Dev Update #5 - MPQ Unity Launch Pt 2 - Amazon Kindle

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S0kun
S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 948 Critical Contributor
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The Unity version of MPQ is officially available on Amazon Kindle through R325!

This version is the same PC Steam Unity version of the game currently on R324 and we plan on making sure all version numbers are aligned once every platform has been released into the new engine.

We mentioned previously that the development window between Unity releases would be “7 business days or longer” and now that we’re in week 2, the Kindle version was obviously in the “or longer” part of that statement. This allowed us to push out several hot fixes to Steam and internal closed beta builds to continue to optimize Unity across all platforms for their eventual releases.

Now that both PC and Kindle are out in the wild, we’ll be continuing to release patches for any major issues and most importantly, start to prioritize getting the mobile versions of the game ready for a public release. The iOS and Android versions of Unity have been running parallel test versions to the public Unity builds so we’re currently evaluating their public release in the near future. Since these versions count for the majority of our players, we want to send a reminder to players to please back up your accounts to the cloud using Facebook/Google/Apple in case there are any account issues. Doing so makes it a LOT easier for our CS team to be able to help troubleshoot any unforeseen issues that may potentially pop up.

As with the initial release of Unity on Steam, the builds may not be perfectly optimized and we expect to see bugs surface in the near future, but we’re committed to making sure we’re able to fix them as soon as possible. Most importantly, we’re really looking forward to the full release of Unity on all four platforms because that now frees up our resources from working on 2 engines simultaneously which is a massive resource sink across our teams.

We’ll have another update next week so until then, please continue your experience with us on the Unity engine and we’ll continue to keep pushing out builds that make this new engine launch a little less bumpy for a more enjoyable ride.

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  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,981 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:
    As an Android player, I am SO willing to wait a bit longer for the Unity release. No need to rush anything on our behalf.

    KGB

    Seriously. Take your time.

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 576 Critical Contributor

    Is there a 'No thank you, return to sender' option?

  • IrisRyu
    IrisRyu Posts: 177 Tile Toppler

    I love that this was released at the end of the day before a holiday weekend! I’m an iPhone player that occasionally played on my Kindle, but have been locked into being a Kindle exclusive player for the past month, if not longer, due to some prior update that desynced my account on my phone. I’ve spent 30 minutes with the Kindle Unity Launch and the game won’t load. I just get two red circles that constantly cycle. I’m trying really hard to hang with MPQ, but…

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,509 Chairperson of the Boards

    I was long waiting for the engine update.
    Now I want to wait a lot longer for the engine update.

  • Chrynos1989
    Chrynos1989 Posts: 464 Mover and Shaker

    I honestly wish you guys luck, when they press that button, literally everything can happen… like that Possibility Drive from Hitchhiker to the Galaxy, just pray you aren’t the whale, or the flowerpot

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,324 Chairperson of the Boards

    To echo others on Android rollout:

  • Zalasta
    Zalasta Posts: 308 Mover and Shaker

    I honestly didn’t know that kindle was still a thing, much less that you could play games on it.

  • slidecage
    slidecage Posts: 3,610 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Zalasta said:
    I honestly didn’t know that kindle was still a thing, much less that you could play games on it.

    i thought it was mostly amazon kiddie junk games hell i probally got 15 of them in my house, every thanksgiving when the 29.99 offer hit they had to buy a new one

  • revskip
    revskip Posts: 1,115 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:
    As an Android player, I am SO willing to wait a bit longer for the Unity release. No need to rush anything on our behalf.

    KGB

    I played on both. Then was told that the Amazon problems they created when they "accidentally" released an update to amazon were fixed so updated that device which meant I got locked out of Android. Dreading this release. Wish I had just stayed on Android only.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,258 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 5 July 2025, 19:09

    Same, @Daredevil217

    The way they are doing this is almost like it’s designed to destroy players’ trust in the game.

    Like really? Roll out a new platform on the night before a long weekend?

    I had convinced myself “well, I guess it’s not this week”. Until surprise! It was.

    And it’s going as you might expect.

    Hopefully there are lots of players who aren’t (excessively) being negatively impacted on Kindle but why would you push it out on July 3 when, let’s face it, you know some would be?

  • NMANOZ1
    NMANOZ1 Posts: 161 Tile Toppler

    @Daredevil217 said:
    It is wild to think about how excited players were for this new engine. We asked about it incessantly and couldn’t wait for it to come. This was for all intents and purposes their big release over a year in the making that had so many people hanging on.

    Now, it is the exact opposite. The thing that people were excitedly anticipating is now conjuring feelings of dread. I honestly don’t know how you right this ship or get back to the customers I’m sure they have lost.

    I think most of us thought that the new engine would be released on all platforms at the same time. This would have meant that after fixing all the issues, we would start seeing new features. The engine was clearly not ready, hence the staggered launch. Now I am not expecting any new changes until September in preparation for Anniversary in October.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,258 Chairperson of the Boards

    Heck, at this rate I’ll be happy if Unity is up to the old engine’s performance by September.

  • GJB1138
    GJB1138 Posts: 15 Just Dropped In
    edited 6 July 2025, 16:45

    Has anyone updated Kindle to unity yet?

  • turbomoose
    turbomoose Posts: 824 Critical Contributor

    I’m an iPhone user and have to say I have no idea how to backup my game so any advice would be appreciated

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,324 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 6 July 2025, 18:08

    @turbomoose said:
    I’m an iPhone user and have to say I have no idea how to backup my game so any advice would be appreciated

    Go into settings and you have two options for backup - either facebook or Apple - select the one you want - it will have a tick against. I am still using Facebook - I have had to restore quite a few times and it works normally pretty smoothly (apart from when it wasn't working).

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,258 Chairperson of the Boards

    @GJB1138 said:
    Has anyone updated Kindle to unity yet?

    I am not fully sure about Kindle, but on other platforms you need to update to the newest version within like 48 hours or you can’t play the game. It’s been updated to Unity since Thursday so presumably every Kindle player is on it now.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,258 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @turbomoose said:
    I’m an iPhone user and have to say I have no idea how to backup my game so any advice would be appreciated

    Go into settings and you have two options for backup - either facebook or Apple - select the one you want - it will have a tick against. I am still using Facebook - I have had to restore quite a few times and it works normally pretty smoothly (apart from when it wasn't working).

    Note that you (@turbomoose) are 100% using a backup already if you’ve been playing for any length of time. The game would yell at you with every login to pick one if you hadn’t. The game servers do not store your info in a backup capacity. I mean maybe you are just living on the edge but I would say you have one selected already that is being used.

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