Slitherine

Any chance of Legion being ported to PSP? It would be the perfect thing for long journies. So would Arena, come to think of it...

We would love to do a PSP version. We agree that it would be perfect. Now all we need is for Sony + a publisher to agree

Cheers

Pip

pipfromslitherine wrote:... Now all we need is for Sony + a publisher to agree ...

Is that hard to get?

But wouldn't it be hard to control armies on the field quickly with the PSP's controler? Or am I missing something out?

Hmm, well, I suppose you could pause it...

It is indeed not always a simple task to port a game to a different platform while retaining all the features in the same form. Handheld development often requires that you rethink and reinvent some of the core UI and control elements, as things are somewhat different with a thumbpad and a 4 inch screen

Cheers

Pip

I don't think it would be a problem with Legion, but obviously Arena would need a few changes...

I find Legion more addictive thought; it's the game that would make me miss my stop on the bus more!

if you could do it ian

It would, wouldn't it?

But then, perhaps we shouldn't distract them away from L2?

I'm playing Lemmings on PSP at the moment. Well, I say playing, I mean making levels for. That's a great feature!

Anyway, perhaps they could outsource the PSP porting? I shoudln't think it would be that difficult. But then, what do I know?!

Outsourcing can be a positive thing and a negative thing. Would you like your game/idea destroyed by someone who never saw it the way you did?

Some out-sourced games are good, but the majority of them are plain knock-offs.

They couldn't do much harm if just making a straight port

pipfromslitherine wrote:It is indeed not always a simple task to port a game to a different platform while retaining all the features in the same form. Handheld development often requires that you rethink and reinvent some of the core UI and control elements, as things are somewhat different with a thumbpad and a 4 inch screen

Cheers

Pip

There is no true port. If you look at GTA: Liberty Stories, you'll see what I mean. The storyline is decent. the plot is the same as the rest, yes they've added new features such as online play, which the ps2 didn't have, but the gameplay is so much harder.

I thought the controls in GTA-LCS were quite good, but I know what you mean.

The advantage Legion would have is that it's not real-time, so even if the controls were a little more cumbersome it wouldn't be much of an issue. I think it's perfectly suited to dpad control anyway, and you could use the analogue stick to move a cursor (I wouldn't like that, I'd much rather jump from item to item with the dpad, but I expect some people would prefer a cursor, and options are nice).

O yes I forgot that LEgion was not real time. As legion Arena would be a bit difficult with it being in real time.

Yeah, you'd have to be able to pause it all the time but still issue orders. You can't do that in the PC version can you?

Maybe if you put the process priority down low and started up a cpu intensive app...