After over a year in development, the mobile version of Party Hard is now ready for testing. This is the full game as released on PC and consoles, and it works surprisingly well on a touch device.
We first spent some time testing with the fine folks at TouchArcade (thread here). The original idea was to keep it as much context sensitive as possible. So you'd have tap-to-move style controls:
This worked to a certain degree. The main issue was control in tight/fast situations. When you need to quickly do multiple stabs, or escape the cops while sprinting and avoiding obstacles -- that didn't really work. We'll keep this control scheme in as some users on smaller screens would prefer it.
The new virtual buttons control scheme though is ideal. As much as I usually don't like virtual buttons, this is next to perfect:
Here's me beating the first level in 6 minutes:
We're doing more testing, so if you'd like to join, sign up here with your TestFlight ID. Entries are not guaranteed as we have limited spots.
