I can understand that burning desire... IPad give so much idea !

If iOS and ObjC wasn't such a turd this would have been fun.

cas, I assume you're going to port Revenge of the Titans, right ? 
My question is, is the iPad's hardware badass enough to handle all the fancy effects of RoTT ? Because if not, it could be a big fail regardless of the developer you're picking, and both sides would be quite frustrated .

(I'm not being pessimistic here, it's just that when I tried porting a game of mine to Android, I spent like 2 months working on it just to see that it would be better to rewrite everything than trying to make miracles to improve performance)

Yes, the iPad should be able to handle it, as will the iPhone 4 and potentially the 3GS. The 3G and under are dead in the water, however.

/agree

Saying android is rubbish is like saying a ferrari is rubbish

Getting further OT, but also keeping your thread bumped... I certainly wouldn't equate Android with a Ferrari. No way, not even close. Android has plenty of problems, but it is still an absolute pleasure to work with compared to iOS and shitty Xcode. No offense, but do you have first hand experience with both platforms?

I've developed a few iPhone games: Funny Call, Lady Gaga karaoke, Jason Derulo karaoke, and SingSong karaoke. Some have even done well -- Funny Call was #1 in utilities when it released and has hung around the top 20 since (currently 32). Even with this success, I'm done with iShit. Apple can take their crappy tools and suck it.

IMO, there are two kinds of iOS developers: 1) Those that don't know better, that don't realize the tools from the 90s they are forced to use are absolutely horrible, that are delighted to be locked in to proprietariness, etc and 2) Those that are willing to put up with a lot of shit to try to cash in. Unfortunate for both, but especially for the latter, the market is saturated, fewer and fewer are able to make any money in it. Also, it's starting to unravel. The golden age is over and as devices become more powerful, Flash, HTML5, etc reduce the need to pay for apps.

HA! Low hanging fruit? I don't wish your project ill, quite the opposite, but I predict you'll be surprised.

It's only got to turn a decent profit, and I think with the very high quality of the iPad market demographic that Revenge of the Titans could pretty easily bring in about $50k. That's about 5,000 sales to a very concentrated, affluent, hungry market of several million devices, all of which run precisely the same hardware and software, and all of whom buy their apps from precisely one place with the click of a button.

Android by comparison ... is just simply not comparable. CPU speed ranges between 500MHz and 1GHz dual core, RAM between 256MB to a gig, screens from 3" to 10", and worst of all, the OS itself is spread over about 4 major versions, and only the very latest one isn't even remotely fast enough to run Revenge at anything approaching a sensible framerate. The JIT is like stepping back in time to Java 1.1, and those of us unlucky to remember how crap that was are probably still amazed Java caught on in spite of that. On top of the vast headache of a multiplicity of support, we can either limit ourselves to the top 10% of the market with a spec barely capable of running the game, or slash the game so badly in the quest for compatibility it just ends up being a lacklustre experience like so many other Android games. And then joy of joys we get to experience the Android Market, a teeming bazaar of people not wanting to pay much money for anything, if any, and which is delivered in a frankly mediocre experience compared to the iPad's App Store.

There is nothing ideological in the comparison. I'm being a reasonably hard-nosed businessman. That's why I'm laying tens of thousands of dollars down to get an iPad port done.

In highly portable C++ btw, not Obj-C.

Cas

Bleh, well, you can take me off the list then. Everything I have worked on has been on Obj-C. And in any case a certain number of OS calls and the like will need to be in Obj-C.

Yes, great discussing with you. 

Ridiculous as it is it's where the money is, end of.

Cas

While I really love my rooted samsung galaxy (and would never change it with something from that bitten company), I can't think of revenge working on a phone sized device - on the iPad it seems like a great fit - even the hectic scrolling, reloading and collecting could be fun on a relative big smooth touchscreen device.

Since current android tablets are more or less rubbish or too small, I also think it wouldn't make much sense to target these devices.

BUT there is honeycomb on the way and with it quite a nice lineup of devices. With an ETA of 6 months for them, it "might" be profitable to target those android device, too.

I wonder how other markets such as the Wii compare? It would make sense to target the market with the most potential first if the work to do so is similar.

How do other indies handle releasing for many platforms? I imagine you start with something portable and introduce abstractions where necessary. After doing the same game for each platform, I bet you'd have some nice tips and the second time would go a lot faster.

FWIW, Super Meat Boy is on Windows and (the very similar) Xbox360, with an upcoming release for Mac. Wikipedia has this about a Wii version:

ExEn even works on IPhone...

Hmm that's a novel way of doing it, interesting. Andrew Russel is actually quite clever, I think he could deliver on that project. He was my hero for a while for figuring out soft shadows in this game of his:
http://www.gamedev.net/page/reference/index.html/_/reference/105/interviews/spotlight-interviews/andrew-russell-studios-r2703

Sorry for the thread hi-jack.

Congrats with the success of ROTT which lets you do this port