Controller Support for BB2?

Just read about the xbox export feature coming and thought I might ask. I know not a lot of people want or need controller support making it not the highest priority but any idea when this might happen?

I constantly get people messaging me for controller support for DARTHY on steam

Congrats on the BB2! It has been pretty badass so far

 

morning bump. anyone?

 

+1 Would like to know more about controller compatibility for Steam, desktop (Windows or Apple), XBOX, and AppleTv.
Controller support and delivering a console experience are important on these platforms

 

The only thing I can really say is that it's one of the important things still on our plate, unfortunately it's been bumped several times.

 

I get it but can't really hold back how sad that makes me... has been almost a year

 

Unfortunately too long for no controller support purchased an asset from unity asset store and converting DARTHY now. BB would be awesome for game jams but no controllers stops it. Will still work with bb for simple games but I need to move on.

 

Is it easy to convert/port a Buildbox game to Unity?

 

I'm having fun doing it and was scared of unity for a long time but it is pretty easy. Lots of tutorials on youtube or udemy for 2d games. Using this as a starting point https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/26617 and this for tiling https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/83522

 

Thanks Collin, I meant rather to port it without having to do it again. Like they did with Color Switch after the first releases. Something that takes the existing code and converts it into 'unity language'... some magic tool. haha.

 

I don't think something like that exists. CS was pretty simple to begin with so I don't think it took them long to remake and I have read it was remade in unity but I think it uses different engine.

 

It will not be coming for BB2 simply because we didn't have enough request for it. We had a few customers release games on steam, and they mostly went back to mobile as that's where the revenue was.

That said, with BB3.0 our big push is for Indies, not just mobile, so expect something more with 3.0.

 

Thanks for heads up