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Checking a video it feels a lot like a flash game (that name is escaping my memories but i guess some other people may recognize it) i played years ago, not in visual but in gameplay.
While it was fun for a dozen of minutes, it was not really much after that, but i guess it was just not the kind of game i enjoy.

And looking at next week "freebie" that is not a game but a dlc for one of the hundred of "online multiplayer fornite/battleroyale/ffa"  clones, it looks like epic is running out of their Fortnite money, could it mean their strategy of giving away a great (most of the time) title every week that went on for a couple of years failed to bring them more customers ?
The kind of games that they're now giving away since a couple of months seems to indicate just that.

They're at over 200 million accounts theres only so many users to acquire would not be surprised if it slows down. By all accounts the strategy worked very well. And the Fortnite money certainly doesn't seem to be slowing, hey're easily hitting 3 million concurrent pretty regularly. Rumbleverse is Epic's own published game that doesn't have a battlepass active yet so it is not a surprise they're promoting that with some loot.

Heres a look back at what they're spending (from 2019 cause I don't have more recent numbers) but given the general price range and number of people using it it seems to work. And the company is making in the billions of dollars.

Trying to remember which standalone it was that had a very tiny install but all the maps, and a shit load of options to customize the experience. I swear I had this installed at some point and just forgot it. It doesn't seem to be any of the things mentioned here? from a first glance.

I may be misremembering it's just one of those things that is bugging me in my messed up brain

So i cant seem to figure p
Out if anyone ACTUALLY asked Tarn for the sourcecode. It seems like most poeple just assumed that the source code is gone, or that Tarn doesnt want to share it.
I have yet to See a comment going "I asked, he said no", so I might just write him a VERY brief e-mail (to not annoy him to much with it).
If i get banned or some nonsense: worth a try.
If he gets mad at me for some reason: still worth it.

I just cant believe hed want to delete it. (I dont want to believe it!)

Since he open sourced most of his other works I think if the code still existed he would have put it out by now. A lot can happen in the over 15 years since he last touched that game so its very likely just gone. Anyone wanting to carry on in its stead would be far, far better off starting fresh in a newer engine anyway

I'm not sure how they can afford to do this game; 500k euros split between 25 people (BEFORE factoring in taxes, merch, and other expenses) is like, poverty level, especially going into 2018 - Over 2 years if their December 2018 date is to be believed.

On a more positive side, they have made it really clear what would be in the 500k version which I appreciate.  For instance, there's no ship to ship combat and only one ground explorable planet as far as i can tell.

This is a fun one: Was logging into Star Citizen just to get a peek at how things are. Flew around a little and then noticed after I landed that a smaller ship was shooting a pretty big one next to the station. Walked over to get closer and see what was going on.

The big ship was kinda floating freely close to the station and seemed not to be operating for whatever reason. So I wondered: could I just jump off the station pad and land on the roof. The shields were down and I nailed it pretty cleanly and began snooping around the unfamiliar ship to see if I could get inside of it or something. Then I got blasted by the little ship and tumbled off into space.

So uh, looks like there is another legal battle in the future of NMS

Sounds from my understanding like that wouldn't hold up at all. Can't patent a formula by itself.

Quote from: Sirus on May 10, 2016, 10:44:38 pm

Well, if all you really have is a proof-of-concept demo then you could always put it on something like IndieDB.

On the other, hand, if this represents your final vision for the project? Publish it on Steam for maybe a dollar or two, give the full game for the price rather than use microtransactions. Or publish it for free and keep the microtransactions.

There are already idle games on Steam, so a minimalist simulator probably wouldn't raise too many eyebrows. Best be prepared to either sink or swim.

I think I'd like to polish the PC version into something that is at least passable production quality (by some vague indie standards) before publishing it.

The issue with Steam is that greenlighting is no easy thing. The cost of even applying is your local equivalent of 90€ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/219820/), and then I suspect I'll need quite a bit larger fanbase than I can conjure up to actually make it. But yeah, that would have been ideal, probably to leave it up there for a very low price, and then see if I manage to break even.

But there are some other options that are free, like itch.io for instance, those may fit me better.

There's always other options of course. Itch.io for example lets you put games up whenever you want and charge what you want and they don't even take a royalty from it unless you choose to give them a cut

something something White Wolf

this, its been a few months since they bought white wolf, and they've noted they've got huge game plans

edit: Whatever it is it appears to be by Obsidian: http://humanresources.paradoxplaza.com/ this quiz has their logo at  the end.