Download it on your Windows Phone, Tablet, or PC -- the game was released to all Windows devices yesterday: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/sonic-dash/0ca3b3f5-8bde-4f11-baab-8350ba103864
I have Windows 8 installed on my Notebook (came with Windows 7 originally). It works perfectly; despite the store saying that the game needs a touch screen and will not work with a mouse or keyboard, it works just fine. The game seems to display at my resolution (that would be 1366x768), so it probably adapts it based on the screen. It also runs surprisingly well, btw. My notebook is from ~2010 with an integrated Intel mobile 4 chipset. I was not expecting it to run AT ALL.
I always wanted to play a wallet draining endless runner on my PC made to look like its from 2000 Of all the things to port to PC... this? Really? Usually you'd think we'd get mobile ports of console material, like getting SA1 remastered for iOS or even 3DS if possible, albeit with diced down graphics. But this is... temple run with in app purchases thrown at your face, a game you don't often see on PC outside of Zynga's shit. On the one hand, yay we're getting another PC Sonic game, but... What?
Can those Dash character models be ported over to Generations? it'd be cool if we can asset pull some of this stuff from Dash to use for our needs. also is Sonic The Hedgedroid in this port? EDIT: You have allot of free time huh Gerbilsoft?
I'm so happy right now, you guys have no idea. It was fun on my phone but touch screen controls will never not be garbage.
This is incorrect. The game is available on all PCs, tablets and phones with access to the Windows Store. This is not limited to Windows 8.1; as a Windows 10 user I can verify that it runs with excellence on my Windows 10 Surface Pro device. The resolution, for me, is 1080p. Moreover, it is programmed to run on all upcoming versions of Windows, including Windows 10 phone, and soon Xbox One since to Microsoft's "Universal Windows Apps" strategy. All of these products will soon run a single OS simply called "Windows".
Besides what Covarr said, this is part of Microsoft's Big Lie. Their claim is that you can write an "app" once, and it automatically runs everywhere. In reality, the "universal app" is merely multiple builds of the same app for different platforms duct-taped into a giant "appx" container. You'll need to build and test each version separately. Microsoft does not and has never properly supported true cross-platform development. (HTML5 doesn't count; anything written in HTML5 is a webpage, not a program.) The "single OS" strategy also means that the OS will end up wasting 16GB+ of space even on restricted platforms like Windows Phone and Xbone, since they still need the Win32 libraries even though nothing will use them. (See Windows RT tablets, which have a full Win32 subsystem even though you're not allowed to run any Win32 programs other than MS Office.)
I disagree. Considering they're making large portions of the .NET framework open source, and considering Visual Studio is about to support iOS and Android, I would say that they are push for cross-platform support. And that makes sense too, because Windows may be dominant on PCs, but it has a long ways to go on other devices. So, in fact they have shifted their strategy in this regard.
I don't mean cross-platform in the sense that "you can write programs for any platform". I mean in the sense that you can have a project with a common framework and platform-specific components on top of that. (.NET doesn't count; while they are open-sourcing the core platform, Windows Forms is still proprietary, and Mono doesn't cut it.) As far as I know, Visual Studio doesn't let you do that. You have to make completely separate projects for each platform. (This means entirely separate platforms, not just CPUs; 32-bit vs 64-bit Windows doesn't require separate projects, but desktop Windows vs. Metro vs. Mac vs. Linux etc does.)
Playing Sonic Dash with keyboard controls is really weird, but at least it runs really well on PC I guess? That's cool.
I played it for the first time ever today (I don't have non-Windows machines). I must say, I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed it. It doesn't seem like a throw-away app at all to me, unlike most other apps of the "endless runner" nature. I was also surprised how well it ran on my first-generation Surface RT tablet considering it doesn't have the greatest processing power in the world. My only complain is the menus and other stuff that pops up on the screen is a little confusing to look at, at first. Other than that, I think Sega did a great job with this.
My main problem with Sonic Dash is that it gets really dull after the first 3-4 runs, I suppose extra characters and stuff spice it up, but it takes so long time to gather the red rings for them unless you want to pay through microtransactions, which I'm not really too fond of doing when I'm on a tight budget. But it's not bad at all, just a bit boring.
This thing runs pretty awesome! I've played it on my iPhone 4s, I like how there's an added sea floor. Draw distance is farther, the whole thing is just smooth. I really do like this though, it's fun to kill time.
