Hooray! Game Dev Story, the rather niche iPhone game about working in the video game development industry, has launched on Android – with developer Kairosoft releasing its iPhone SMASH on Google’s OS over the weekend.
Basically you run a video game development team and are charged with developing a smash hit, managing budgets and hiring talent. Here’s the description:
Manage your own game company and try to create a million-selling game in this unique simulation. Features the ability to develop your company’s own game console, plus a system for changing your staff members’ professions.
Your staff members can have a variety of game-related professions, from programmer to sound engineer
And here are the shots. Looks like the developer has just put iPhone grabs on the Android market listing, which is a little naughty…
Game Dev Story is probably of most interest to those of you with an interest in or job to do with video games. The iPhone version went down a storm with game nerds. It’s on the Android Market now, for 400 Japanese yen.
Which translates to around £3.00 if you get a good exchange rate out of your bank.
UPDATE:
We’re put together a gallery of screenshots from the Android game here.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
shrinkwrapped
/ December 14, 2010Anyone know if this can be saved to SD?
Gary C
/ December 14, 2010Sadly not. Greyed-out option of shame.
Steve Eason
/ January 5, 2011I love this game. I was just about to ask the same question. Bummer, wish I could move it to the SD card. I need some more space!