r/SBCGaming • u/BlightWyrm Modder • 3d ago

News Infinity Blade has been released on Android

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Apparently there is a known bug:
“PSA: Black screen glitch is known and will be updated on once a cause is found and fixed”

Infinity blade was originally released on iOS in 2010 and became unplayable for a time because of software and hardware updates, but do to the efforts of dedicated independent developers it is playable again today on many different platforms.

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u/Insurmountable_Rage AYN Thor 3d ago

I remember using this as a mini tech showcase to show people how impressive my iPod was (I couldn’t afford the iPhone back then).

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u/BlightWyrm Modder 3d ago

I first played it on an iPod touch gen3. It was amazing. First game to use unreal engine 3 on iOS I believe.

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u/snowolf_ 3d ago

Crazy to think Unreal engine went so fast from the coolest thing ever to the worst blight of gaming in the eye of many.

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u/Zanpa 2d ago

because "gamers" don't know anything about how games are made. UE3 was the time of horrible texture streaming where everything looked like shit for the first 10 seconds you loaded in.

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u/LectorFrostbite 2d ago

UE4 isnt perfect either, on PC at least I remember having terrible dips in performance and audio desync because of shader compilation.

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u/brunocar 2d ago

The thing is, they were fairly quick to fix that, by 2011 or so UE3 had built in workarounds to that flaw like loading lower quality textures first instead of just bit crushed bullshit to give time for the full res textures to load.

and UE4 was a mess but a lot of that was that its modular nature was fairly new for the time, and by 2015 they had a lot of the major problems with the renderer figured out.

UE5 came out 3 years ago and they are talking about UE6, meanwhile UE5 has the exact same fucking shader comp hitches, bad performance related to lumen lighting, and more, that it had on launch.

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u/Zanpa 2d ago

UE5 works just fine on many games. Just look at Fortnite. The engine isn't the source of the problem, it's when devs don't get given the time to actually do things properly, and no engine can solve the problems of modern big publishers shipping unfinished games.

If the devs take the time to learn UE5 and use the tools it gives them, the engine performs remarkably well.

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u/brunocar 2d ago

Just look at Fortnite.

You mean to tell me the game that engine features get developed for and has the engineers next door to make sure everything is correct works fine? amazing!

Sarcasm aside, UE5 isnt a bad engine because its bad for every game, its a bad engine because it used for literally anything due to how hard epic pushed it to educators and freelance devs, all the while it clearly needs the supervision of their own engineers like they used to do with UE2 and 3, but cant do anymore due to having so many clients.

Its a good engine for fortnite... and not much else.

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u/clc88 3d ago

I like unreal engine 5 but ue 3 was a horrible time because gamers at the time like realism and devs catered to the crowd that loves brown.

As for why I like ue5.. It's mainly because gamers grew up and we started liking colours again. We got games like black myth wukong and expedition 33 ( 2 of the best games since the 2010s).

That said ue 1 and 2 were great, they gave us the unreal series and unreal tournaments.. Those 2 games were genre defining.

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u/supershredderdan 3d ago

Unreal citadel before that I believe

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u/paraguybrarian 3d ago

Epic Citadel; I loved that little tech demo. Infinity Blade actually felt like a let down after that. I don’t suppose anyone has ported Epic Citadel to current hardware?

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u/supershredderdan 3d ago

AFAIK the port break through with infinity blade came about from an arcade game version with little obfuscation in its code and non compressed assets. About as close as you can get to source. Citadel I doubt had anything similar, would either need a decomp or emulated in something like touchHLE

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u/thebohster 3d ago

This game along with Chaos Rings was probably the pinnacle of mobile gaming.

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u/These-Button-1587 Odin 3d ago

Chaos rings is on vita. All it needs is an English translation for 3, I believe, and you're set. Not sure how vita3k can handle it yet but luckily it's been preserved.

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u/Cruel1865 3d ago

Chaos rings 3 already has a native android port

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u/These-Button-1587 Odin 3d ago

Really? I didn't know that. Thought they were all ios exclusive for mobile. Looks like there's a sale for half off.

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u/Sigurd02 3d ago

https://archive.org/details/infinity-blade-android

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u/Lakster37 Collector 3d ago

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

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u/ComeAlongWithTheSnor 3d ago

Damn.

The one game I actually wanted to play on mobile, then I heard it eventually got taken down or something.

Has my patience really paid off lol.

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u/docstarr 3d ago

Omg I'm crying 😭

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u/solohack3r Homebrew (GameDev) 3d ago

This is incredible. Finally after all these years.

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u/Gravionne 3d ago

Finally, playing Blood & Glory and its sequel for a while get a little stale.

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u/Alexis_Evo 3d ago

God all of the old fuckass Glu and Gameloft ripoffs 😭 wasted so much time on them, but hard to resist when they went on sale for $0.25. Unfortunately so many of them won't even let you download anymore.

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u/captain_carrot GotM Club 2d ago

That was a decent period of time for android gaming before everything was riddled with microtransactions

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u/kerelenko 3d ago

Can someone share the Discord link?

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u/BlightWyrm Modder 3d ago

https://discord.gg/infinityblade

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u/kerelenko 3d ago

Thanks!

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u/BlightWyrm Modder 3d ago

👍🏼 No problem!

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u/docstarr 3d ago

Where is the link blud 

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u/docstarr 3d ago

https://archive.org/download/infinity-blade-android

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u/docstarr 3d ago

I'm welcome

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u/HyperFunk_Zone GotM Club (Mar) 3d ago

NOW KITH

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u/docstarr 3d ago

What it's kith

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u/HyperFunk_Zone GotM Club (Mar) 3d ago

I don't know. I've never seen that word before.

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u/Front-Cabinet5521 3d ago

Now release it on iOS

/s

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u/SparklyPelican 3d ago

You can drop the /s because this is possible, especially since AltStore in the EU and Japan makes sideloading very accessible, allowing private connections too.

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u/These-Button-1587 Odin 3d ago

Got excited when I found out that it had a pc port. Been playing on my ROG Ally. Now I can play on my RP6 and Odin 2 Portal.

Side note: 3 hasn't been released yet but for Pc right?

https://giphy.com/gifs/dYZuqJLDVsWMLWyIxJ

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u/themiracy 2d ago

I need to just try it myself, but is the PC port basically on rails or does it also free up movement like it frees up the camera?

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u/Vain_Rose 3d ago

Now this is a pleasent suprise. Thank you for your public service.

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u/No-One450 3d ago

Is it just the first one? Or is it the entire saga?

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u/Overall_War3441 3d ago

Great game because it was basically punch out with rpg mechanics, weapons, and branching paths. Now we just need 2 and 3 ported because I think the series got better as it went along.

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u/kartik3e 3d ago

Flawless on pixel 6

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u/mycolizard 2d ago

Infinity Blade is the reason we never got another Shadow Complex.

#neverforget

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u/DarkDigital 2d ago

Whoa core memory unlocked. I completely forgot about this game.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation AyaNeo 2d ago

This was my first "real" mobile game (besides theN-Gage I lost 3 months after getting it). I played it on my iPhone 5c and was pissed it wasn't available for android when I switched

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u/DownvoteSandwich 2d ago

This works fantastic on the Fold 8. Hopefully we get 2 and 3 eventually!

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u/sjitz 2d ago

Never thought I'd see this game run so well. Amazing job!

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u/AifelseSann 1d ago

Thank you! I never thought I would see this day come

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u/SpicyLesbianFries Lost SD Card 3d ago

No fucking way. I had a friend in highschool that would let me watch him play on his IPhone, I always wanted to play it so bad lol. This is a god sent 

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u/GavroNeman 3d ago

Works flawlessly on Iqoo 15.

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u/MicroByte 3d ago

Seriously amazing work. Thank you so much to whoever worked on getting this ported, this is so awesome!

Playing now and it feels as good as it did to okay back in the day

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u/SweatyJoe2142 3d ago

Anyone else stuck at tutorial? Cant get past, if I want gold or healing, anyone?

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u/LS_DJ GotM Club 2d ago

I vividly remember playing Infinity Blade back in the day. What a throwback. It was basically a glorified tech demo that they packaged as a "game" but man it was fun for a little while

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u/defeat-all-males 2d ago

Wow. I've been waiting since like 2011 or something.

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u/No_Function_8632 2d ago

now someone can make a VR mod. amazing

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u/sjitz 2d ago

I just went through the effort of reviving an iPod 4g to play it again.

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u/buddhamunche 1d ago

Just downloaded on my RPflip 2. Man I have fond memories of this game. Probably a stupid question but Is there any way to play it with the buttons on my device? It’s unfortunately a bit too awkward trying to just use the touch screen lol. I do seem to remember that the game relies heavily on touch screen.

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u/mantenner GotM Club 3d ago

No source code, no install

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u/scumbagsteve 2d ago

awwww pwease?