The Banner Saga will be given a release on tablets and consoles, Stoic Games has revealed.

The acclaimed role-playing strategy game - which was created by former BioWare developers and released on PC earlier this year - will be available on iPad and Android tablets this summer.

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"I think it's very well suited [for a tablet]," programmer John Watson told Digital Spy.

"It's almost the same. A player can play the whole PC game with nothing but a mouse and the left button. The whole game is made that way."

Stoic has been working on the iOS and Android editions since the game released on PC in January.

Watson explained how the title was originally pitched as a tablet game, with iPad and Android kept in mind while developing the PC release, from the user interface to Retina display-compatible assets.

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"We wanted to make a tablet game from the beginning, but we felt the main audience for this tactics role-playing game was definitely on Steam, whereas iPad was a little more of a question mark," Watson said.

Artist Arnie Jorgensen added: "When we first started the company, we got to it because I bought an iPad and I played Sword & Sworcery, and that's when I was at BioWare, and I thought, 'I want to do that'.

"That was the whole motivation to start this thing. Right from the get go, we were designing everything to do with this."

Meanwhile, Watson hopes console versions will make their debut before the end of the year, with plans to release on PlayStation Vita later.

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"The ideal would be to get some console ports out before the end of the year. Whether we can make that happen or not, I don't know," Watson explained.

"Some things are easier than others. I think the game would be great on Vita, but I think that would come after other consoles. It's a path of least resistance thing; there's three of us.

"We tried to hire people to help us - contract external outfits for things like porting - [but] I'm doing all the iPad porting myself."

He added: "For Vita, I'd much rather see it on PlayStation 4 first, then work on the Vita. The Vita might need some changes to take advantage of the fact that it's both control and touch at the same time."

Stoic also announced that it has localised the PC version into French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Earlier this year, Stoic had a trademark dispute with Candy Crush developer King over the Saga name, which was later settled.

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