Pocket Gamer:
“Better late than never”, the saying goes. In the fast-moving world of video games, though, that’s not always the case.
Very often a game will make an appearance on a new platform far too late, its thunder having been well and truly stolen by an opportunistic copycat.
Has Galcon, an innovative RTS that appeared on iPhone two years ago, left it too late to make an impact on Android?
Multiplayer isn't a big deal for iPhone gaming yet, but in 2009, gamers should start seeing more developers experiment with the idea, such as InstantAction's plan to enable iPhone gamers to take on PC users of the popular strategy game "Galcon."
Kyle Orland writes:
"0:00 A glowing write-up on Boing Boing Gadgets combined with a "free to play in your browser" price point made this one a no-brainer for me.
0:04 Four minutes spent registering for the site and installing a bloated Firefox plug-in... Still better than the average PS3 game...
0:05 On to Practice mode first to figure out what the heck is going on. A simple, one-page instruction screen pops up. Click a planet, use the scroll wheel to choose a percentage, then right-click another planet to send that many ships in real time. Seems relatively simple.
0:07 The tutorial level is already done ... exceedingly simple, of course. Really liking the interface ... makes it easy to keep track of the situation without having to scroll around the map or overly interpret what you're looking at. I like the little "pshew!" sound the ships make when they attack a planet, too."
