Early Smartphone Test

After a meeting with Marco, and some wrangling of windows and android, the very first smartphone version of Magma Surge is now working! It has a long way to go before any demonstration, there are a few control issues as well as graphical bugs that need to be fixed. However it is really cool to be able to see the game working on my phone. This is a major milestone and, despite the fact that it needs lots of tweaking, really shows how far along the game has come since it began.

The green boxes are the collision layer which is visible for some reason. For now the game is controlled using the directional buttons to move and the up button to jump. Experiments with the control scheme will start when user testing begins.

Obviously for this I had to go and purchase a smartphone. I decided an Android phone was the way to go as we already have an iPhone in the team, so now we could test the game on both platforms. So im now locked into an 18 month contract with Vodafone so I can have a nice new shiny Samsung Galaxy S2. And what a beaut she is too. So below are some screenshots of this very early version taken while being played on my phone.