Gaming Jetpack Joyride Flies onto Facebook, Still Addictive

[eXo]

Jetpack Joyride is an addictive little iOS game that manages to deliver a compelling experience that's both worthwhile and rewarding. The game strays away from the model that plagued mobile titles in the past, and though it's certainly a simple game with intuitive controls, it still manages to capture gamers' attention and give them a reason to care about the mobile gaming scene.

Now, developer Halfbrick is taking the addictive gem to Facebook to reach an even wider audience[...]

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[FrozenIpaq]

Would've preferred an Android port first

 

[David Sanchez]

Totally feel you. Here's hoping it still lands on Android. Since I'm still lugging around a cheap old phone, though, I'm grateful for the Facebook version.

 

[KezraPlanes]

Would've preferred an Android port first

I wouldn't bank on it. Android is kinda slowly dying as a gaming platform, mostly due to the discrepancy in hardwares (I'll give Apple their dues, streamlining their hardware is the way to go, even if their devices are overpriced to hell). Google should start doing something about it, and I remember there being plans.

 

[x3sphere]

I wouldn't bank on it. Android is kinda slowly dying as a gaming platform, mostly due to the discrepancy in hardwares (I'll give Apple their dues, streamlining their hardware is the way to go, even if their devices are overpriced to hell). Google should start doing something about it, and I remember there being plans.

Yeah the Android platform is a bit of a mess. I think some sort of baseline needs to be set on hardware. Carriers push out phones that barely can run the OS adequately. Gives the brand a bad name too... since a lot of people pin blame on Android and not the fact they bought a cheap phone.

 

[KezraPlanes]

Yeah the Android platform is a bit of a mess. I think some sort of baseline needs to be set on hardware. Carriers push out phones that barely can run the OS adequately. Gives the brand a bad name too... since a lot of people pin blame on Android and not the fact they bought a cheap phone.

You basically named everything that's wrong with the OS philosophy in one post - though that's the burden that came with being "open-source"

I'll give my example: I bought a Samsung Galaxy W back in January (1.4GHz single core, 512 RAM, Adreno 205 GPU) and it came shipped with Gingerbread 2.3.6. I bought a mid-low range phone that could handle Android 4.0 and I was pretty sure Samsung would update. They didn't. Also the stock ROM is goddamn mess. High RAM consumptiong that makes most 3D games unplayable (Sonic 4, GTA III) when they should run smoothly, even if the latter in lower detail.

This has been only barely fixed because a developer is working on CM9 for the phone (and with his help, I was able to pave the way for other devs to mod the stock ROM and make it much better, while CM9 isn't ready). But we shouldn't have to do that! They clutter the phones with proprietary software (custom launchers and frameworks built into the OS) and when a new version of Android comes out they go: "Oh we can't update it, the phone wouldn't be able to handle it.." IT WOULD, if you didn't clutter it with shit people remove when they get root on their phones.

This is why people should get Google Android phones, if you want the best Android experience, it IS the best choice. Although my phone is much better at this point, I regret I didn't wait and get a Nexus S.