, Ipad 1rst, then Android second, with Windows mobile coming 3rd, I would prefer not to have to write the whole app in Native windows when the time comes. and the investors will think we are miracle workers to release an android version in weeks, when they have already scheduled 8 months.
Any schedule on Windows Mobile?
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