Game to mobile

[chicka]

I'm trying to figure out how to make my game work with mobile. So if people are on their phones they can click on log into mobile version. I have a few applications for android and for Iphone but there is a lot of scrolling and I know how much people hate to do that. If someone could help would be great.

[Dave]

Well for the iPhone you could just write a web version of your game? I've done it before (Well some of the game never got around to completing it. It's quite easy but would take quite a lot of time.

[a_bertrand]

You basically need to make alternative pages which display less information and placed in such way it avoid as much as possible scrolling. Beside that, there is no magic.

[Guest Drizzle]

Well as far as crimes go, you can just make a dropdown and put a go button under it. profiles, just like a single column page(some scrolling, but minimum), displaying the users name, id, if he/she online, and if u dont want scrolling, u could always make a dropdown for the attack, mug, etc. links. so basically yea just like alain said. I also recommend, well u probably know this, but put it on a thing like mobile.game.com, iphone.game.com, etc.

oh and use a script to determine the size of the phone, so just incase a phone is smaller, you dont have to worry about a big giant screen on a small phone

[chicka]

Thanks guys for the responses. I think what i'm gonna end up doing is resizing the entire site. So when they click on "log in to mobile" it takes them to the game just much smaller to fit the phone. It involves a lot of editing to the game but I think it might work. I did something like that on wamp to test it out and seems to work alright for the files I edited. It doesn't quite fit the screen fully meaning they have to scroll a little but no where near as much as they have to with a full page.. Once i'm done editing the page correctly I'll post what I did so others can do the same thing and try to help everyone else do the same if they are interested

[wrx]

I think what i'm gonna end up doing is resizing the entire site. So when they click on "log in to mobile" it takes them to the game just much smaller to fit the phone. It involves a lot of editing to the game but I think it might work.

If you haven't already i would look in to doing this with CSS as i have done this before for a need i had , not game related just a content website. In my situation i was able to distribute formatted content based on browser detection with out having to maintain completely different directories of the site. I already had the site set up to include different CSS based on IE, Opera , Firefox, etc.. so adding in a few phone browsers wasn't an overwhelming task. The end result worked out well as was easy to manage.

Do a Google search for [lmgtfy]mobile phone css template[/lmgtfy] and you should get plenty of links to resources that may be helpful to you if you take this route.

 

 

 

 

 

wrx