For years we've wanted to make an online store like this but focused on games, kind of like Steam or XBox Live, and we want to call it Underground Arcade. It would host free and commercial games, updates, graphical information about the games with screenshots (Aminet STILL doesn't have screenshots), and would be free to use for hosting your games, free to use to browse, you would only ever pay for the registered and commercial games, demos and freeware games would be free. Commercial games would have the option for a cheap download, or a full price boxed version which would be mailed to you, and in the mean time the full version would be available to download for you while you wait for the physical package.
It's just a dream though, I don't know ANYONE who would want to help set something like this up, I've been bugging people on Amiga forums for years about it (before the App Store became popular). I'm sure if we have a place like this, we will see more Amiga game releases. For example, the authors of Babylonian Twins have been trying to work out a way to digitally distribute their A500 game for ages but nothing exists for them to use. If Underground Arcade was up and running, we could host it there. We also want to have a game developer forum there for anyone interested in making new Amiga games to join in, learn and produce something with a supportive team, instead of trying to go about it alone. Underground Arcade would be for all Amiga flavours, not just OS4 like OS4Depot and AmiBoing.
The problem is I can't set all of this up at the same time as continuing on the massive load of other Amiga projects I'm working on, including a really good game which I hope to distribute from the Underground Arcade site some day.
