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Simogo: Att utveckla mobilspel har blivit för komplicerat

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Svenska Simogo är idag en av de mest prominenta mobilspelsutvecklarna och har bland annat Device 6 och Year Walk på meritlistan. Nu låter de dock meddela att de lägger ner detta och satsar på konsol istället. Orsaken är att mobilspelsutveckling helt enkelt blivit för komplicerad och dyr jämfört med TV-spel.

Två Simogo-anställda, Simon Flesser och Magnus "Gordon" Gardebäck, säger såhär om saken till Games Industry:

"We've put months of work into this, because, well, we care that our games live on, and we want you to be able to keep playing your games. Had we known back in 2010 that we would be updating our games seven years later, we would have shook our heads in disbelief. This year, a lot of time we had planned to spend on our current project, ended up being spent on just making sure that our games would not be gone from the app store. Because sadly, the platform holder seems to have no interest in preservation of software on their platform."

Därför blir nästa projekt nu ett konsolspel:

"It's getting increasingly financially unviable, tiring and unenjoyable for us to keep on making substantial alterations for new resolutions, guidelines, and what have you, as they seem to never end. The appeal of the mobile platform is less evident today than it was a few years back. Before we started Simogo, we had made console games, and had grown really tired of the clunky processes, politics, certifications and primitive development environments that was involved in making a console game. Today, a lot of that clunkiness is gone, and sadly, for a small developer like us, mobile has become more difficult to support than consoles. Releasing a mobile game means supporting it perpetually, and justifying that is tough for us, at the moment. So, as you have probably understood by now, our current game in development, 'Project Night Road', is indeed a console game."

Vi ser såklart fram emot Project Night Road och hoppas att Simogo kan konvertera sina tidigare spel med. Har du inte upplevt Device 6, så har du nämligen missat något.

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