No More Robots’ excessive downhill freeriding expertise Descenders ($9.99) simply hit cell platforms this month by way of Noodlecake Games as a premium launch. This is No More Robots’ first sport on cell. Following the sport’s launch on each iOS and Android, I had an opportunity to speak to No More Robots Company Director Mike Rose in regards to the bringing Descenders to cell, the response up to now, how they labored with Noodlecake Games, potential future cell ports, subscription providers, and much more.

TouchArcade: How has the response been to Descenders on cell up to now?

Mike Rose: It’s been respectable! On iOS there’s been just about zero points, so gross sales have trundled alongside and the rankings are good. On Android it’s been a unique story. With what number of totally different Android units there are, it’s ended up being the case {that a} bunch of units have points. So we’re having to do a bunch of labor to suss that each one out. But regardless, the Android model has been promoting decently, even higher than the iOS model! We’re nonetheless fairly pleased with it.

TA: What made you determine to convey Descenders to cell as No More Robots’ first title on the platform?

MR: In our quest to beat Skyrim to “sport on most platforms ever”, it made sense that cell can be subsequent. We additionally had been very satisfied as soon as we noticed the job that Plastic Fern did translating the controls to the contact display screen. It’s nonetheless form of insane to me how good the controls really feel on the contact display screen.

TA: Descenders has seen releases on principally the whole lot, and has even been in subscription providers like Xbox Game Pass. You’ve beforehand talked about how Xbox Game Pass has been nice for the sport. How has the response been on the service because the Xbox Series X improve arrived?

MR: We put out a Series X improve final summer season, and that went down very nicely. It upped the variety of gamers in a foyer from 4 to eight, and it added 4K assist, 120fps assist, the works. Having a really next-gen model of Descenders has undoubtedly helped, particularly as an increasing number of folks lastly get their fingers on the brand new {hardware}.

TA: Noodlecake Games is superior, however how did you find yourself working with them for this port and publishing it on cell?

MR: I used to be attempting to suss out the best way to get Descenders on cell, particularly with our lack of awareness available in the market, and I ended up doing what I at all times do: utilizing my Twitter account to search out assist. I tweeted out we had been in search of a associate, and Noodlecake landed in my DMs. Had one chat with them, and it was clear fairly shortly that they labored in a really comparable solution to us. So all of it panned out fairly shortly from that time.

TA: How was it working with Noodlecake Games on porting Descenders to cell?

MR: Very good — they dealt with just about the whole lot, so we solely needed to leap in on the finish and begin hooking up our group with the sport’s launch. Definitely hoping to work with them on future NMR titles for cell.

TA: In the previous, you talked about going with a $24.99 value level would make gamers assume Descenders provides a better high quality than different titles (or one thing to that diploma). Did that additionally apply to why the cell model is priced at $9.99?

MR: Yeah we needed to go together with a better value on cell, partially to point out that we imply enterprise, partially to point out that we’ve made a sport that’s real high quality, and partially as a f*ck you to the cell house too. We’ve had an enormous quantity of backlash to it, particularly from Android customers, and but individuals are nonetheless shopping for it for $10, and it’s promoting simply as many copies as on the console platforms. So clearly it’s extra of a public factor to whine in regards to the value of cell video games, but there’s nonetheless loads of people who find themselves keen to assist cell video games with a better value.

TA: Will updates for all platforms arrive on the identical time going ahead?

MR: That’s the plan! We plan to place some further cell updates out too, simply so as to add some new bike parks and that form of factor.

TA: Did you think about releasing Descenders on a subscription service for cell or was the plan to at all times have it launch as a premium purchase as soon as and play sport?

MR: We undoubtedly thought of it, in reality we had been speaking to somebody large in regards to the sport being on their platform. But the talks dragged and dragged to the purpose that the sport was able to go on cell for weeks, however we had been simply sat ready for them to reply us extra shortly. So we determined to screw that and simply go for it. Big companies are simply so bloody sluggish! Really unsure how any of them ever get something accomplished.

TA: How is the sport doing on Android in comparison with iOS?

MR: Yeah as I discussed, surprisingly nicely! Especially contemplating that the person ranking has taken a success resulting from points on sure telephones. We’re hoping that after we’ve these points sorted and the ranking begins climbing once more, we’ll see gross sales go up with that too.

TA: Have you had any shocking suggestions from cell gamers up to now that you simply didn’t count on?

MR: One of probably the most troublesome issues on the launch, was that 99.9% of Android customers assumed that the sport was going to be free. So when it launched with a price ticket, some folks obtained extraordinarily nasty all throughout social media about it. We had messages on Instagram, Tiktok, Reddit, our Discord server, all over, basically saying “how dare you cost cash in your sport.” Plenty of backseat analysts letting us know that each one we would have liked to do was make the sport free, put some advertisements in it, and we might make tens of millions! Can’t imagine we didn’t consider that.

It’s hilarious, after all, that for years all of us spent so lengthy complaining about shitty free-to-play video games with gacha mechanics, pay-to-win, obtrusive advertisements, and screamed “simply let me pay to play the sport!!”… and now it’s been fully reversed. An complete platform of players has been taught to not pay for video games, and as a substitute beg for advertisements. So simply this as soon as, you may simply give us cash for our sport, after which we’ll provide you with a full, uninterrupted console-quality sport.

TA: What No More Robots sport would you prefer to see on cell sooner or later?

MR: Oh the objective is to convey as a lot of them as doable to cell. I reckon it’s probably we’ll deal with the likes of ‘Yes, Your Grace‘, ‘Let’s Build a Zoo’, ‘Nowhere Prophet’ and ‘Spirittea’ subsequent!

Thanks to Mike Rose of No More Robots for his time following the launch of Descenders on cell.