No More Robots’ First Mobile Game, A Premium Price, iOS and Android Sales, and More – TouchArcade

No Extra Robots’ excessive downhill freeriding expertise Descenders ($9.99) simply hit cell platforms this month by means of Noodlecake Video games as a premium launch. That is No Extra Robots’ first recreation on cell. Following the sport’s launch on each iOS and Android, I had an opportunity to speak to No Extra Robots Firm Director Mike Rose in regards to the bringing Descenders to cell, the response to this point, how they labored with Noodlecake Video games, potential future cell ports, subscription companies, and much more.

TouchArcade: How has the response been to Descenders on cell to this point?

Mike Rose: It’s been respectable! On iOS there’s been just about zero points, so gross sales have trundled alongside and the scores are good. On Android it’s been a special story. With what number of completely different Android gadgets there are, it’s ended up being the case {that a} bunch of gadgets have points. So we’re having to do a bunch of labor to suss that each one out. However regardless, the Android model has been promoting decently, even higher than the iOS model! We’re nonetheless fairly pleased with it.

TA: What made you determine to deliver Descenders to cell as No Extra Robots’ first title on the platform?

MR: In our quest to beat Skyrim to “recreation on most platforms ever”, it made sense that cell could be subsequent. We additionally have been very satisfied as soon as we noticed the job that Plastic Fern did translating the controls to the contact display screen. It’s nonetheless form of insane to me how good the controls really feel on the contact display screen.

TA: Descenders has seen releases on principally the whole lot, and has even been in subscription companies like Xbox Sport Cross. You’ve beforehand talked about how Xbox Sport Cross has been nice for the sport. How has the response been on the service because the Xbox Collection X improve arrived?

MR: We put out a Collection X improve final summer season, and that went down very properly. It upped the variety of gamers in a foyer from 4 to eight, and it added 4K help, 120fps help, the works. Having a really next-gen model of Descenders has positively helped, particularly as increasingly more individuals lastly get their palms on the brand new {hardware}.

TA: Noodlecake Video games is superior, however how did you find yourself working with them for this port and publishing it on cell?

MR: I used to be making an attempt to suss out tips on how to get Descenders on cell, particularly with our lack of knowledge available in the market, and I ended up doing what I all the time do: utilizing my Twitter account to search out assist. I tweeted out we have been searching for a associate, and Noodlecake landed in my DMs. Had one chat with them, and it was clear fairly rapidly that they labored in a really related strategy to us. So all of it panned out fairly rapidly from that time.

TA: How was it working with Noodlecake Video games on porting Descenders to cell?

MR: Excellent — they dealt with just about the whole lot, so we solely needed to soar in on the finish and begin hooking up our group with the sport’s launch. Positively hoping to work with them on future NMR titles for cell.

TA: Prior to now, you talked about going with a $24.99 value level would make gamers suppose Descenders affords a better high quality than different titles (or one thing to that diploma). Did that additionally apply to why the cell model is priced at $9.99?

MR: Yeah we wished to go together with a better value on cell, partially to point out that we imply enterprise, partially to point out that we’ve made a recreation that’s real high quality, and partially as a f*ck you to the cell area too. We’ve had an enormous quantity of backlash to it, particularly from Android customers, and but persons are nonetheless shopping for it for $10, and it’s promoting simply as many copies as on the console platforms. So clearly it’s extra of a public factor to whine in regards to the value of cell video games, but there’s nonetheless loads of people who find themselves keen to help cell video games with a better value.

TA: Will updates for all platforms arrive on the identical time going ahead?

MR: That’s the plan! We plan to place some further cell updates out too, simply so as to add some new bike parks and that form of factor.

TA: Did you contemplate releasing Descenders on a subscription service for cell or was the plan to all the time have it launch as a premium purchase as soon as and play recreation?

MR: We positively thought of it, in actual fact we had been speaking to somebody large in regards to the recreation being on their platform. However the talks dragged and dragged to the purpose that the sport was able to go on cell for weeks, however we have been simply sat ready for them to reply us extra rapidly. So we determined to screw that and simply go for it. Huge companies are simply so bloody sluggish! Actually undecided how any of them ever get something executed.

TA: How is the sport doing on Android in comparison with iOS?

MR: Yeah as I discussed, surprisingly properly! Particularly contemplating that the consumer ranking has taken a success because of points on sure telephones. We’re hoping that when we now have these points sorted and the ranking begins climbing once more, we’ll see gross sales go up with that too.

TA: Have you ever had any shocking suggestions from cell gamers to this point that you just didn’t anticipate?

MR: Probably the most tough issues on the launch, was that 99.9% of Android customers assumed that the sport was going to be free. So when it launched with a price ticket, some individuals received extraordinarily nasty all throughout social media about it. We had messages on Instagram, Tiktok, Reddit, our Discord server, far and wide, primarily saying “how dare you cost cash on your recreation.” Loads of backseat analysts letting us know that each one we would have liked to do was make the sport free, put some adverts in it, and we might make tens of millions! Can’t consider we didn’t consider that.

It’s hilarious, after all, that for years all of us spent so lengthy complaining about shitty free-to-play video games with gacha mechanics, pay-to-win, obtrusive adverts, and screamed “simply let me pay to play the sport!!”… and now it’s been fully reversed. A complete platform of avid gamers has been taught to not pay for video games, and as a substitute beg for adverts. So simply this as soon as, you may simply give us cash for our recreation, after which we’ll offer you a full, uninterrupted console-quality recreation.

TA: What No Extra Robots recreation would you prefer to see on cell sooner or later?

MR: Oh the purpose is to deliver as lots of them as potential to cell. I reckon it’s possible we’ll deal with the likes of ‘Sure, Your Grace‘, ‘Let’s Construct a Zoo’, ‘Nowhere Prophet’ and ‘Spirittea’ subsequent!

Due to Mike Rose of No Extra Robots for his time following the launch of Descenders on cell.