Would it be possible, or are there plans, to develop an application that would allow players to use their tablets as programmable control inputs? This way players can input commands like what is shown in a lot of the cockpits.asked by Mateor720

Ah yes, this is that idea that you could have like your... what is it Microsoft call it? The "second screen experience" or something?

Right.

Yeah. So you could have your iPad there, loaded in, and it knows you're in a Constellation. So, there is definitely a plan to do a companion app.

It was one of the stretch goals.

Exactly, yeah. What the extent of that is, and whether it goes as far as to have awareness of what you're piloting at the time in the game, and be hooked into that level, maybe. So yes, would it be possible? Absolutely possible - anything's possible with enough time and engineering. Are there plans? Well, we think it'd be cool...

It's a goal.

Yeah. It wouldn't be the immediate-... uhh... I don't think we need it tomorrow.

I think the answer is it's not being worked on right now.

It's not being worked on. Yeah.

But it's a goal we would like to- you know, it's something we would like to develop, and it's on our list of stretch goals, and it's something we'll look at.

And what details that kind of companion app would have is still kind of up in the air.

Yeah. I mean, it needs a designer to design it.

And by the time we do work on it, we don't know where tablet or mobile technology is gonna be at.

It would be super cool, have you seen the videos of some of the people that have converted their living rooms into like a Constellation bridge deck... and yeah, having those and being like [twiddles fingers on imaginary touchscreens], having your guys next to you're all- ahh man that'd be so much fun.

I actually saw someone on the forums made a companion tablet app that could actually change their equipment, and actually I believe they were inputting in-game commands to like shoot their guns while they were in Broken Moon playing against the Vanduul, I coulda swore I saw them actually using a tablet to actually enter commands.

Huh!

So, the tech is there, and...

You sure he wasn't just updating Facebook or something?

He could've been... [laughter]

Well, maybe we should rephrase the question then. Are there plans? [points at the screen] Are you guys working on it?[more laughter]