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Posted June 03, 2013
All TBS games would probably work just fine. And most point-and-click adventure games too.
Posted June 03, 2013
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PMIK: Games which are unplayable with only touch:
- IE games
Take a look at GemRB, it contains a number of tweaks to make the games viable on tablets and phones (such as a scrolling area near the edge of the gameplay area), the Android builds available have them already compiled in, if you want the same behaviour on Windows or anything else, you'll likely need to build it yourself. Or it may just be a config setting, I haven't kept track on progress for a long time.

Oh, Surface Pro. You might want to ask around on IRC, #GemRB on Freenet, they should be able to help you out.
Post edited June 03, 2013 by Maighstir
Posted June 03, 2013
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PMIK: Legend of grimrock - only option for moving is WASD, so this game is unplayable on touch
Legend of Grimrock - you can enable arrow icons for movement.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18j0uairqbpfujpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
Posted June 03, 2013
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PMIK: Games which are unplayable with only touch:
- IE games
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Maighstir: Take a look at GemRB, it contains a number of tweaks to make the games viable on tablets and phones (such as a scrolling area near the edge of the gameplay area), the Android builds available have them already compiled in, if you want the same behaviour on Windows or anything else, you'll likely need to build it yourself. Or it may just be a config setting, I haven't kept track on progress for a long time.

Oh, Surface Pro. You might want to ask around on IRC, #GemRB on Freenet, they should be able to help you out.
Thanks! I'm trying that out right now!
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PMIK: Legend of grimrock - only option for moving is WASD, so this game is unplayable on touch
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JouinUP: Legend of Grimrock - you can enable arrow icons for movement.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18j0uairqbpfujpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
What! How the hell do you do that?
Post edited June 03, 2013 by PMIK
Posted June 03, 2013
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PMIK: What! How the hell do you do that?
Options -> Enable Arrow Icons

From what I remember. I do not have the game installed at the moment.
Post edited June 03, 2013 by JouinUP
Posted June 03, 2013
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PMIK: What! How the hell do you do that?
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JouinUP: Options -> Enable Arrow Icons
Doh!

I'll go give it a shot
Posted June 03, 2013
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JouinUP: Options -> Enable Arrow Icons
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PMIK: Doh!

I'll go give it a shot
There is a "Tablet Mode" in the options menu as well.
But I don't know what does.
Post edited June 03, 2013 by JouinUP
Posted June 03, 2013
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PMIK: Doh!

I'll go give it a shot
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JouinUP: There is a "Tablet mode" in the options menu too.
But I do not know what does.
I saw that one, it lets you attack with "left click" rather than "right click".
Posted June 03, 2013
Interesting thread. I'd like to try touchscreen gaming someday.
I was gonna mention LoG's arrow icons but JouinUP cleared it out better than I could because I don't have the game installed right now. Although I hated it as a movement technique... It's much harder to avoid enemy attacks this way.

As for other games, I'd try pretty much any game where the mouse is or can be set as the only controlling device, like most adventures. Including Gobliiins :-)
Posted June 03, 2013
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jpolastre: As for other games, I'd try pretty much any game where the mouse is or can be set as the only controlling device, like most adventures. Including Gobliiins :-)
Well, that if you have DosBox or Scummvm ports for that target platform. But they are usually available or at least can be rather portable. Loom for example is quite playable with scummvm on tablets.
Post edited June 03, 2013 by shmerl
Posted June 03, 2013
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jpolastre: As for other games, I'd try pretty much any game where the mouse is or can be set as the only controlling device, like most adventures. Including Gobliiins :-)
How could I forget Gobliiins! I'm going to try it now.

Legend of Grimrock now works beautifully on the surface. One caveat is that I can only really play it properly with the pen that comes with it. Finger touching doesn't quite work properly.

As you mentioned, the keyboard movement is superior, but the game is very playable like this.
Posted June 03, 2013
The Surface Pro! That sounds sweet! Can you give us a review on it?
Also, playing KoDP on a touchscreen sounds awesome. I know they ported it over to iOS and I've been really jealous
Posted June 04, 2013
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jpolastre: As for other games, I'd try pretty much any game where the mouse is or can be set as the only controlling device, like most adventures. Including Gobliiins :-)
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shmerl: Well, that if you have DosBox or Scummvm ports for that target platform. But they are usually available or at least can be rather portable. Loom for example is quite playable with scummvm on tablets.
You are right, of course. I hadn't checked whether they had ports to the mobile platforms, but a quick google shows that scummvm indeed has an android version (I have no time to follow up with dosbox BTW)
Also I'm not knowledgeable about the Surface Pro specifically, so I can't say it'll work for sure.
Posted June 04, 2013
Heroes 1-3, Machinarium and Torchlight work perfectly.
Posted June 04, 2013
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RaggieRags: Heroes 1-3, Machinarium and Torchlight work perfectly.
Cool I'll add them to the list and check them out myself at some point.

I'm having trouble running gemRB however, not really sure what I should be doing

Also gobliiins just won 't run properly every time ScummVM goes to fullscreen mode My cursor becomes unusable, works fine in windowed mode but then its far too tiny on the Surface Screen
Post edited June 05, 2013 by PMIK
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