Spellbound Entertainment and e.p.i.c. interactive to enter license agreement

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Kehl/ Tübingen 16.8.2004

Spellbound Entertainment and e.p.i.c. interactive to enter license agreement.


Spellbound Entertainment AG and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh have reached a comprehensive license agreement, that will bring many of the popular Spellbound games to other systems like the Apple Macintosh and Linux a.o.. The first title to be ported will be Strategy game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", which will initially be released for Apple Macintosh and Linux. Versions for other systems are planned. Further Spellbound titles are to follow soon.

"We are very proud to have the chance to cooperate with one of Germanys longest standing developing companies. Finally great Spellbound titles, who all have gathered a large and loyal following, will become available to gamers on other computer systems." said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. interactive, about the deal.

Armin Gessert, CEO of Spellbound, added:"In e.p.i.c. we have found a competent partner and we are happy that the long neglected users of systems such as Macintosh and Linux will soon be able to play our games too."

More information about "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" will be available on our website soon.

[SamuraiCrow]

If the contract is only for Mac and Linux then what does that do to help Amiga?  Will the contract support PowerPC Linux too?  Methinks this is an off-topic post.

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I see now it says systems SUCH AS Linux and Macintosh.

[KennyR]

Epic also do MorphOS versions, and have done AmigaOS ones in the past and may be convinced to do one that can work on both.

[Warface]

Versions for other systems are planned.

That's the key part I presume :-)

[lempkee]

warface:i doubt they ever will grace amiga with another game, morphos...maybe...  

remeber that divine divinty and northland was "planned" for a release last year right after the benelux show.

sure delays are acceptable but it seems more like "IGNORING" to me...

ohwell... lets see if epic wanna spend some money on mos or amiga (or both) once again, i really hope they will but i doubt it so much that it hurts .....

[redrumloa]

@lempkee

I would be completely stunned to see a major game conversion at this point in the game. Such a game would probably sell ~20 pieces at most:-(

[KennyR]

Well...sales from the Linux platform are still liable to be just as small.

[reflect]

I disagree and think that any major title on the amiga today would still sell hundreds of copies. iirc the last three major game conversions sold quite ok for such a small platform, and I think 'quite ok' here means over 1000 copies sold.

[Warface]

I would be completely stunned to see a major game conversion at this point in the game. Such a game would probably sell ~20 pieces at most

One of my friends is out there abroad, and will visit E.P.I.C. to purchase a few titles. Hope there is a "built in" counter for the games, and when it hits the invisible line called "PROFIT", more games will appear. :-)

[lempkee]

reflect:knights and merchants havent sold even 10% of what u said and thats the last commercial game on morphos (no amiga version) ..

Crossfire 2 sold crappy too , i hope it has sold more now since i last checked.

only game i know of that sold decent was "quake 2" and there is still many people out there who wont buy it because its a "HYPERION" game...

oh well..enough ranting from me...

pps: i will buy the new games as always but me alone cant make a market so i advice everyone to wake up and startn buying games if any appears + support games like Knights and merchants (if ure a mos owner) , crossfire 2 , quake 2 , tales of tamar , sofwtare tycoon , feeble files and so on..

we wont get anywhere unless we start supporting the market.

[lempkee]

red:well i wouldnt but im with you on your statement as i dont see anyone buying games atm , this is one of the major reasons why developers wont release anything atm , taking sides wont help either (just look at K&M) ..

good luck to all and i hope the market picks up the speed as there is certainly enough great games on amiga/peg and to get more..well SUPPORT!

cheers

[Paul_Gadd]

The games are not selling well because quite simply they are not popular types of games.

so i advice everyone to wake up and startn buying games

People (unlike you) will buy games if they like them, you seriously can not expect people to buy games merely just to support developers.

we wont get anywhere unless we start supporting the market

The market should suppport the users, not the other way around.

[KennyR]

lempkee wrote:
only game i know of that sold decent was "quake 2" and there is still many people out there who wont buy it because its a "HYPERION" game...

...but mostly because you can get the PC version for a fraction of the price with the datafiles and compile your own exe from the GPL source.

[lempkee]

kennyr:
sure, its good to be able to make your own port but if thats how everyone wants it then ok...

anyway i bought some pc games too , monkey island 3 , the dig etc but only so i could play em in scummvm :-)

anyway i'd rather pay 30 ukp for quake 2 and get support etc thqan port it by myself and have to follow all that gpl {bleep}e .. :-)

cheerios

[lempkee]

paulgadd: so ure saying that Knights and merchants aint a game type the people wants? and here epic announce 3 more in the same catagory    ... ok...  hehe i guess thats a bad move then :-)