Can I use the OUYA without a creditcard?

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#21

I only looked at a dev unit. The pause button fiasco and poor quality of the initial SDK (and I’m skeptical about the current SDK even having never looked at it) made for a poor first impression. These are just the basics. They have the funding, they just aren’t good at what they do.

#22

Yep, can see where you’re coming from. They don’t have the experience in building consoles that other console providers do. That said, they’re definitely getting better over time.

Cheers,

Kev

#23

Thanks for this useful information, but is it possible to use the ouya with paypal/no cc or not? Also, maybe a little out of scope, I am trying to get 2 OrthographicCamera’s in my libgdx application, but no matter what size/ortho I give the camera’s they still use the whole screen, how can I fix this?

#24

You can use glViewport and the camera project/unproject methods that take viewportX, viewportY, viewportWidth, viewportHeight.

#25

glViewport works AMAZING :smiley: Exact what I wanted, thank you!

#26

I believe you have to have a CC.

Cheers,

Kev

#27

Is the Ouya account that you make on ouya.tv the same as the account you use with the ouya itself??? I was able to make an account without a creditcard at the ouya website

#28

Yes, but to link that account to the Ouya (and you can’t use it until you do) you need to enter credit/debit card details OR a “redeemable code”, which I assume means something like this. But I’m not 100% sure of that, and it may vary from country to country, so don’t take my word for it.

For what it’s worth, my experience of the ‘consumer’ hardware (I’ve not seen the earlier ‘developer’ version) is that it works just fine, although the controller feels a little cheap.

The front-end software though seems alarmingly amateurish - the storefront in particular seems like it was written by someone who has never seen an App store before (and bear in mind that I got my Ouya after the big update that apparently fixed most of the problems). Of course, future updates may fix all that, and hopefully the quality of available games will improve over time as well.

So overall I’m not sure I can recommend getting one, at least not just yet.

That all said, the one thing I really like about the Ouya is that it makes me feel like I’ve been transported back to the mid-eighties, with a ZX Spectrum plugged into the TV, and a big stack of borrowed cassettes to work through. 8)

#29

Ah, so a redeemable code is also possible, thanks, I can pay with PayPal there :stuck_out_tongue:

#30

LOL, fake credit card worked immediately :smiley:
Get my OUYA tonight, now, I have to work hard on my platformer I started this week on for my Ouya :smiley:

What are the buttons/joystick from OUYA in LibGDX? Its not touch like android ???