The iOS simulators are hopeless for graphics performance (and don’t respond to keyboard control as far as I’m aware), Google’s stock Android emulators take an age to launch/install builds and the Xamarin Android Player, though fast, is still pretty flaky. That means I need another platform for testing. The problem is intermittent but bad enough to make serious gameplay testing on the platform impossible – no response from their support either. Unfortunately I discovered a problem with GenyMotion in that it seems to just ‘miss’ some keyup/keydown events.

This probably seems strange given that my main target platform is PC, but GenyMotion generally runs extremely well and I don’t want to have to buy another machine just for development purposes. This week I was supposed to have started on the initial gameplay testing for Jetboard Joust but I came up against a rather nasty snag.I develop using Xamarin Studio on a Mac and had been using the GenyMotion Android emulator for my main testing platform.

Joust emulator mac