It is a proven fact that %86 of all statistics are made up :D.
Btw, just intended this to be humerous. I know myself when I investigated
the two platforms for a portable device there really wasn't much that made
me want to choose Android owing to the complexity of the system and the lack
of support as far as games and other developments go, and just looking how
many games and accessible peaces of software there are for each system.
While there are certainly some more recent releases, that doesn't seemed to
have changed at least at the moment, indeed many of the more recent releases
are things like Stem Stumper or Mortalmaze which are already available on
other platforms, be that windows or Ios.
One fact I find extremely worrying about Android is that some games which
have both an Android and Ios version, have a version that is inaccessible on
Android. The Storm8 games for example, ---- or so I have had several people
from audiogames.net confirm. This I find quite worrying since it means that
if we're discussing access with a developer what they do for vo access on
Ios will be different in interface terms to Android and might not work as
coherently.
Just to be clear I'm not talking about underlying code hear or what language
a developer is using so much as I just mean things like correct labels on
buttons and controls in the Ap.
whether Google will iron these problems out in the future I don't know, but
I do find them a concern in terms of where Android access and accessible
games will end up.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Rivard" <wee1s...@fidnet.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More
Statistics can be disceiving. Years ago, there was a battle between the
American and National leagues as which was more popular. The American
league, according to statistics, was more popular. Ah. But what
statistics?? More tickets were sold for American League games. However, if
you looked at how many fans actually attended baseball games, there were
more fans actually going through the turnstiles at National League games.
More fans actually went to see the National League games. The American
League's focus was on sales and income, but the National League's focus was
on actual attendance.
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you! really! are! finished!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Draconis" <i...@dracoent.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT, Mac and More
Chiming in on these cross-platform topics seems to be a common theme for me.
LOL
I have three points I’d like to make.
First, ignoring Mac as a viable platform for blind gamers is a poor
strategy. One year on, and Mac sales are still far exceeding Windows sales,
even in comparison to back in the hay day of audio games, some 10 years ago
or so. It isn’t just about raw user numbers, it is about demographics and
the quality of those users.
Which leads me to my second point.
There is an old saying: “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
This could not apply to anything as well as it does to the statement that
Android is more popular than iOS overall. It is technically true that
Android is used in more devices, but that is because many of those devices
are not, strictly speaking, Android devices. That is to say, they are not
being used as portable computing devices like iOS devices are. Kindles,
Nooks, many models of feature phones, and countless other gadgets, all get
lumped into the Android user numbers, even though many of those devices are
so limited in scope that users don’t even know Android was used in their
development.
This is why, in the areas that matters, iOS’s numbers are so much better
than Android’s, despite the marketshare numbers that the media likes to
quote. iOS consistently has over 80% of web usage from mobile devices, for
example. iOS users are for more likely to pay for apps, too. iOS users also
spend more time on their devices, showing greater engagement with the
platform. And those kinds of numbers go on and on.
It is the same kind of trick as companies like Samsung use that create
headlines in the news like: “Samsung sells 10 million Galaxy blah blah”. In
reality, they shipped that number to resellers and warehouses. Shipped, but
not necessarily sold to end users. Samsung never actually releases specific
sales numbers. They only ever announce numbers of units shipped. It sounds
better that way.
Apple, conversely, only ever announces sales to end users, and never the
number of units shipped.
All of this, before you even start taking into account the fragmentation of
Android, which is a disaster that Google is continuing to scramble to get a
hold on with nothing to show for it. Less than 2% of Android devices are
running the latest version of the OS, compared with over 70% of iOS devices.
Android is a support nightmare for developers, much as Windows is.
Granted, that 2% number may be slightly skewed, given Google’s continued
desire to artificially inflate the usage numbers of Android, but it is still
a huge problem for the platform.
My final point is a technical one.
We explored a number of options for developing the Draconis Engine,
including experimenting with various languages, techniques, and
technologies. We have now shipped multiple titles on three platforms in the
space of eleven months. Three Mac releases, three Windows releases, and one
iOS release. (This assumes you count the Show Cases for Mac/Windows.)
The Draconis Engine was created with C++ primarily, with very tiny portions
written in Objective-C to cover OS X and iOS GUI, and small portions in C#
for Windows.
While C++, like any language, has advantages and disadvantages, if you are
interested in cross-platform development, particularly game development, we
found that the relatively minor trade offs were worth the huge advantages we
gained by going this route.
Just about all other cross-platform methods, like Java or Python, come with
huge disadvantages, as I believe Tom has mostly already covered.
Hope this is helpful.
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