Agreed, probably better to stick to keyframes for player characters and save the longer antics for NPCs. I recall Rygar on PS2 being bad for this - long attack animations that you couldn 't break out of if you missed your opponent.
I 'll definitely be looking into PS Mobile more. If discoverability is good, that coupled with less saturation compared to iOS devices will make it pretty attractive,
Ryan - Did you expect at all that sort of backlash from the hardcore gaming crowd Really surprising to me, as there are a lot of advantages to developing for iOS that is very conductive to innovative games, especially for start ups that don 't have a vault of finances ...
Vancouver 's industry history is actually working against it in this case. Big, entrenched studios with lots of overhead and unfamiliarity with mobile/social now finding themselves swimming against the tide. The shift is happening now, but there is some unfortunate bloodletting going on. It will take awhile, but things will ...
