Dungeon Keeper for Mobile Devices

Good thing War for the Overworld is in the works.

Why everything mobile-related must be cartoon=ish and that looks like games for children? I don't get it. Check the list of top 50 games on iPhone. Mostly there are colorful games with childish gameplay. I guess this is all what can be played when sitting on toilet or in metro. Why it would suck if that DK game would be just like the original? People won't buy it? What is the idea of making a cartoon game with fucked up proportions and crazy color palette?

I'm gonna pretend I didn't see this.

Fuck you ea.

I dont understand the hate for this.

i'm happy this is being made. sure its super cartoony, whatevs, i'm in it. war for the overworld looks pretty last-last-gen, so its not like it's any better.

i'll be playing it.

I don't care about the cartoony look, this clearly has none of the actual base building elements of DK, these will be prebuilt rooms you just slap down. This is going to be as shit as impire.

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I dont understand the hate for this.

i'm happy this is being made. sure its super cartoony, whatevs, i'm in it. war for the overworld looks pretty last-last-gen, so its not like it's any better.

i'll be playing it.

From my point of view it's more a scream of surrender because most of iPhone games are childish, it's not what I was looking for on this platform. I guess it's a cheap thinking like "we need to use very low poly so let's stylize that, what looks nice on low poly? Cartoonish proportions and palette!". Come on... Thank God I'm not a fan of mobile games, I won't touch it ever I was a "fan" of mobile games when it started but I couldn't find a proper, well made game. Still there are some nice titles like Sword&Sorcery (pixel art!) or Trainz.

One more thing. This game will cost a bullshit pennies and people will buy that becouse it's DK and costs almost nothing. Most of the mobile players don't give a shit about the stylization but if I was forced to make such games I would hang myself

Yup so a shitty mix of Dungeons and Impire. GG EA.

If it ends up being anything like the last EA F2P game I played on my iPhone that had the most tedious and insultingly wallet-raping approach to game design I've ever seen they can get fucked.

i'm sure they had to simplify it for mobile, just to appeal to a bigger audience, it makes sense why they did it. DK is just too overwhelming for the average joe now. Let PC games be complex, mobile is for taking a shit or riding a bus.

Screw the consumers and bollocks to the data.

Tower defense *facepalm*

Looking at data that way is incredibly naive. It's using unconnected data to try and prove a point and has repeatedly shot developers in the foot.

"The data shows that everyone wants free to play shooters/mobas/rpgs etc" Market gets flooded by shitty clones "How come no one is playing our game, the data said this would sell."

But... DAAAAATAAAAA!!!!!

Never before have I gotten so excited, followed by immediate disappointment

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Issues with Pay to Win setup of game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26033685

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Dungeon Keeper gives the player the job of constructing and running an underground lair to which they attract monsters that are then used to defend the place against attackers. Minions called imps dig out rooms and corridors to create the dungeon.

Many complained that the imps work much too slowly unless players buy gems. Without this resource the game makes players wait four hours to dig out some types of territory and 24 hours to dig out rockier parts.

Peter Molyneux, who designed the original 1997 Dungeon Keeper game, said he too was shocked when he saw the time it would take to dig out some sections of the map.

"I felt myself turning round saying, 'What? This is ridiculous. I just want to make a dungeon. I don't want to schedule it on my alarm clock for six days to come back for a block to be chipped,'" he told the BBC.

Mr Molyneux said some of the criticism came from fans of the original who simply wanted an updated version of the game they fondly remembered.

He added: "I don't think they got it quite right, the balance between keeping it familiar to the fans that were out there but fresh enough and understandable enough for this much bigger mobile audience."

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