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Console Porting Essentials

$307.00

Prepare a PC or mobile game for a console checklist: input, suspend, saves, and certification traps.

SKU: MGD-C50 Category:

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Prepare a PC or mobile game for a console checklist: input, suspend, saves, and certification traps. Across about 14 hours you will map keyboard or touch actions to a controller, save when the system suspends the game, read the platform checklist, and label the build.

Advanced · 14 hours · Publishing

Curriculum

Module 1 · Input

  1. Map keyboard or touch actions to a controller
  2. Support the platform button names
  3. Add a reconnect if a controller drops
  4. Test every required action

Module 2 · Suspend and saves

  1. Save when the system suspends the game
  2. Restore to a sensible moment
  3. Handle a full storage device
  4. Test a power loss during a save

Module 3 · Certification

  1. Read the platform checklist
  2. Fix a missing legal screen or rating
  3. Remove a debug menu from the submission build
  4. Write the reviewer notes

Module 4 · A submission build

  1. Label the build
  2. Play the first thirty minutes on the kit
  3. List the known issues
  4. Store the build you intend to send
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