Gorky 17 release imminent for AOS4

[eliyahu]

news via hyperion-entertainment.com:

Gorky 17 release imminent
Brussels, October 3, 2015

Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce the imminent release of the long awaited adventure/strategy/RPG crossover game Gorky 17 originally by Metropolis Software House for AmigaOS! After a long twelve years since its original announcement, the AmigaOS port of Gorky 17 became almost what was Duke Nukem Forever for the PC world. Yet, we made it in two years less

In order to ensure the highest possible quality, Hyperion Entertainment commissioned Frank Menzel and Thomas Claus, who are well known for their original games for AmigaOS 4 under the Entwickler-X label, to stabilize, optimize, enhance and last, not least, to finalize the AmigaOS port of Gorky 17. The result of their work speaks for itself and shows their high level of professionalism, which allows us now to rightfully claim that the AmigaOS port of Gorky 17 represents the best version of Gorky 17 released on any platform, ever!

Exclusive main features of the AmigaOS version:

• High resolution support by free choice of screenmode
• English, German, Spanish (text & speech) and French (text only)
• Mouse wheel support
• Highly optimized game engine and video player

Minimum requirements:

• Amiga with 500MHz CPU or faster
• 256MB of memory
• Graphics card (Warp3D compatibility recommended!)
• 700MB of free disk space
• AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition

Production is already in progress, all registered dealers got informed about the now available pre-orders and the official start of sales will be the week of October 19, 2015. Get in touch with your preferred dealer to place your personal pre-order!
 
But there is more to it! In cooporation with Alinea Computer, Hyperion Entertainment will celebrate 30 years of AmigaOS and the release of Gorky 17 by making Gorky 17's pre-release debut at the Amiga 30th anniversary event in Neuss, Germany on October 10, 2015 in form of a strictly limited-amount of early bird units sold separately for 34,95 Euro SRP as well as part of a special fair-super-bundle consisting of:

• Gorky 17 for AmigaOS
• Gorky 17 poster
• "powered by AmigaOS" t-shirt
• "30th anniversary" sticker
• "AmigaOS" notepad

... at a heavily discounted fair-price of 50,- Euro incl. VAT*) in contrary to the regular price of about 65,- Euro incl. VAT.
 
We all hope you enjoy this fantastic news as much as we do and will stop by at our booths in Neuss on October 10... cheers!

 *) German VAT currently 19%. Offer only valid directly at the fair, for the duration of the fair and as long as supply lasts. Subject to errors.

-- eliyahu

[OlafS3]

news via hyperion-entertainment.com:

-- eliyahu

just 12 years?

[Iggy]

just 12 years?

Ah yes, a Hyperion rework of a really old title.

That is encouraging.

[pixie]

A new hope awakens, first duke nukem forever now gorky next stop half life 3!

[skolman]

On the PC only need to Pentium 200MHz and 32MB of RAM.

[XDelusion]

Box art, hurray!

[amoskodare]

[Faerytale]

Will Gorky 17 move PC-gamers to the Amiga?

[Rob]

Will Gorky 17 move PC-gamers to the Amiga?

That's not the point of the release.

[mongo]

Will Gorky 17 move PC-gamers to the Amiga?

I just bought the PC version on Steam for $0.76, so probably not.

[quenthal]

On the PC only need to Pentium 200MHz and 32MB of RAM.

Nooo... I was expecting Gorky to run on CSPPC. On paper, there shouldn't be that much requirements that it wouldn't run on OS3.x&WarpOS and classic PPC.

But anyhow, I welcome this port!

I just bought the PC version on Steam for $0.76, so probably not.

There is discussion and hopefully false information on Steam about Amiga conversion being without permission:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/253920/discussions/0/520518053453566327/#p3

[Lurch]

There is discussion and hopefully false information on Steam about Amiga conversion being without permission:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/253920/discussions/0/520518053453566327/#p3

Raidor [dph]  [developer] 3 hours ago
If Hyperion wants to release any Gorky 17 title, they need to have an agreement with TopWare Interactive AG (because we own the trademark and all rights to the game title - this is easy to find out at OAMI patent office, patent runs until 2019 and will be extended to 2029). But however, we will try to talk with them. Not all disputes need to end up in a court case. Sometimes there are other solutions.

Let the games begin...


35 euro for pre order or 50 euro for main release.... or $6.00 NZD on Steam. Hmmm.

Oh "at a heavily discounted fair-price of 50,- Euro incl. VAT*) in contrary to the regular price of about 65,- Euro incl. VAT."

Heavily means 15 euros? LOL

[utri007]

There are some problems with his claims, he didn't seems to know any of other ports. Not even MacOS port already excist and there is a also a Linux port. Runesoft / Hyperion / Linux game publishing

He tries to sell wine version of this game to MacOS x users.

They (he) might or might not own Gorky 17 IP now, but he didn't seems to know anything about game history? Really weird...

[Yasu]

Is it possible that Hyperions old licence has runned out? I'm not saying it has, I'm just wondering since the deal is a decade old.

[utri007]

Is it possible that Hyperions old licence has runned out? I'm not saying it has, I'm just wondering since the deal is a decade old.

They said that Sin license is expired.