Possible Mobile Version?

[DLCoates1]

Well I love KSP, not much else to say, but wouldn't it be even better if KSP was also available on mobile devices? I would buy it even if it was $10 for the app, thats just how much I love and support ksp. Hell, I even bought 3 copies total on PC for myself, my brother, and a spare to keep for a giveaway or something else.

Edit: Check most recent post.

[sierra_one_]

Mobile KSP? I... don't think so.

[Dark Phoenix]

Probbaly not, as the game is pretty heavy on pc's. Your mobile device would wander out back and shoot itself.

[spanky]

would be perfect on the ipad. the construction part would work well with touch, and tilt would work for flying. hell, if you can get xcom working on ios kerbal has no excuse ;)

[DLCoates1]

Originally posted by spanky:

would be perfect on the ipad. the construction part would work well with touch, and tilt would work for flying. hell, if you can get xcom working on ios kerbal has no excuse ;)

Exactly what I was thinking. I mean, GTA is heavy on computer and all, but they have it working perfectly fine on iOS as well! What makes kerbal any different!

[sierra_one_]

Because trying to perfect an orbit would end up being like Fruit Ninja. You'd end up replacing the screen once a week :3

[DLCoates1]

Originally posted by sierra_seven_:

Because trying to perfect an orbit would end up being like Fruit Ninja. You'd end up replacing the screen once a week :3

I think you may have a problem there :<

[Dark Phoenix]

Well, gta has probably been optimised to hell and back, and probably further for ios. KSP at this stage has probably had two optimisation passes, and you do still need a reasonable amount of ram to handle it.

[DLCoates1]

Originally posted by Coding Phoenix:

Well, gta has probably been optimised to hell and back, and probably further for ios. KSP at this stage has probably had two optimisation passes, and you do still need a reasonable amount of ram to handle it.

iOS has an Arma 2 app. Anyone who plays DayZ know's how much arma 2 needs optimizing and how resource heavy it is. Same goes for Minecraft, and there is Minecraft Pocket Edition for iOS, and Android. Again, what makes Kerbal different?

[Dark Phoenix]

Originally posted by D3| DLCoates1:

Originally posted by Coding Phoenix:

Well, gta has probably been optimised to hell and back, and probably further for ios. KSP at this stage has probably had two optimisation passes, and you do still need a reasonable amount of ram to handle it.

:KOh:
iOS has an Arma 2 app. Anyone who plays DayZ know's how much arma 2 needs optimizing and how resource heavy it is. Same goes for Minecraft, and there is Minecraft Pocket Edition for iOS, and Android. Again, what makes Kerbal different?

And all those games would be less technologically intense compared to their base games. KSp is not finished, it has not been optimised, and it would need a reasonable amount of time to strip away enough features for it to be viable. Minecraft uses a pretty simplistic physics system, it certainly isn't attempting to simulate 100+ individual components on a screen at the same time. By the time you have brought KSP down to a level that the average tablet can handle, it wouldn't have much of ksp left.
Here is a comparison for you. Play shogun 2 on a reasonable spec pc. Now that game can be played on a 6100m, but it will run at 12fps if you are lucky. The 6100m can handle most of the technology used in shogun, but the card simply isn't powerful enough to run it at anything more than low.
With the combination of the use of PhysX, and the scale of the game, i think it would be too much work to take it to mobile.

[sierra_one_]

^ +1

[DLCoates1]

Originally posted by Coding Phoenix:

Originally posted by D3| DLCoates1:

iOS has an Arma 2 app. Anyone who plays DayZ know's how much arma 2 needs optimizing and how resource heavy it is. Same goes for Minecraft, and there is Minecraft Pocket Edition for iOS, and Android. Again, what makes Kerbal different?

And all those games would be less technologically intense compared to their base games. KSp is not finished, it has not been optimised, and it would need a reasonable amount of time to strip away enough features for it to be viable. Minecraft uses a pretty simplistic physics system, it certainly isn't attempting to simulate 100+ individual components on a screen at the same time. By the time you have brought KSP down to a level that the average tablet can handle, it wouldn't have much of ksp left.
Here is a comparison for you. Play shogun 2 on a reasonable spec pc. Now that game can be played on a 6100m, but it will run at 12fps if you are lucky. The 6100m can handle most of the technology used in shogun, but the card simply isn't powerful enough to run it at anything more than low.
With the combination of the use of PhysX, and the scale of the game, i think it would be too much work to take it to mobile.

But how do you know? Have you at all tried? The problem with society today is that they base stuff on numbers and theories, they don't really try. Tell ya what, try to port KSP to iOS or some other mobile device then let me know how it does.

[SyFy Geek]

Originally posted by D3| DLCoates1:

But how do you know? Have you at all tried? The problem with society today is that they base stuff on numbers and theories, they don't really try. Tell ya what, try to port KSP to iOS or some other mobile device then let me know how it does. :KSmiley:

because it costs development money and resources to try maybe? if all that "stuff" and "numbers" and "theories" tell you that it most likely will not work well then why waste the time,money and effort into trying to make it so? the term here really is, is it economically feasible?

[Sloth Demon]

Nah.Cool Idea if you could build ships and look at your spacemissions ,but the whole thing?
Dont think so.
[PS: My Kerbal just ]

[Dark Phoenix]

Originally posted by D3| DLCoates1:

But how do you know? Have you at all tried? The problem with society today is that they base stuff on numbers and theories, they don't really try. Tell ya what, try to port KSP to iOS or some other mobile device then let me know how it does. :KSmiley:

Yeh, im a unity developer myself, and i really cannot be bothered trying to port something that will be as unoptimised and insane as what im working on to ios or andriod. Some games work, some dont.

[Power and Wealth]

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