Hero Labs tablet support report..

(from Hero Labs website)

Tablet Support


As you know from our previous postings, we had hoped to make significant progress on creating products for tablets by this point. Unfortunately, our development work on the Mac versions took much longer than we expected, which stymied our plans in 2011. Tablet versions of our products are still an important part of our product roadmap, and we expect to get fully underway this year.

After the release of Army Builder for the Mac, we’ll be working on the first of our tablet projects. Our first tablet product will be a version of Hero Lab designed for use during play as an electronic character sheet. From there, we'll expand into more complete versions of our products. Our target is to have an early version by Gen Con 2012 that we can show off.

As we’ve shared in the past, our strategy for the tablet market is to pick one platform for the initial releases. Since each platform has profound differences from the others when it comes to software development, major portions of the code written for one platform will need to be completely rewritten for the other platforms. This limitation is the primary reason we’ll be starting with one platform and then addressing others. We simply don’t have the resources to address all the platforms at the same time.

We're closely monitoring the market to see what's being released and how well each new product is received, and we have not yet chosen which platform we'll embrace first. We expect to make our choice in the upcoming months. Once we make our initial selection, we'll be sure to let everyone know, so stay tuned for future announcements and feel free to lobby for your favorite platform on our support forums.