RCT2:Mobile???

[imlegos]

Hey, so i was bored and started reading the wikipedia artical on Chris Sawyer, and saw this... "In March of 2016, Eurogamer interviewed Sawyer. He says he is working to convert RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 to mobile platforms." So, i guess Sawyer does care about RCT? But i guess the question is how he is able to even do this, since Atari owns the rights to the RCT franchise...

[imlegos]

In other news, we are linked on the Wikipedia page for RCT2... We are also directly referenced under the 'legacy' section. Also, we have two refrences, one from indieretronews, and github.

 

Edited March 4, 2016 by imlegos

[GingerAdonis]

That's a surprising twist.

Quote

Chris Sawyer: My "pet project" at the moment is an ambition to bring my old PC game RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 to modern mobile and tablet platforms - not an easy task given that the original game was written in low-level x86 assembler code which only works on the PC. But with the success of Transport Tycoon on mobile and with the experience and willingness of the small team from Origin8 to continue working for me it was looking a lot more feasible, so they're working with me to create a very faithful conversion of the original PC game.

Article: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-03-03-a-big-interview-with-chris-sawyer-the-creator-of-rollercoaster-tycoon

[RuneLaenen]

16 hours ago, imlegos said:

But i guess the question is how he is able to even do this, since Atari owns the rights to the RCT franchise...

Actually, Chris Sawyer owns the rights and Atari has a license to use the name to create and market games. So yes, he could.

 

And personally I would love to see it getting ported to mobile. I'm an iPhone user myself and I'm fairly sure that OpenRCT2 will never be able to be 'sold' on the apple appstore. On android, side loading would be possible but still. In other words: I'd defenitely buy it if it's under 9.99  

[Broxzier]

I'm curious to see how they would make the game work with touch.

[RuneLaenen]

14 minutes ago, Broxzier said:

I'm curious to see how they would make the game work with touch.

I don't think there's going to be much left of the original UI... I mean, it's not really 'touchable'...

[Nubbie]

I think @marijnvdwerf is working on making OpenRCT2 for Android

As seen on the screenshot- Source; Gitter chat by marijnvdwerf

Edited May 10, 2016 by Nubbie
Adding screenshot

[ziscor]

Well, if Chris releases the game early I think the Android Version of ORCT2 could use it's interface.

[imlegos]

The andriod version of ORCT2 would probably die as soon as RCT2M comes out. It's kinda pointless when Chris himself made an updated version to have essentially a bootleg still exist.

[jensj12]

2 minutes ago, imlegos said:

The andriod version of ORCT2 would probably die as soon as RCT2M comes out. It's kinda pointless when Chris himself made an updated version to have essentially a bootleg still exist.

Probably the other way round if the official version doesn't have any extra functions...

I'd buy the one from Chris anyways to support him 

[Broxzier]

Exactly. Unless Chris Sawyer smashes in some awesome new features, I don't think it will catch up with OpenRCT2 quite as good. It will probably get more attention quicker, and when people learn there's an alternative with even more features the OpenRCT2 community will only grow.

[ziscor]

I hope it doesn't grow so much as to force Chris to make a public statement of sorts on OpenRCT2.

I know he is aware of OpenTTD's existence, and some say OpenTTD was what caused him to come back into the gaming scene with Transport Tycoon Deluxe Mobile.

[imlegos]

4 minutes ago, ziscor said:

Transport Tycoon Deluxe Mobile

It's not Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It's Chris Sawyer's Locomotion going under the Transport Tycoon name.

 

[ziscor]

Oh wait, yeah. I'd expect him to use his most polished game engine for the mobile release. Plus, Locomotion was the one he poured the most heart into. 

[imlegos]

Locomotion was his last game, Both in terms of ports and non ports.

[imlegos]

I was looking through Wikipedia again, and RCT2's page was changed. ORCT2 was removed from the "Legacy" section, and put into it's own. Apparently the internet thinks we're getting bigger.