Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition ‘Hit A Snag’ On Android, Team Already Working On Sequel For iOS

Rob LeFebvre (8:10 pm PDT, Jan 2nd)

According to Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Creative Director, Trent Oster, the development team has “hit a snag” in getting the game up and running on Android OS.

According to a Tweet on his Twitter account, Oster says that the Android version of the highly regarded RPG will be a bit longer in development.

As you can see on Twitter, @TrentOster posted the following tweet today:

We’ve hit a snag with BG resource handling and ship panel APK files. We’re going to be a while yet on Android.

We have requested more info, but at this time, Mr. Oster has not replied.

In related news, Oster also mentioned that the licensing deal his company, Overhaul Games, struck with Wizards of the Coast indeed included the rights to make Baldur’s Gate II Enhanced Edition as well. In a separate tweet today, he mentioned that the work has already begun on the sequel:

The #BGEE deal included #BG2EE the content team is already at work on it.

We can only assume that the second enhanced edition will release on iOS, as did the first Baldur’s Gate, and then perhaps on Android, once the team works out any OS-level issues.

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http://www.facebook.com/andrew.york1 Andrew York
I really wanted to give this company money but it’s pretty clear that Android is not a top priority since they focused on iOS releases first, begun development on the sequel, and still haven’t released the first for Android.
- Kr00
  Android is harder to develop for. Multiple handsets, multiple OS’s, multiple resolutions, multiple screen sizes, multiple OEM’s. It’s not as easy as iOS. It’s called fragmentation. The single biggest drawback for developers writing for android. Don’t blame the company. Blame google.
  - Brandon Baecker
    They seem to manage OK for PCs and all their different hardware…
  - Net Nugget
    It;s not that coding for android is hard at all.. it;s that they chose to build it for iOS first then port it.. you can ask just about any developer around it is much easier to port FROM Android to iOS than it is teh other way around…
Archie
That’s bollocks. They are the same as every other developer and put android at the bottom of the pile. You would think with there being a larger market share and android getting more popular all the time it would be more financially beneficial to them to put the same effort into android versions of apps.
http://www.facebook.com/joseph.cullen1 Joseph Cullen
still can’t believe we can put people in space but can’t put a freakin video game on a freakin tablet WTF?!?

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