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As of now, Charpentier and his team are working on testing Android devices-because of the vast range of options, however, this is taking the team slightly longer. The developer also scaled the UI and optimized performance to make sure the mobile version can function with other devices in cross-platform play. Charpentier said 500,000 players in total played the game, allowing Creative Assembly to refine Kingdom based on feedback. To perform early tests in the development process, Creative Assembly soft launched Kingdom in several territories. With these controls, you can play 1,000 battles and not make a mistake once.' 'We could have made it about swiping, and other touch controls that look really cool,' Charpentier said. Icons also control artillery and other off-screen support possibilities.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's You select individual units by tapping a corresponding icon on the edge of the screen.

In order to mitigate any accidental unit selections or commands, Kingdom uses what Charpentier called an 'old school' system. During a recent demo creative director Renaud Charpentier showed us how Kingdom functions on iPad. And oddly enough, it's returning to the past to do so. With Kingdom, Creative Assembly hopes to do the same. These games work because of their game design, but also because they capitalize on the advantages a touch screen offers. Starfront: Collision, Plague Inc., and the retro-minimalistic Rymdkapsel have all found success among the hordes of app store selections vying for attention. Creative Assembly itself released Total War Battles: Shogun in 2012, and a handful of developers have worked around the obstacles a touch-screen presents. Kingdom is in no way the first RTS game on mobile. Since then, Creative Assembly has been working on a mobile version of the realm-building game, complete with new controls for the touch-based platform. The free-to-play Total War Battles: Kingdom entered open beta on PC in April, 2015. Developer Creative Assembly is bringing another Total War entry to iOS and Android devices, creating a cross-platform playing field with PC and Mac.

Starfront collision 2016