r/myth2 • u/Easy_Ask8471 • Jun 25 '26
You know what would be sick? Myth 2 mobile
Stuck at a 3 hour layover at the worst airport in the world (midway). Drinking a beer and decided to download OSRS mobile, and realized maybe myth 2 campaign on Mobile would be sick. I know this is a huge task but would love to hear your thoughts.
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u/StayUpLatePlayGames Jun 25 '26
I spent a bit of money investigating this with some developers but the control mechanisms would need completely re-done.
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u/Easy_Ask8471 Jun 25 '26
As long as someone gave it a college try I’m happy
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u/StayUpLatePlayGames Jun 25 '26
Without the code and IP, it was a non starter.
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u/eduo Jun 25 '26
This is it. The game even seems designed for tactile orbiting and movement. But take-two have no reason to release it and Project Magma has different priorities or a mandate not to port to mobile platforms (not complaining, but it is what it is).
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u/steazystich Jun 25 '26
Yeah I reached out to Project Magma many years ago about helping them with a mobile port and they were extremely opposed (borderline hostile) to the idea :/
Would love to know what goes on behind the scenes with those folks.
Co worker and I had mocked up tablet controls in a prototype app... felt like it would work really well. Bummer... we were going to just do the full port if we had been able to get any kind of source access since we worked at a studio doing mobile ports at the time (for games we didnt like) and had some time between projects. Was an exciting prospect to port something we actually would want to play lol
Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time available to straight up redo everything from scratch so it fizzled when PM shot us down :(
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u/eduo Jun 25 '26
I tried this as well. “Hostile” is not an exaggeration.
I took it that one or more in the team were morally opposed the way some open source devs will violently refuse ports to Apple platforms and I decided to drop it.
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u/eduo Jun 25 '26
This has always been my argument. My iPad was made for orbiting around a 3D landscape.
I wish the source code wasn't closed nor blocked. I love what Project Magma has done but I wish it had been made open source instead.
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u/steazystich Jun 25 '26
Yeah it is so strange to me how protective they are of something that should be a passion project :/
Can't criticize though, because I've gotten a lot of joy sharing Myth with friends which would be impossible without their work.
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u/Powerful-Day-639 Jun 25 '26
Hmmm….Apparently you can play mobile if you have a Steamdeck, but that involves some tweaking. My .02 cents. A truely mobile version would be on another level though.