Believing that you have an original idea and then talking about it on the internet is such a surprising activity. It didn’t occur to me that “suitcases” could even be a genre of game. Of course, creating real-life versions of KTANE is such a common activity that there’s actually a kit, as well as a large number of people who have already done this. That’s cool, but also, i do value originality. Luckily most of the people i meet in real life find the game as impressive as I do.
@rob I absolutely love the logo and industrial design of that. Raspberry PIs are cool, and I actually thought about using that in a couple of situations, because I have one that I have barely used… How easy would it be to get a defold game running on a raspberry pi? Is there an OS that just automatically boots a HTML5 file (or other)? Can you install android on it?
Defold (and mobile phones/tablets ) are perfect for this because you have
- a screen,
- speakers,
- a battery, which is absolutely vital and would be a pain in the ass to do any other way, and
- a USB port (with a USB-OTG adaptor)
all automatically connected with zero effort. You even get a motion sensor and many other things, bluetooth… the possibilities are endless. I actually ended up using a bluetooth speaker (battery powered so it also fits within the suitcase) as well to make it louder, the phone speaker sounds really loud in my flat but in real life situations it’s not enough, especially if you need the explosion to be loud enough to surprise people.
I should also say that the support from the Defold team has been absolutely incredible (just in case anybody coming from elsewhere comes across this thread).
