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View Poll Results: Would you pay for a brand new AAA Amiga game | |||
YES! But Iv only got an Amiga 500 | 20 | 20.62% | |
YES! But iv only got an Amiga 1200 | 66 | 68.04% | |
NO! Amiga Games suck | 3 | 3.09% | |
NO! It should be free | 17 | 17.53% | |
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23 May 2013, 22:45 | #61 |
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I would be interested in the following questions being answered -
What price will be charged for the game? What hardware will the game work on? What will the price include (disk? box? manual? or digital copy only?) How long before the game would be ready to buy? How long before a video / screenshots would be available to see? The first 3 would help with answering the original poll question. |
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I support every effort to make new software for our platform and it is totally ok to expect money for years of hard work. I will support it. It would be nice if you could give more informations (screenshots, youtube-video, demo-level...). And of course test it on AROS 68k :-). @all People that want to revive the platform have to support the programmers that really do something. If people do not want to spend any money and reward people for their hard work will make the platform to pure retro where we can discuss about what Commodore did wrong and play some ports. If we want more than that (and users were partly responsible too by not buying software) then we have to support the developers. |
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24 May 2013, 00:44 | #67 |
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You say 'much higher numbers'. Care to elaborate on how much you think would pay for a game?
Edit: Maybe you should check http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=39996 and also have a look at 'Active Members: 1,596' |
24 May 2013, 00:49 | #68 |
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I would happily pay money for an Amiga game of sufficient quality, but I think it unlikely any could really happen. Definition of triple AAA given earlier in thread of big box, manual, nice intro, good music, effects, gameplay, great graphics/presentation is surely too much to expect from someone doing it in their spare time. Family life, day jobs, other interests all get in the way. Seeing a projetc through to completion is very hard in these parameters.
However, I think there are games already released in the past couple of years for free of sufficient quality for at least a budget £10 or so price tag (maybe more?) - bean bag, sqrxz, for example. Stuff like Downfall is very good quality shareware, maybe even worth a budget 5 - 10 quid price range? Offer me a nice calendar cassette case with inlay, floppy disk with a nice label stuk on (if the game fits on a floppy that is haha) and I'd happily pay some money to get my hands on it. I have such hard copies of my own games I've developed for SAM and Amiga on my shelf, they could do with some company. I'm rambling but AAA game isn't a realistic target in my opinion, but decent budget quality is. Do it for the love the platform, yes, but for the cost of a few pints why not take a punt? People have put their blood sweat and tears into it afterall. There seems to be a thriving (relatively) market on other platforms c64/speccy etc, so why not Amiga. |
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My bad: I was defending the principle that, as you says in the paragraph after that, work, while may be offered for free, is not free per se, and therefore even if the talk is about developing a game for an old Amiga, it should not be "expected" for free, and I'm saying that as one who has helped with a few language translations of Amiga games here on this board and offered to do art for free for modding Amiga games I liked. The very condivisible question you ask, though, is for mikrucio, not for me, because I don't have anything to do with the game he may do or has done and that is the object of this thread; my choice was to develop a game for a current platform, PC, even if our game has a retro style. Last edited by Marcuz; 24 May 2013 at 02:06. |
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24 May 2013, 02:03 | #70 |
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with a kickstarter campaign, let's face it, if the authors wanted to make an AAA turrican for 1200 with turbo board, there would be quite a lot of people meh thinks.
the main thing is the money, i'd say that i would love to see Amberworld made for A1200 for example..... i would pay a big buck for it |
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25 May 2013, 00:45 | #72 |
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It should offer something new, so no "puzzle games".
Nice car game for 040/060 or sport game? Strategy games are always nice. |
25 May 2013, 20:41 | #73 |
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If it were a quality title and not a glorified Game Maker project, and it ran on a stock or slightly upgraded 500 or 1200, sure.
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25 May 2013, 22:55 | #74 |
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i would pay for new games on real amiga hardware and it was 68k and not ppc.
its not like its impossible.besides it would depend on what sort of game it was. |
26 May 2013, 00:19 | #75 |
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The C64 still has commercial releases so it must at least be possible.
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26 May 2013, 00:29 | #76 |
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Making a comercial game for 68k Amigas, it should be so system friendly that it would run with all possible platforms, including AOS4/MOS
Something like this http://aminet.net/package/game/jump/boulderfull |
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thanks.
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26 May 2013, 20:14 | #78 |
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Developing on retro hardware in return for sales? Hmmm... interesting concept. I doubt it'd be a winner though!
The fact is, games that are available on Droid and iOS are barely that much better or more technically advanced than some Amiga titles. In some cases, far far less! If you're after money, develop for iOS (everyone pirates on Droid!). It's hard to jump through Apple's insane hoops, but at least if your product sells, you see cash money for it Droid, although I prefer the OS on the whole, is a loser if you want sales. I only mention these as it's easier for a single person to develop for these platforms. Though there are a lot of low-budget PC titles around these days. If I'm paying for a game, I want awesome graphics, enthralling gameplay and sounds which make my KRK Rokits sonic boom me! That's scarce on the PC these days, all we get is rubbish console ports. But when it does come along, I'm happy to pay for it! So, to me, the concept of paying anything more than a fiver for an Amiga game this day in age is a little out there... |
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I would pay for a decent AA title that would come in a oversized box and on disks, the price wouldn't be for the time the game took as that should be done for the love of programming and the Amiga, but to cover the production of the box, manual, disks etc and obviously a little for themselves, it's never gonna make anyone any money but surely no retro games do.....other platforms have them, it's strange with the amount of followers the Amiga isn't one of them.
How long since the last A500 boxed game? 1999, 2000? I'm not sure exactly but it's a long time. I would pay for any new game that's decent enough, even unreleased games that have been given the go ahead to release and made box etc for. Heck I'd pay for Putty Squad in a box and on disks to experience a new disk game for over a decade or more! |
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