Iluya wrote:
I like the basic idea, but think you will run in some problems with your attempt very soon:
1. Most Win-devices aren't as powerful as iOSes or Androids and even on them the versions run bad to nonplayable (osu!stream excluded)- it will take quite a while (and some genuie ideas) to optimize the code (I/O-processing on osu!droid is horrible). Also your plan to include skin support is a problem here: Skins require many ressources!
2. I personally dont like the idea, that my Osu-Account-Data is running through a 3rd party program. You basically get the whole account with your plans (not saying you WILL do it; just, that it is not a big step) - On the other hand: I doubt that ppy is going to allow direct db-access
2.1 i dont need an integrated irc.. while playing there is no use for that and after that i can use any other irc client as well... it is just battery/bandwidth wasting.
You have taken quite a challenging task. I wish you good luck with it
ok full skin support was a little bit huge but I was going to address that later. Also, I have thought about it and I think that I will release this only for windows phone 8 devices for 2 reasons.
1. Windows phone 8 devices are quite powerful. We're talking the high end models have 1.5 ghz dual core cpus with 1 gb of memory.
2. Windows phone 8 devices are a lot more common than phone 7 so it seems pointless making a phone 7 version mainly because I already saw that osu struggles to run on phone 7.
I could also have this version of osu identify if the phone is high end or low end and toggle off some graphical effects if its gonna slow it down too much.
Also, the reason why im intergrating irc is because all the irc clients on windows phone either don't support connecting to the osu irc or don't have an option to hide join part messages. Trust me I tried. So I was gonna try including that for that reason.
Also!! If you have any ideas for names for the this version of osu PLEASE post them!