Will Wolfire ever get Lugaru on consoles or handhelds?

[Szs315]

I want to know if this will ever make it onto anything other than the pc. It would be so awesome to play lugaru as a next-gen game! Who agrees, who doesn't, and does anyone at wolfire want this to happen?

[wormguy]

I can't imagine playing Lugaru on anything but a mouse-and-keyboard. I don't think porting it to a console would be profitable, either.

[BunnyWithStick]

Lugaru on a console IMO is not good. It's not meant for consoles, and would probably be hard to play on them too.

[Kalexon]

Lugaru 2: Possibly, if it's good enough and David is willing to let Microsoft/Nintendo/etc.. port it.

Lugaru 1 however: No chance.

[Szs315]

The only reason you say this is because you're all PC gamers who don't like consoles! It would be good because then instead of having a shareware [otherwise known as not a full game but instead a smaller game that is not an official one] game we would have a game that could have awesome graphics, thousands of moves, levels, terrains, a ton of new editing tools, multiplayer online and console lan, and much more etc...

[Zantalos]

I think moving around would be waaay easier to do on a console like the 360 than with arrow keys. It's kind of redicules to have this good of a movement system and only have the controlls to allow a full run or a crouch walk. With a controller you would be able to get any speed from running to walking because you would have analog controllers.

Oh and there's really no harm with the camera being put on the analog as well because Lugaru does not require such accurate movements that you get from a mouse. Everything is context based, so a controller would work just fine.

[BunnyWithStick]

Yes, but what's so good about that?

You can just get a gamepad if you need that sort of control. Lugaru 2 will probably have gamepad support, and if not, who cares?

There'll probably be a walk key in Lugaru 2 anyway.

[Szs315]

You're forgetting the point. This was to see if people wanted it to become an offical, full, real game instead of a shareware game by an independant company. I believe if it was a real game it would sell alot.

[BunnyWithStick]

Yeah, but "real" games suck because you can't download them.

Nobody ever gets the chance to get them if they're only available in shops.

[Crill3]

No thx.

[rudel_ic]

We've had a similar discussion somewhen.

To develop for consoles, you need a development kit. That's a console you can access with development tools to debug and stuff.

A development kit always goes with licensing fees.

SDL is not that common on consoles, so porting has to be done.

Consoles need new control interfaces, so recoding has to be done.

Some consoles just rely on CDs, that also would have to be taken care of.

These are just some of the problems that usually make indy devs decide not to code for consoles.

There's this new Microsoft development approach that lets indy devs develop for the XBOX360 in C# on a PC and deploy it on an ordinary console on-the-fly, but this also is tied to licensing fees if you intend to make money out of your game.

Now, if you have to pay a licensing fee, that's an additional financial risk for the developer. That's a scary thing if you're not a big company.

[Szs315]

This stinks. Can they atleast enable joystick or controller support then?

[Crill3]

You honestly think it stinks that Lugaru or Lugaru 2 might never be on consoles?
I don't think Lugaru 2 will be on consoles, and Lugaru coming to consoles, to be fair, isn't going to happen.
I would guess joystick/gamepad support will be in Lugaru 2 though.
But if it isn't, I don't care.

[Jeff]

Fun fact: After Wolfire was Slashdotted, Lugaru was picked up by a PS2 development house and a working PS2 version was created. Unfortunately it was never released due to publisher issues.

[Szs315]

Almost had a console game. Well, whatever. I hope lugaru becomes a console game someday. Until then, I'll keep playing and hoping. I wish I could play that working ps2 version. Jeff, did you get to play the ps2 version?