Given the success in smartphone and tablet sales and the degree of technological progress these devices have shown over the past few months, playing in an Android terminal has clearly evolved since its inception. mini games, puzzle games or endless runners The game, which is still popular with consumers due to its lightness and short gaming sessions, is now possible to go much further in the experiences that can be offered to the players.
Without getting into the extreme profile of the Nvidia SHIELD Tablet that will be targeted hardcore gamer What is most convincing is that in some cases it is now possible to play the same games on Android as on PC or home consoles. We are especially considering examples such as The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us, which take advantage of ports on Android terminals.
Another name could join the list: Morrowind, the third game in the Elder Scrolls saga which recently had success again with Skyrim. As for Morrowind, if the game is a bit old (released in 2002), its huge commercial success (four million sales worldwide) has created one of the most active mod developer communities in the world of video games.
However, the possibility of Morrowind coming to Android is not an official port of the game’s developer and publisher, Bethesda. Open source project created at the initiative of the OpenMW communitySince 2010 he has been working on a refresh of the Elder Scrolls saga component on modern platforms. Android will be one of those platforms, even if players need a little patience, as evidenced by a video released by OpenMW to show the progress of the project.
Indeed the game is not stable yet at the moment and even if it manages to launch, currently only running at 8fps framerate. In other words, it’s still unplayable as it is now, but the development of the title is progressing pretty fast, the real challenge lies in the mismatch of processor architectures from 2002 to 2014.
Obviously, at such an early stage of development, it’s impossible to give an exact release date, but the work seems to be on the right track. If OpenMW had been born on Android, it would not have been the first of its kind, as it was in the same open source format that was developed. OpenTTD, an Android port of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
