New Amiga Games Company needs your help

[kd7ota]

Just took it.

Hope it helped.

[jj]

Just took the survey

[AmigaMance]

@Rebel-CD32
 I completed both surveys and i wish you good game production.

[Rebel-CD32]

Thanks everyone for filling in the survey. I'll be writing some follow-up surveys with more tecnical questions to find out what Amiga setups people have soon. I'll be asking questions about graphics cards, sound cards, CPUs and stuff.

The results so far have been very hlpful, they show that the majority of Amiga users understand the capabilities of the machine and the developers, although some have still requested multi-million dollar games like Medal of Honour and World of Warcraft, which, we have to be honest with ourselves, can't and won't happen (unless every PC and Mac on the planet suddenly explodes and people have no choice but to buy Amigas). But anyone is welcome to add a comment at the end of the survey, describin the type of games they want. Who knows, maybe someone out there has the time to create an online 3D world for Amiga users (although porting one of the open-source MMORPGs would probably be a better idea).

Still, so far, the most popular games are Platformers, Point & Click Adventures, and RPGs, followed by 3D Racing.

If anyone has any suggestions for follow-up questions in the next survey, please let me know. I really want to get a broad view of the Amiga gaming market, to help Amiga games developers, and in turn deliver the games people want to play.

[Rebel-CD32]

Oh yeah, and Lightscribe discs are a possibility to keep costs down, but some CD32s and other CD drives (perhaps the CDTV also) don't read burned discs to well, and they take ages to load sometimes. If a game comes out that doesn't have long loading times, it's possible we might distribute them on Lightscribe discs, but only time will tell.

I'll be looking into CD pressing and manufacturing costs.

[kd7ota]

It would be cool to see games run on 68000, but probably just better to make it on a 020 so games run alittle smoother.  CD32 isnt a bad idea at all since most cd32 games were awsome, like super stardust.

[DamageX]

If anyone has any suggestions for follow-up questions in the next survey, please let me know.

I think you should collect more info on people's hardware. At the bottom end, some may have only OCS/ECS, but probably a lot of those people have a >7MHz CPU and some fastmem at least. That's important to consider for any realtime action games that need a consistant high framerate. A little extra CPU speed  would also be needed for software sound mixing to get >4 channels.

Maybe categorize it like this:
plain A500/600/1000/2000
ECS system with accelerator (and A3000)
plain A1200
AGA system w/ accelerator (and A4000)
680x0 Amiga with RTG
PPC Amiga

Also, regarding the question of price, I think it should be noted it's all about the game. I'll pay $50 or more for an excellent game, $20 for decent game, $0 for a crap game.

[da9000]

DamageX wrote:
Also, regarding the question of price, I think it should be noted it's all about the game. I'll pay $50 or more for an excellent game, $20 for decent game, $0 for a crap game.

Yes, I stumbled too on that question for the same reason..

[Rebel-CD32]

Yeah, my next survey is going to be about everyone's hardware specifications, I'll try and get it up and running some time today.

I guess the question about price is a bit broad, it should really say "How much would you pay for a GOOD game, since I wouldn't want to release any crap ones. Still, if it's a good, yet basic game, it'll be cheaper than a good game that had more work put into it.

Any games that we make, I'd like to have as many options as possible. If it's an AGA CD game, I'd like it to run on a standrd CD32, but if you have more RAM or a faster CPU, then it should take advantage of those and add extra features to the game (more sound effects, extra parallax, more animation) and so on.

Plus I'd like to find out if it's possible to make a configuration utility that all our upcoming games can use, so you only have to set it up once, for options like RTG, AHI, USB/PSX controllers and other things. Maybe even an overscan saving preference, so you can centre the game on your screen, and every game after that that we make can use those same overscan settings. It's really annoying when one game is centred, and the net one is aligned to the left bottom corner or something, and diffeent people's displays have different alignments.

The big TV I play my CD32 on for eample, seems to be more aligned to the right, so there's a fat black bar on the left side of most games. I want to fix all this with any new games coming out. And set a lot of standards that our games have to stick to.

[utri007]

My suggestion is target your game to 040 / 060 and you should make possible to decrade graphicks so that pixels are size of dublo lego

[ianthefool]

I just took the survey and surprised myself by some of my answers. Do I really prefer to play games from multiple floppies? Maybe I just like the satisfaction of hearing the Amiga make that lovely sound when loading...

[motorollin]

I like the thought of playing games from floppies because of the nostalgia thing. But realistically I play all my games from hard disk using WHDLoad.

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moto

[Peter]

Survey taken.

I think what makes the Amiga so cool also is the look of display on those old 1084S... More accurate than TV, but smoother than modern CRT's, somewhere between the two... The time when illustrations were pixel-made! Proof of that are the "blur" or "TV look" render engines included in many emulators...

[Andeda]

Done.

[HopperJF]

motorollin wrote:
I like the thought of playing games from floppies because of the nostalgia thing.

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moto

Same here  :-D

[Rebel-CD32]

Thanks for your input, everyone. We have completed a follow-up survey about hardware specifics, which will help us determine what machines we should be developing for.

You'll find it here - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=21053586334

Thanks once again to everyone for contributing.