On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Steve Barr <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/23/09, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: >> So if I'm a customer, I could buy, say[1], a game on Friday, play all >> weekend and return it on Monday. >> >> Google has got to be joking. >> >> [1] Arcade games are more vulnerable to this WTF because you can >> literally play the entire game in 1 weekend unless it's *very* hard. > > So design games with replay value. Randomize things, periodically release > downloadable levels, whatever.
Good point, and I'm already working on many of these. > > Once Google gets its act together and stops being the laughing stock > of the mobile world, there is the potential for games and other > software to be better on the Android platform because a) they can be > due to a better programming/runtime environment and b) they have to be > because of the Market policies. Actually I very much doubt the "better programming/runtime environment" especially in terms of performance. You could google a bit for performance benchmarks between G1 and iphone, but in 1 sentence -- due to the almighty Dalvik VM in Android, iPhone's slower, and single-core processor provides faster and better user experience. Cheers > > Steve > -- > Yes, Chinese is easy if people speak slowly to you, in proper tones > and without an accent. But this is not how Chinese is spoken. -- > renzhe > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
