3DS Half-Life Created 6 years ago2018-11-13 21:00:52 UTC by Screamernail

So I've been asking in the Nintendo Developer forums about how much the 3DS can handle. They said that it could handle AvP2, or at-least most of it and said it was "doable" in the 3DS. I've come up with an idea about Half-Life on the 3DS, using Unity or OpenGL. (If OpenGL works that is)

As a developer, homebrewing isn't required/an option so I might just build a more simple HL game for the console to spare time. The 3DS isn't as weak as I thought, but hard to make games for.

So what do you people say about this? Any tips even?

What's the point? I wouldn't want to play an FPS with the 3DS's controls.

Xash has (or had) a renderer for Android if you really want to run Half-Life on a mobile device.

I'm not gonna port the actual game like a homebrew. I am gonna make a different, more fitting version for the console in Unity.

It's called "Small Half-Life" for now and are gonna be more different then the actual.

FPS on small devices is a mockery. Even on PSP it's more chore than play.

PC's community is also a mockery. That's why I'm making 3DS games rather than computer games.

Some help here? I want some influence.

Some things aren’t meant to be. Trust me, I’ve been there. You can’t force a round peg into a square 3DS. You can’t expect things to work identically, not without possibly inventing a new control scheme that compensates or expands existing methods.

Never mind, you do you man.

FPS' controlled with a joystick is a pain. FPS' controlled with a tiny 'joystick' (basically a nub) on a small, portable little thing is no less of a pain. I appreciate you asking for tips, but sometimes you have to think things through a little bit more before announcing the idea on a public forum.

Okay.

I have come to the conclusion that first person shooters don't work on consoles (and that fps games ruined gaming) so I will make Half-Life 3DS more different.

No more first person.

I have come to the conclusion that first person shooters don't work on consoles

well not with that attitude

I actually put Quake 1 on my homebrewed PSP back in the day and had no real issues at all -- beat it on hard pretty easily. It helped that I could rebind controls to fit the console though.

Still. There's enough of the same formula as it is. It has been milked too much and people need to get into other genres. At-least what I think.