Hey, wasn’t there already a game called Ice-Bound on Kickstarter?
You’re thinking of “Icebound” from Fastermind Games, a steampunk fantasy visual novel and puzzle game that also looks very cool (we haven’t tried it yet ourselves). They had a successful Kickstarter last year and released in April. You can check out their demo and buy the game at iceboundgame.com . Last updated: Mon, Oct 6 2014 9:35 pm EDT
Will Ice-Bound be coming to Macs or non-Apple tablets, too?
Unfortunately, we can’t make any promises about this yet. As an extremely small development team (er, just the two of us) making this game in our spare time, we simply don’t have the resources to support a lot of different platforms on launch. We’ve been able to commit to iPad and Windows PCs, since we have both of those builds running right now. The good news is our codebase will run on a lot of platforms, so the only major obstacle in porting is getting our augmented reality library working on different devices. As far as we know, nothing will stand in the way of an Android release, we just haven’t had time to investigate this yet. (We also don’t own an Android tablet; getting the hardware to make this possible might become a stretch goal, if there’s enough interest.) The bad news is our third-party AR library does not currently have an SDK for Mac OS, meaning we would have to find another solution for that part of the project. We haven’t yet had time to investigate what our options are here thoroughly, and probably won’t until post-release, unfortunately. We’ll post updates if our information changes. Last updated: Wed, Oct 8 2014 12:20 am EDT
Can you run Ice-Bound on a smartphone?
Unfortunately, no. We’ve talked about a hybrid version of the project where your phone is used as an input device, and all the interaction with the digital story happens on a desktop computer, but this would require back and forth communication between the two devices, potentially getting into a lot of hairy network or server code we haven’t budgeted time for at this point. For now, our goal is to get the game finished and released for our two target platforms (iPad and webcam-enabled Windows PC). Post-release, we’re hoping we can investigate ways to get the game going on a broader range of hardware (see also previous question). Last updated: Wed, Oct 8 2014 12:24 am EDT
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