I've wrestled with Mobile games for years. As a player, I love the idea of playing games on my phone. But most phones games outside of flash like games (Angry Birds) weren't fun.
So I tried to make them myself.
After 5 years of trial and error my conclusion was thus. Phones are a bad platform for games. Not because they aren't capable, they are extremely capable. But because they have no proper inputs.
Games are built for the common input method. PC games have a keyboard and mouse mode. Console games are built with a controller. And mobile games need to use touch.
The problem with touch, is that it's a bad input method for all games. Very good for simple visual games, but for the rest, you are touching a textureless, featureless, tiny surface, with no tactile feedback. This means that anything more complicated than angry birds or bejeweled will be difficult to play if it doesn't play itself.
It's possible to make games for phones. But due to the design constraints, the game needs to be simple, or not time dependent. Strategy games, puzzle games, board games will work, but action games, or shooters are doomed to be worse than their competitors on non-mobile platforms.
I don't want to spill the beans on what I'm currently using since I don't want it to be patched. But I can tell you what I use to use before my current config. Since apps and devices have updated to a point I found better ones.
I use to run an old Samsung Tablet with USB C video out and one of those Amazon bargain bin tablets with HDMI.
Once this bad boy strips the HDCP any old HDMI recorder can record the signal. At a time I used the Elgato HD60, but I've moved on since due to HDR content causing it problems.
Yup, outside of legacy PC titles which will never get a re-release, a 1-2 combo shot of GOG and Steam, I don't pirate games. I even took the time to find way to backup my games so I can get legal ROMs too.
Not sure about others, but I don't distribute the content I record or backup, outside of an offsite backup. For me my biggest concern is getting a clean copy for myself, and with certain fruity tablets and a mirrored screen it's good source to record from for my needs.
I get and like HDCP. Mostly because of how easy it can be to bypass. I'd rather have a universal "we tried" standard, than an honest attempt to stop this. With today's tech and online focused DRM, HDCP could be a lot worse, and I am happy where it is right now.
Like Adobe Digital Editions or Kindle for eBook DRM.
Q: Can you still get working ones? I presume so, they come from China, and I found another from Amazon a while back when I did some crazy updates to my setup. (3 HDMI outputs, Games gets split to the TV and to another Splitter which gets intercepted by a automatic switch. This switch has the game signal, but also an HDMI override signal that goes to my laptop or Tablet. That input goes to another splitter that goes to HDMI 2 on my TV and to my HDMI Recorded. This lets me play games while recording whats on my iPad, and lets me monitor my output just in case)
Q: Would one of these work to avoid a new TV? Maybe? Not sure TBH, though for the $9-$20 I've seen these for it's worth looking up.
I presumed so, but when I hear someone asking, I think of the old caps in old 90s PSU and Motherboards that are likely to go boom. I've never heard of these surface mount caps blowing though.
No name brand, if you find one that looks like it, it'll work. Typical search terms are "hdmi splitter 1 in 2 out", any with EDI switches are busts, like the one from UGREEN.
EDIT
Also avoid any with buttons, this is a HDMI duplicator, as in 1 signal goes in, that signal get duplicated and sent out both ports. The ones with buttons switches inputs, so 1 HDMI in 1 HDMI out, the button just chooses which HDMI is being used. Great for monitors with only 1 HDMI input.
LG Optimus Chat. Android 2.3. The worst phone I still have.
Its best feature was the flip out keyboard, but it stopped working after a bit. Its processor was so slow it couldn't play Angry Birds. And by the end it was plagued by phantom inputs.
Every other day it decodes it's not a phone. But a web browser, or a music player. While I am in the middle of a text.
In plain English what that means is your app doesn't just get ads from Applovin, but also Google, AdColony, and any other advertiser they support and you have an account with.
This is a good thing since it prevents companies like AdMob from having a defacto monopoly in ads shown, and are forced to compete so devs get paid more. But its also easier to implement ads since you are not getting conflicting modules from these devs.
I dont use applovin for this as I want more control on my app ads. And I paid for it by spending weeks just getting ad platforms to build when they are imported together.
I think Unity Ads was supposed to be the same thing, but I remember it being confusing to set up and never bothered.
I've wrestled with Mobile games for years. As a player, I love the idea of playing games on my phone. But most phones games outside of flash like games (Angry Birds) weren't fun.
So I tried to make them myself.
After 5 years of trial and error my conclusion was thus. Phones are a bad platform for games. Not because they aren't capable, they are extremely capable. But because they have no proper inputs.
Games are built for the common input method. PC games have a keyboard and mouse mode. Console games are built with a controller. And mobile games need to use touch.
The problem with touch, is that it's a bad input method for all games. Very good for simple visual games, but for the rest, you are touching a textureless, featureless, tiny surface, with no tactile feedback. This means that anything more complicated than angry birds or bejeweled will be difficult to play if it doesn't play itself.
It's possible to make games for phones. But due to the design constraints, the game needs to be simple, or not time dependent. Strategy games, puzzle games, board games will work, but action games, or shooters are doomed to be worse than their competitors on non-mobile platforms.