{"id":308,"date":"2015-06-14T06:23:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=308"},"modified":"2015-06-14T06:23:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:23:48","slug":"platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work on Aurora\u2019s Nightmare continues, but what platforms are you going to be able to play it on when it\u2019s done?\u00a0 Well, the initial platform is PC.\u00a0 Aside from the fact that most visual novels are on PC, it\u2019s also the cheapest and easiest platform to develop for.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t plan to stop there.\u00a0 I should be able to get an Android version together without too much extra cost or effort.\u00a0 Though, due to the amount of text, it won\u2019t be very well suited for phone sized screens.\u00a0 It should work nicely on tablets though, and I think visual novels would be a perfect fit for high end ebook readers like Amazon\u2019s Kindle Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be more?\u00a0 Possibly.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think visual novels are a very good fit for home consoles (like the PS4), but they do work nicely on portable ones.\u00a0 So I could see Aurora\u2019s Nightmare getting released on the 3DS and\/or Vita.\u00a0 But that\u2019s easier said than done.\u00a0 Aside from working things out with Nintendo and\/or Sony, I\u2019d need to get a dev kit, resize all the art, get an ESRB rating, and quite likely reprogram the entire engine.\u00a0 And all that stuff not only takes time but a decent bit of money too.<\/p>\n<p>So whether or not 3DS or Vita versions happen will likely depend on how successful the PC and\/or Android versions are.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely a possibility, but if you\u2019re interested in Aurora\u2019s Nightmare, I highly recommend getting the PC version (or maybe waiting a little longer for the Android one), rather than waiting a lot longer for console versions that may or may not come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on Aurora\u2019s Nightmare continues, but what platforms are you going to be able to play it on when it\u2019s done?\u00a0 Well, the initial platform is PC.\u00a0 Aside from the fact that most visual novels are on PC, it\u2019s also the cheapest and easiest platform to develop for.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t plan to stop there.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/platforms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Platforms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}