BrettTurner

I'm playing Avadon reasonably well on the new Google Nexus 7 at 1900ish by 1200ish resolution. It was unplayable on the Nexus 7 out of the box, at least using a finger (as opposed to a stylus), the squares were too small. BUT there is a simple trick which fixes the whole problem! Go into settings (sweep down from the right half of the top of the screen and select settings; or, touch All Apps and then Settings). Scroll down to the Accessibility section. Tap to open it. Scroll down to magnification settings. Turn it on. Once you turn on magnification settings, you can triple tap the screen to zoom in. While zoomed, you can zoom in or out with pinch zooming, and drag two fingers on the screen to move the zoomed-in window. It's mostly just like pinch zooming was included in the port (which it absolutely should have been), except that you have to triple tap to turn it on, and you can't zoom out to more than about x2. You can zoom in as far as you like, enough to tap a single square in combat with 100% accuracy. Triple tap again to return to unzoomed screen. With magnification settings on, Avadon is very playable on the Nexus 7. I assume there is probably a similar setting on the Nexus 10 and perhaps other high res Android tablets, but I don't have them so I don't know. I have a feeling that owners of high res tablets, especially 7 inch ones, should all enable magnification settings, as there is probably a whole bunch of other tablet software made to work only on low res tablets. If Spiderweb informs users about the magnification settings fix, I suspect that the Android version will sell better. I would certainly buy additional Avadon/Avernum products if released for Android. And next time, make sure that any Android port includes pinch zooming from the get-go. It's a very well done port generally, the games plays well and I have had no problems, maybe one freeze in two weeks of play.