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\"\"<\/a>I have been putting in some hours of this week\u2019s vacation to work on my October Challenge entry but finally have to admit that one week just is not enough. I will continue to work on Boskovice <\/a>for the next month, hopefully will be able to keep motivated and maybe at the end of the year have some version ready to put in the android play-store.<\/p>\n

Overall Summary: This has been my first time tinkering with the android platform and I have to say that I am impressed with the hardware and software-side. I started with my Ludum Dare 24 entry<\/a>, which was using raycasting-based software rendering. After porting it easily to android (its java), I noticed that this approach is not working on a mobile device: software rendering is too slow. I started from the ground up with libgdx <\/a>and reimplemented the graphics in OpenGL ES 2. As libgdx allows you to build for android and the desktop, I was able to use all the advantages of developing on the desktop. Including\u00a0 the goodness of hot-code-replacement. Only to test the touch-input, some shader differences in OpenGL ES compared to desktop OpenGL and test performance, I had to use the android phone at some points. And it is rather impressive that I almost ran out of the box with 60 frames per second on the Samsung S3. It is a new device, but anyway.\u00a0 Oh, and I had to reimplement the raycaster** as this was the main bottle-neck draining the CPU. Turned out that i was doing a little to much floating-point calculates and my math was much more complicated than it needed to be.<\/p>\n

The game is still missing alot; physics, particle system, content, content and content.<\/p>\n