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Re: Tower 57 Kickstarter - AOS and MorphOS confirmed
« on: August 22, 2015, 02:53:19 PM »
You would in any case have to write it in ASM. This means a complete rewrite of all C++ code. Just that would be a very time consuming task and thus very costly, either monetary or the free time by unpaid programmers.

One reason the Amiga died as a commercial computer was piracy. The guys behind Pinball Illussions said it would be their last game because 75.000 expected sells would just break even. Everybody loved that game, but most gamers didn't pay for it.

Remember, the game came on a few disks but still needed to sell 75.000 copies to just break even. That says a lot about the amount of work going into game development, especially when programming in ASM. Today we have a lot of helpful tools that makes ports to different platforms easier and also gives programmers a lot of shortcuts. But not with ASM. It's as daunting as ever.

Do not underestimate the workload for such a project.
 

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Re: Tower 57 Kickstarter - AOS and MorphOS confirmed
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2015, 09:44:21 AM »
We are 11.000 short of an Amiga port and one week to go. I hope some of you can help spread the word so we can make this happen :)

Also, in case you havn't heard, an AROS port is also confirmed. All NG platforms are now supported :D
 

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Re: Tower 57 Kickstarter - AOS and MorphOS confirmed
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2015, 11:59:42 AM »
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Will certainly be buying if this happens!


It won't unless more people donate. The digital copy of the game is 12€. It's not much but it will help this project and the NG platform. It would be really cool if we got a reputation that we're a generous bunch of people. That could lead to more games being made or ported. Not all projects deserves to become a reality of course, but some will and that is a lot better than zero.
 

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Re: Tower 57 Kickstarter - AOS and MorphOS confirmed
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2015, 11:11:17 PM »
If they look like they will reach the 45000 goal, you will be able to pledge through Paypal too. It's good to know for you who for one reason or another don't want to use Kickstarter.
 

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Re: Tower 57 Kickstarter - AOS and MorphOS confirmed
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2015, 07:27:32 PM »
According to this, an NG port will happen even if we don't reach 46000 euro:

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7032&start=60

We passed 40000 euro today. Less than 5000 to go!
 

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Re: Tower 57 Kickstarter - AOS and MorphOS confirmed
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2015, 12:13:15 AM »
The last 2 days have been amazing!
 

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Re: Tower 57 Kickstarter - AOS and MorphOS confirmed
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2015, 07:35:12 PM »
On a 400 MHz G3 Efika with 128 MB RAM? Really?