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Re: Cinemaware launches Kickstarter for Wings: Directors Cut
« on: August 11, 2012, 06:09:15 PM »
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Well... Isn't it kinda cheeky to post at amigans forum and ask for a support for iOS/Android/PC version of your game?.
No, it's not..

It's unrealistic to expect that from a company trying to establish itself.
Lots of us here on this Amigans forum also like iOS or Android or PC...

It is definitely cheeky to ask a company who's doing a Kickstarter campaign to get started to do a port to a system with a miniscule user base..  ;-)

Not that it's not good to ask..
There might be a dev or 2 on the actual dev team who is an Amiga fan and might do that for fun...  
I think that's how some of the early Linux ports of commercial games happened.

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Re: Cinemaware launches Kickstarter for Wings: Directors Cut
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2012, 06:53:20 PM »
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...they should announce support for any of the NG platforms otherwise I doubt they will create much interest.

Because the other retro re-dos on Kickstarter have failed so badly by not doing that???

Really???

If you (anyone) are an Amiga developer and you are capable, you should e-mail them and tell you you would be willing to actually do the port, showing them some examples to let them know you can do that..

Let them know how much it will cost them..
Then they can figure it into their funding model and see if it's feasible...

Remember, they are not developers.  They are going to be contracting with developers, and I'm willing to be those current developers they have chosen probably aren't familiar with AmigaNG dev....

I get a bit mad a people who talk about Amiga fans being unrealistic.  I think we are realistic, just also fans..
But then I hear people actually thinking that a new publisher would consider the tiny market for an initial release and wonder....

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Re: Cinemaware launches Kickstarter for Wings: Directors Cut
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2012, 07:19:20 PM »
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Now be realistic too... contracting developers works only with money and they obviously do not have the money.
That's not the way Kickstarter works..
At least not for the people who aren't doing their own development (Cinemaware is a lot like the Leisure Suit Larry guys in this area)

They are contracting with the developers with lots of money (depending on your definition of "lots")..  Assuming the Kickstarter campaign is successful...

It's not that different from the current system.
They are getting money from "their investors" and the contracts will be pending funding.
Just in this case, the "investors" are the Kickstarter members and not a big software company or Bank..

That's the whole point of Kickstarter, and why they have to aim at the group to be most likely to fund them...  That's not going to be AmigaNG people..

Now, with the DoubleFine or the BannerSaga guys, it's different as they are developing the game themselves..  Or at least partially (they did have to hire contractors for some things and those contracts were also pending funding from Kickstarter..).

What you might want to do is contact some AmigaNG developers and ask them what it would cost to "port" a game.  
Then go to the property holder and ask them how much it would cost to license the game for that port.
Then you can start a kickstarter campaign yourself to do the port....

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Re: Cinemaware launches Kickstarter for Wings: Directors Cut
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2012, 08:53:36 PM »
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If that's the case then what the heck they're doing posting on Amiga.org forum?
Because I think they figured that a lot of us Amiga fans also have iOS, Android and PCs, and yet still remember Cinemaware fondly...

(Didn't I cover this already?)
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Lots of us here on this Amigans forum also like iOS or Android or PC...

Yes, I did..  :crazy:  :o  :)

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Re: Cinemaware launches Kickstarter for Wings: Directors Cut
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2012, 09:20:03 PM »
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You just gave an excuse to Microsoft (and probably a dozen of other software companies) to spam Amiga.org with their commercials. Good job :crazy:
So they were waiting for me???

Wow..
I'm better than I thought!!!

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