InkyPen CEO shares new details on bringing the app to Switch

Following its initial reveal in August, InkyPen CEO Ronan Thomas Huggard has shared some new details about the upcoming comic reader app for the Nintendo Switch in an interview with Ntower. The two sides talked about what to expect out of battery life when it’s in use, possible simultaneous release dates for new content, and how it’ll work offline.

We’ve highlighted some of the information in the excerpts below. You can read the full interview on Ntower here.

On how the battery will hold up…

You get the battery life you expect on the Nintendo Switch. We are trying to experiment to push out that as well. Of course you want the Nintendo Switch to be on for as long as possible.

On the release dates…

Simultaneous release is a separate discussion. I’d expect that these things will happen relatively soon but not as early as launch. That’s actually a logistics question as well. These are the sort of things that we can do after we launch. So we’re not going to stop. We’re going to keep on developing and there will be updates. So it’s not like a game in that sense. We can launch something and then we can actually change it in a way that you can’t change a game to make it better. And that’s sort of exciting. Especially for all the game developers it normally means that you’re stuck with a lot of crude decisions even the bad ones. And we are not.

On how it’ll work offline…

Yes, so essentially what happens, when you’re in the Comic section, it will automatically download the first stuff that you’re reading. So the last thing you’ve been reading will be shown at the top of the list. You can intuitively understand it as whatever is in my list that’s what’s being downloaded or cached. It’s not like you tag things as “offline”, you just do it by reading it. And you can move things from the queue as well.

What we want is, that if you’re reading offline, you should never have to plan. It’s more like when you read at home and then you leave and you take it with you on your Nintendo Switch, it already has all the content. So you have, you know, your eight hours of content that you need or whatever. Of course you can’t search for new stuff while you’re offline. But you can at least read all the things you’ve been interested in so far.