Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

[jlfarris]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16?

Great find, just added the screenshots to the OP.

Thanks, but FaceMask deserves the credit, he's the one who posted yesterday about the mobile dev that Joe Montana owns and the job posting in the forum from April that I linked.

FaceMask's original post from yesterday - probably the one I should have linked in the first place.

[stiffarmleft]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Looks to have the NFL license because it's mobile I assume.

[kjcheezhead]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Those screens look good. Looks like it will have the NFL license since they have a shot of the Texans stadium. I'm excited to see where they go with this.

[jyoung]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Looks to have the NFL license because it's mobile I assume.

The terms of the agreement between the NFL and EA place no licensing restrictions on mobile games and on browser games:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/big-deal-ea-and-nfl-ink-exclusive-licensing-agreement/1100-6114977/

"The NFL/EA arrangement encompasses action, simulation, arcade-style, and manager games made for PCs, consoles, and handhelds (both the DS and PSP, included), giving EA a firm hold on the football gaming market. The deal does not include titles for mobile phones or Internet-based games, but does include online features of consoles. With next-generation consoles scheduled for release next holiday season, EA looks to handily dominate the professional football market for the duration of the license."

[grabursock55]

thats a bummer. I never really cared for mobile games

[Mbalmer]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Anyway a modder/hacker could turn this into a pc game if it does get released for mobile devices?

[Hooe]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Anyway a modder/hacker could turn this into a pc game if it does get released for mobile devices?

1 - No, that's not possible. iOS and Android applications are sandboxed, they require the device's specific operating system to run. The only way it gets to PC is if the developer delivers a PC version of the app; UE4 supports multi-platform deployment, I assume, though I have no idea if it's as simple as, say, Unity is.

2 - Modding discussion isn't permitted on this forum, so I'm nipping this in the bud before it goes any further.

[hanzsomehanz]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

I hope this goes thru!

Im not expecting a non mobile Football game to rival Maddden on the CG consoles but I am hoping it warrants consumers attention enough to consider what the average gamer should be getting out of Madddn by now.

Im not big on Mobile gaming outside of the escape game that I play but I would certainly add this title to my small library.

For Mike Florio to trash EA about a month back and now share this news makes me wonder if he already knew somethng was underway. I hope this mobile game gives the developers and publishers some steam to go console - that unreal engine holds more weight w me than Ignite/Infinity.

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[LingeringRegime]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Mobile Game???

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[lopro]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Why mobile why why why mobile why why why omg why my God im never gonna get another football game again i see. I hate NFL, EGay, Roger Goodell and everyone involved in this gay deal. UGH

[Big FN Deal]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

The terms of the agreement between the NFL and EA place no licensing restrictions on mobile games and on browser games:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/big-deal-ea-and-nfl-ink-exclusive-licensing-agreement/1100-6114977/

"The NFL/EA arrangement encompasses action, simulation, arcade-style, and manager games made for PCs, consoles, and handhelds (both the DS and PSP, included), giving EA a firm hold on the football gaming market. The deal does not include titles for mobile phones or Internet-based games, but does include online features of consoles. With next-generation consoles scheduled for release next holiday season, EA looks to handily dominate the professional football market for the duration of the license."

The bold stings twice as bad and just seems spiteful because there isn't even an EA NFL licensed game on the PC.

I guess I could Google it and I will at some point but is there a way to attach mobile devices to a tv and if so, how adequate can mobile devices be as gaming consoles?

[charter04]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

The bold stings twice as bad and just seems spiteful because there isn't even an EA NFL licensed game on the PC.



I guess I could Google it and I will at some point but is there a way to attach mobile devices to a tv and if so, how adequate can mobile devices be as gaming consoles?

Apple has a Hdmi cable to hook up an iPad or iPhone to a tv. The problem would be with no controller. Apple TV also allows you to display things from those devices to a tv. Still the problem is no controller other than the touch screen. I'm not sure if there is a controller compatible with iPads or iPhones

[kjcheezhead]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

Not saying this will be the game that does it, but a successful mobile game could damage EAs exclusive if it gets enough attention. I remember Ian Cummings saying as much in a podcast last year. He said mobile games were almost to the point where a ps2 quality nfl 2k5 could siphon a lot of sales from Madden on the consoles. Ian works on mobile games so take it for what it worth though.

Also 2ks mlb exclusive ended mostly because the show worked around it and was so successful that it made the exclusive too expensive for the return on investment.

[Hooe]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

I don't think I agree with what Ian said with respect to a mobile game ever getting to the point where it eats into Madden's sales. The mobile gaming audience and the console gaming audience are very different from each other with respect to what they expect from a game and don't really overlap anymore.

The mobile game space suffered from a race-to-the-bottom mentality, and now every game released on mobile which isn't already a major IP (e.g. Square Enix porting a Final Fantasy game to mobile) must either launch at a free-to-play or $0.99 price point, leaving the developer only ads and micro transactions to cover cost and turn a profit. If you release a game for any more than that and no one has heard of you, no one is buying your game. In addition, mobile games are far more bite-sized in design; you have to basically make a game where a user can feel like he's made significant progress by playing for two minutes while he's waiting in the dentist office waiting room for an appointment, after which he's going to put the game down until his next two minutes of killing time. Look at the most successful mobile games for examples of this - Angry Birds, Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans, Temple Run, Threes... etc. etc.

By contrast, console and PC gamers expect to pay a larger up-front price but with few to zero interruptions and zero pay walls in their experience. A console gamer will sit down and play a game for an extended period of time, so longer and more drawn out narratives are allowed, and longer game sections / levels are also not only tolerated but expected.

Given the distinction between the two audiences, I don't see how a traditional football game in the ilk of Madden or NFL 2K works on mobile. The average mobile gamer isn't going to sit down with his iPad for an hour and play a complete football game, and playing a complete game over the course of dozens of mini-sessions (i.e. five minutes here and there) is going to take way too long for the average mobile gamer's attention span. A successful football game on mobile is going to have to greatly reduce the length of the game and also greatly reduce the amount of real-time user responsibility the user has over the outcome of the game. Such a game on mobile is going to look and play very different from any traditional console football game, and the audiences aren't going to overlap very much beyond having football fans in both.

[kjcheezhead]

Re: Joe Montana Football 16 Looks to be a Mobile Game, Utilizing Unreal Engine 4

All good points. I'm not totally convinced myself, but there have been a few big titles like GTA and final fantasy on mobiles. It basically comes down to how good the game is and if the football market is ready for a title other than madden I guess.
Personally I don't play a ton of mobiles other than candy crush, but I'm always looking for football games and would pay a reasonable amount for a good one. I have yet to find one for my kindle, but maybe this will be it.