Game Discussions Frontier mobile gaming startegy

starman · Nov 16, 2022

Should Frontier invest in mobile gaming or publish third party games?

see this article by Phile Spenser on Microsoft mobile game strategy https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xboxs-phil-spencer-we-need-candy-crush-not-call-of-duty

Any comments?

metatheurgist · Nov 16, 2022

They already publish third party games. I think the mobile space is saturated.

DrinkyBird · Nov 16, 2022

starman said:
Should Frontier invest in mobile gaming

LostWinds and its sequel were available on iOS for a time. I don't think it lasted long, but I think it was well-placed in 2011's era of mobile and WiiWare games.
Maybe their Planet and Jurassic World games could be taken mobile - I've heard the latter be compared to a mobile game a lot... That assumes there are phones capable of running them of course.

starman said:
publish third party games?

https://www.frontier.co.uk/foundry already exists. I guess they could expand it into mobile but publishing on those platforms is easy enough already...

amigacooke · Nov 16, 2022

starman said:
Should Frontier invest in mobile gaming or publish third party games?

see this article by Phile Spenser on Microsoft mobile game strategy https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xboxs-phil-spencer-we-need-candy-crush-not-call-of-duty

Any comments?

Frontier would have to learn a new API, Metal, and in the past they weren’t very keen to do that.

DrinkyBird · Nov 16, 2022

amigacooke {macOS} said:
Frontier would have to learn a new API, Metal, and in the past they weren’t very keen to do that.

They could learn Vulkan and kill both mobile birds (and every desktop bird, and one console bird) with one stone.

starman · Nov 16, 2022

DrinkyBird said:
LostWinds and its sequel were available on iOS for a time. I don't think it lasted long, but I think it was well-placed in 2011's era of mobile and WiiWare games.
Maybe their Planet and Jurassic World games could be taken mobile - I've heard the latter be compared to a mobile game a lot... That assumes there are phones capable of running them of course.

https://www.frontier.co.uk/foundry already exists. I guess they could expand it into mobile but publishing on those platforms is easy enough already...

Yeah I knew that! I was discussing specifically mobile games.

starman · Nov 16, 2022

amigacooke {macOS} said:
Frontier would have to learn a new API, Metal, and in the past they weren’t very keen to do that.

Third party dev use Unreal so it would not be a issue if TP dec uses relevant engine.

amigacooke · Nov 17, 2022

starman said:
Third party dev use Unreal so it would not be a issue if TP dec uses relevant engine.

Then it wouldn’t be Frontier.