I’m not saying I’ve got much time to beta test, but here are my observations, having tested all three omnibus apps (Choice of Games, Hosted Games and Heart’s Choice).
Overall, I’ve enjoyed myself. Yet, there is also room for development until we can agree that they are on par with the website. For example…well, here are the suggestions I’d submit from my paid experiences:
*
LAUNCH LAST PLAYED GAME AT APP START (if app was closed while a game was open)
When we used individual apps for each game, the app’s icon looked more inviting that the generic store logo. Though that’s not such a big problem, what could be improved in the omnibus app, at least, is an option to automatically bring player back to the last game they played, so that they won’t have to fetch it and launch it again and again and again. Without that, the app look a bit like a downgrade from what we had before…
JUSTIFIED TEXT
An option to justify the text. This is a basic thing for any professional made reading apps! I’ve been mentioning that for ages… it takes only 1 HTML or 1 CSS tag whichever you prefer, for goodness’— …however… I’ll be patient and take whatever is available for now. (Not much choice.) I know that sounds like a whim, but, seriously, aesthetics do make a difference regarding paid content!
FULLSCREEN
Fullscreen mode that’d trigger when we tap the top right corner of the screen. The titlebar / toolbar / grey thing above the text, plus to the android system navigation buttons, plus the android system menubar…both cover a ridiculously huge amount of screen for such small reading devices. How can we read comfortably? After all, we have to pay to make the lower corner ad banner disappear. So, one could expect the worth of available screen for the text would be understood by the technical team and that they would go for a maximum use of it in the paid version.
ACHIEVEMENTS
One would have thought that make achievements more important would have been one of the main goals of an omnibus app. An achievement completion ratio on each game profile, and of course, having Google Play Games handle them completely, or at least, synchronize them with it.
TAGS
A tags for non human main characters, and
a tags for when non human avatars/protagonists can be played. (Especially: robots, elves, extraterrestrials, vampires, werewolves.)
Tags such as possibly gender-free, possibly polyamory, possible asexual romances, featuring on the store would boost you sales as far as I am concerned. These gameplay features matters a lot to many players here.
PURCHASES
Restoration of purchases should rely on your website first, in priority, to check purchases, before it queries the Google PlayStore for them.
Why? Besides of matter of showing you oldest customer you still care?
Well because as they are right now, your omnibus apps can be fully used from any android based device, without the need of the any mobile store (for example, they could work on VR headsets, Raspberry Pi gadgets, Arduino, Alexa, Google Home, though sideload… but paid games that has been purchased on the website can’t unlock if there is no Google PlayStore and Google Services, etc. because the app checks on the PlayStore first, instead of checking with your website, as it should.
This is all for the serious features worthy of development. Below this figure more personal wishes.
*
EBOOK PORTS FOR KINDLE (and NOOK?) : Is there any chance that this could happen in the distant future?
ADDITIONAL COLOR OPTIONS : I’d also ask for more color options for background color, like beige, blue-grey and forest green.