OUYA in trouble Pocket Fleet developer Overdose Caffeine abandons platform

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Wow just when you thought OUYA was a home run comes word that Overdose Caffeine wont be releasing their massively popular and very good game Pocket Fleet. OUYA is Android games console you plug into the TV thing is developer are required to modify their games to work with the console and for some it’s more work than is viable with a small team.

While it might seem we would only need to map the controls in Pocket Fleet to the OUYA controller (a job of only a few days), it turned out to be much more than that. The biggest surprise was what they required in terms of new menu design. We assumed the user could move a cursor around to select things on our main menu, but this was not the case. The company required that we redesign the main screen so that people could move around it by highlighting different buttons. This may sound simple but certain circumstances meant that it was anything but. - Tolga Ozuygur

It’s a fair point if OUYA wants to be successful it has to smooth the path to getting games onto it’s console, content is king and if one of the best games around wont be on your console it might be time to look again at the ODK.

Read the full story over at Techcrunch “Why We Aren’t Developing For OUYA”