You know when you spend just a little bit too long on the bog, and you get that awful, numbing pins and needles in your legs because you’re caught up reading something in a magazine? No, no you don’t because nobody reads magazines anymore.
What people do these days during their protracted bowel movements, is browse through the memetic twaddle that populates 9gag or play games on their tablets. Soon enough, the game that’ll be the cause of those pins and needles will be everyone’s favourite maths-based strategic rogue-like-like, Desktop Dungeons.
We hooked up with QCF Designs’ Danny Day and Marc Luck at Gamescom’s Indie Mega-booth, where they took the opportunity to show us the mobile, tablet-based version of their award-wining game. It looks, as you’d expect very much like the PC version, and right now controls very much like it. It has touch-based controls, though they’re not quite as refined as you’d expect from a touch-based game. That, however, is coming.
Beyond that, it’s the very same Desktop dungeon’s you’ve come to love – quite literally. The tablet version has full cross platform save compatibility with the Steam and browser-based versions, meaning you’ll soon be able to pick up and play the game from wherever you like.
We’re not quite sure when to expect no-longer-confined-to-a-desktop dungeons, but we are rather looking forward to it, because as far as I’m concerned, a tablet is the perfect home for the game’s minutes-long sessions. What we’re not looking quite as forward to is the temporary loss of feeling in our legs.
Last Updated: August 14, 2014
ToshZA
August 14, 2014 at 09:35
Great. Between this, Plague Inc and Limbo – I’ll never have a reason to get up. Except to charge the ipad.
SargonTheGreatPandaOfAkkad
August 14, 2014 at 10:39
Foolish man. WIFI charger FTW. 😛
WAIT – is Plague Inc on the iPad too?
ToshZA
August 14, 2014 at 10:40
LOL on all mobile devices dude. 😀
Admiral Chief Beta Tester
August 14, 2014 at 09:35
MAGNIFICENT beard!
Admiral Chief Beta Tester
August 14, 2014 at 09:36
” full cross platform save compatibility”
This my friends, is the future I dream of!
Kensei Seraph
August 14, 2014 at 09:42
Now if it just had cross-buy functionality as well.
In fact I wouldn’t mind paying extra if I could buy a version that comes with cross-buy.
Admiral Chief Beta Tester
August 14, 2014 at 09:43
Aye, as long as you don’t cross-DRESS 😛
Kensei Seraph
August 14, 2014 at 09:48
Well now days it’s normal for a woman to wear a t-shirt and jeans so does that mean if a guy wears a t-shirt and jeans he’s cross-dressing?
Thats_how_I_Troll
August 14, 2014 at 16:21
When a woman cross dresses, its a statement… When a man does it, Transvestite! We can still say transvestite right?
Umar
August 14, 2014 at 09:43
LOL I just said that now. that is the main thing!
Umar
August 14, 2014 at 09:43
That is not the future I dream of. Cross-buy , that is my dream
Umar
August 14, 2014 at 09:44
Cross-anything is the best!!
I bought Rogue Legacy for my vita. And now I have it for PS3 and my non-existent PS4
Hammersteyn
August 14, 2014 at 10:01
Have you beaten the remix bosses yet?
CAE9872
August 14, 2014 at 10:32
I take it you have? I haven’t bought it yet but the damn thing keeps popping up everywhere that I may have no choice!
Hammersteyn
August 14, 2014 at 10:45
It’s NES hard, luckily when you die you get teleported out and ca jump right back in, but Youtube the fights.
Umar
August 14, 2014 at 10:44
Hell know, still early stages. game is clamping my balls!
Hammersteyn
August 14, 2014 at 10:46
One of the achievements is beat the game from the start without using the architect and dying less than 16 times. Yeah, nope.
Umar
August 14, 2014 at 10:53
Youtubed some remix bosses, holy mother!
Hammersteyn
August 14, 2014 at 11:05
I spent most of my Saturday on the first two.
Umar
August 14, 2014 at 11:24
Beat them?
Hammersteyn
August 14, 2014 at 11:32
All of them. The last one in the darkness was strangely the easiest
Kensei Seraph
August 14, 2014 at 20:51
Well that ship sailed long ago.
CAE9872
August 14, 2014 at 10:43
100% agree – such a cool thing.
Hammersteyn
August 14, 2014 at 09:53
Cute couple
Gavin Mannion
August 14, 2014 at 11:29
This is likely to make the team millions… it’s where the game should always have been
Hammersteyn
August 14, 2014 at 11:33
I’m really happy for them, plus it puts us even more on the map.