Fair enough. I frequently have to do some level of business analysis on projects as well (my title over the past couple jobs and more than half decade has been "software/applications architect"). Choosing the right solution (emphasis RIGHT solutio…
@LateNiteGames
Thanks for the comprehensive guide.
Regarding your final thoughts..
The Monogame team has more or less taken on the guardianship of XNA in spirit, so MS will eventually not be a relevant part of the equation while XNA lives on in th…
Yeah.. I'd personally not worry about it much from a hacking/piracy angle. The IAP implementation handles most of the concerns around that.
I'd worry more about confusion of who's perceived as the official repository of the apps. If sites can easi…
If piracy is a concern, OUYA could protect the apks by using app encryption and serving them from a web service request rather than letting the files sit naked on their cloud storage.
There is no silver bullet for piracy. That's for sure. If som…
Mr. Blitz Basic? :)
This issue was reported and logged a few versions back.
It seems like a change in voltage to the HDMI cable seems to cause this to happen.
If you don't want the OUYA to randomly turn on, it's best to power it down from the unit…
Piers said:
Pulled various page headers into the safezone, to avoid it looking like there is an overscan issue with the OUYA menus.Hmm... must... not... gloat... :)
But in all seriousness...
The root menu screen looks a lot better with that…
freso said:
To be honest, people did not buy an OUYA to play exclusive titles.
Use that one million on a few software developers that can fix all bugs and make a better user interface instead. In other words, complete the user interface.
If y…
pixeldriver said:
After reading the comments regarding EA/copyright it makes me think why don't you do your own version of Alice but based on the original book which could still be a twisted gothic version but it would be all yours to give aw…
wiering said:
Why the $50K minimum? I was thinking about doing a kickstarter campaign, but I'd only need to raise $7K or perhaps $10K to make the game. I'd probably be happy with making it an Ouya exclusive for some time if they would double …
I know this is sort of bordering on "none of your business", but is the user base of OUYA big enough to support a $50K Kickstarter when there's currently no means of giving backers a copy of the game as a reward on OUYA? Since OUYA is going to see …
Release management is a pain with patch systems. And if users go too long without updating, there's a diminishing return. Patches are akin to differential back-ups. Every update has to be relative to the update prior to it, and there needs to be …
I understand the concept isn't new. I think I still have my original "top secret" X-box incubation program package from Microsoft that detailed how to create an X-box-a-like out of a PC.
Before that, it was the CD-32 based on Amiga architecture.
I …
pietaster said:
arcticdog said:
I honestly wouldn't expect Steambox to be "open" either. Or rather, if it is, it will be another interpretative version of it.
At the end of the day, any console or specialized content consumption devic…
Yeah.. to clarify, updates on those platforms are optional if you don't have a connection (mostly because they don't know one exists until they connect). I know a few of the apps (like internet explorer, etc) will force an update if it detects a co…
Updates usually come in two flavors for any kind of software. Critical and non-critical.
I know for sure that Microsoft forces updates on x-box games at launch if one is detected no matter how critical it actually is. And I believe Microsoft also …
I honestly wouldn't expect Steambox to be "open" either. Or rather, if it is, it will be another interpretative version of it.
At the end of the day, any console or specialized content consumption device that also has an app store really has no bus…
madmax2069 said:
Why dont you just put a cache token on the system that uses your console ID and the owners username to make a cypher to encrypt the token and make it to where you never have to connect online again if you don't want to, or un…
pietaster said:
KonajuGames said:
They have done exactly what they said they would do. They provided root access. That it is via su is still root access. That you assumed it was something different is not their fault. They have bee…
I've noticed a few games that are completely free actually do state this in their description.
If they don't, it's probably safe to assume there's a fee involved at some point. How soon that happens is not something you're going to be able to det…
For many games it won't be terribly relevant because there are enough buttons left over to map those particular needs.
But one idea is that select/start could be emulated with the track pad (swipe to the left, select. swipe to the right, start)
That…
The way this post was formed implied that the request was for PayPal as a means of paying developers their cut of the IAP's. That I don't care about (and to be fair, the challenges the OP stated are not relevant to my situation).
However, I think t…
Ryusui said:
Ouya's conceit is that it does not have a "store" - the games have their own stores. Yet I'm fairly certain Ouya takes a cut of whatever games released on their platform make, so what this effectively means is that devs and consu…
hahah.. Yeah.. feeling kinda stupid. Sorry about that. I did eventually figure that out, and forgot to retract my bug here. It dawned on me out of the blue one day that the game may have been built with mobile in mind, so scratch/touch might mean…
Nick/Piers:
Excellent update! It's looking mighty polished!
I know this is a weird suggestion... but the "Booting Linux..." in the upper left corner of the screen on power-up.. Maybe that should say something else? "Starting OUYA..", "Televising …
This game is a really cool concept. But there is a pretty awful bug that's preventing me from playing it more than a couple minutes.
First time I've ever played this was today, so I'm running the most recent firmware update. I'm running it on a de…
Hey Piers, Nick:
I discovered a weird behavior in the firmware around the power-down/power-up from the console. Maybe you're aware of it, maybe not. Hopefully what I provide here is enough to allow you to recreate it. It's not a show stopper by a…
nick said:
Piers is busy helping out at E3 today, so I'll be filling in for today's OTA announcement :)
Here is the changelog for 1.0.298:
Android settings and Browser now respect TV safe zones. And yup, part of the “O” in OUYA is still suppose…
