Galcon Fusion iPad hit by launch bugs, developer still waiting for his iPad
Users reporting problems with the game, but dev can't do anything about it
Imagine you're a developer who has just had your game released for the iPad on launch day. You'd be pretty ecstatic, right?
Phil Hassey, creator of Galcon Fusion, was one such happy developer, until he began to receive emails from iPad gamers alerting him to a number of bugs in the game's code.
Unfortunately for Phil, he's yet to receive his own iPad because he lives, in his words, "in the middle of nowhere", and until it arrives he's unable to do anything about the game's problems.
It's clearly an issue when developers for a platform don't have the hardware from the get-go, restricting them from emulating any bugs found by launch day users.
Galcon Fusion is a cross-platform multiplayer strategy game that you can play on iPad, Mac, and PC. We gave the original Galcon on iPhone a Silver Award back in 2008.
Mike Rose
An expert in the indie games scene, Mike comes to Pocket Gamer as our handheld gaming correspondent. He is the author of 250 Indie Games You Must Play.