John Bedford (Modojo): RTS games can be fiddly beasts even with the benefit of a mouse and keyboard, so it's a brave developer who takes on the world of finger-swipes and precision tapping when bringing the world of micro-management and group selection to a touchscreen device.
We've recently taken a look at Grab Games' upcoming RTS game Amoebattle to see how they're handling this thorniest of problems. Set within a microscopic world of bugs, germs and nutrients, you're tasked with directing your biological battlers across a series of maps, expanding your unit types and doing battle with the other life-forms attempting to dominate the world of the very very small indeed.
The best thing about Android gaming is that the barriers to entry for developers are all but nonexistent, allowing just about anybody to create and publish games for the platform. The worst thing about Android gaining, on the other hand, is that the barriers to entry for developers are all but nonexistent, allowing just about anybody to create and publish games for the platform. There’s a lot to sort through, and a lot of crap lying in wait for the unwary. So, in keeping with Hardcore Droid’s core mission——bettering the human condition by compiling lists of things——here are some of the best strategy games released so far in 2014.
Hardcore Droid:
"In Grab’s colorful world of Amoebattle, your primary mission is to fulfill the role of a budding microbiologist by gathering the battle spoils of scientific data for the ultimate goal of defeating an infection that is running rampant through the world. Led by your cheeky artificially intelligent assistant AMI (who bears a resemblance to the iconic Reddit alien), you and your army of amoebae (you guessed it) battle against a slew of microscopic predators using RTS-style maneuvers."
AR - Amoebattle is, perhaps, the first original mobile real-time strategy that can be called that without any stretch. Most of the real-time strategies are either too simple or too flawed, and the ones that are working, are mirror copies of older titles. Amoebattle manages to be neither. And it manages to do so without ridiculous production values.
