Ouya

[Krysis]

Anyone else think that the Ouya could be an interesting platform for these games?

[Krysis]

Oh here's a link for information (though any google search will turn up results)

 

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/ouya-android-based-hackable-game-console/

[Tyranicus]

Porting the games to a console would require some pretty major interface changes.

[Krysis]

To be honest, I can only speak for the Geneforge series of games. (Those are the only ones I played to the end) Inventory might be a bit of a bother, but I thought that could be managed by a start menu system. Creations could be managed in party rooster system (the only one I can bring to mind atm is pokemon from way back in the day). As far as I remember, your character only has 4 active spells and 4 quick use items at a time, which could be toggled between when mapped to the traditional triangle square circle what not. Most spells were single target or could be done on what amounted to a grid based system. Admittedly moving around would require some serious changes, but I don't think that it'd be that much of a stretch.

[Alorael at Large]

The real question is whether there's any market that exists for the Ouya that isn't already reached through Mac and PC. That's a lot of effort porting to a very different system. And there's the qusetion of whether there's any market, or even device, at all.

 

—Alorael, who isn't lining up to get one of these. He has a fantastic console already, and it's called a laptop.

[Aran]

You can play games on them? I thought they were just for talking to ghosts.

 

(...)

 

But seriously, there are already Android versions for the newest Spiderweb games: Would they really require radical changes to work on this kind of platform?

[Student of Trinity]

That'd be a pretty hardcore form of multiplayer.