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Retro games for Android devices? At your service!

on YouTube 49m
Talkat Droidcon Italy 2017 · 2017-04-06..04-07· [creative-coding]

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name:Marco Mazzaglia
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video:https://youtu.be/PsF6Fk9onSg
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that retro arcade constraints map neatly to mobile play: short sessions, simple inputs and tight mechanics. Shows Android-specific wins — emulators for SNES GBA Game Boy Advance, cheap Bluetooth pads (~€25), direct sensor access — and names tools like SCUMMVM and the My Boy mapper. Describes rebuilding and tuning an indie Metroidvania for touch, adjusting difficulty and visual affordances; the finished title scores ~88 and ~82 on Metacritic, so the approach works.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 5:24HAVING A GOOD GAME IS THE FIRST STEP
  3. 11:38RETRO GAME
  4. 24:22PERFECT RECIPE
  5. 40:46CONTROLS
  6. 43:25OVERALL EXPERIENCE
  7. 46:15Tools & Game Engines
  8. 46:38DEV RESOURCES

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