Machinarium 'hopefully' coming to iPad next month

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 26th 2011 11:30PM

Amanita Design's lovely little automated adventure title Machinarium seems like a natural fit for the iPad, which is in many respects also a tiny, helpful robot. The game hasn't made its way to the tablet due to its Apple-unfriendly Flash programming; however, Amanita founder Jakub Dvorsky recently told Pocket Gamer that the title's iPad iteration "should be ready during the next month ... hopefully."

We suppose we can excuse the ambiguity, considering how difficult it must be to rebuild a Flash-based game on a non-Flash-based platform. We only ask for one thing in return: Extra robots. We don't care who they are or what they do, we just need them to be adorable.

Via: MTV Multiplayer
Source: Pocket Gamer

Tags: adventure, amanita-design, apple, flash, ipad, Machinarium, mobile

Reader Comments (16)

If the iPad is good for, it's point and click adventures! But I think we can all agree a Machinarium 2 is in order, we've been patient.

@Alex Trebek
good for anything*
...awks.

If I had an Ipad I'd buy this again in a heartbeat. I guess I'll just have to wait patiently for Machinarium 2.

Instant buy for me, despite having played through it once, I would love to do it again on my ipad.

Can't wait for this game to come to the iPad. Still no idea on what the filesize is or how much it's going to cost.

http://www.gamingnerd.com

@GamingNerd

Why is there a link in your post that has seemingly nothing to do with the story and/or your own comment? Honestly.

How about Android, guys? It's flash-friendly.

Actually, I read somewhere that people have even managed to install the PC version on an Android tablet, but it sounded pretty hacky. I would much prefer an official release. Come on, porting it ought to be a breeze.

@Kevadu
I don't know. Everyone I know with an Android phone leaves Flash disabled because it's not really all too friendly...to the device's performance or its battery life.

Oh my goodness yes. Indie games on the iPad are made to be, first World of Goo & Osmos and then this.

Just make it 5 bucks por favor.

Wasn't Adobe Flash CS5 supposed to be able to develop for iOS? Whatever happened to that?

http://www.mockinggamingnerd.com

@DBuckEye

You actually can develop for iOS (and a ton of other things as well), but the apple store has a specific SDK that you have to use in order to publish it and it's completely different than Google's Android SDK for example. Making the game run on a computer in flash is actually really simple, but then you have to add the code that makes it work on the specific SDKs which actually requires a fair bit of recoding. All the calls for clicking and dragging have to be completely re-written for example. It's quite an undertaking especially with a game as complex as this.