Hi Dark, At this point I haven't figured out what to sell the Genesis Engine for, but I don't expect it to be anywhere near the price of the GMA Engine. Understand I am writing this engine for two primary reasons, and I think if priced right this could help the accessible market out in a large way. First, as you know i have written two games the old fassion way, by hand, and each game took over a years time to produce. I really don't want to spend years of my time putting out one game here and there, because they take too long to produce. The answer is to have a prototyping tool, Genesis 3D, which has all the necessary code in place for a high-quality 3D action game. All I need do is draw the levels, set properties on things in that level, drop the files in with the pre-built game.exe file and I have a new game. Second, I have been hanging around the blind gaming comunity, reading the mag, interacting on lists, but I have always been disappointed in the accessible games available to us as blind gamers. Sure there are some good games like Sarah, SOD, Tank Commander, that stand out and are worth the cash. However, there are far too many just point and shoot or Bop It type games which I have little to no interest in. One reason for this is most accessible game developers are self-taught programmers, have little to no formal training, and aren't really skilled programmers yet. Those that do have the skills are too busy with day to day life to really do something revolutionary or visionary. By taking the task upon myself to design a fully accessible 3D game engine and designer it makes making the games I like to play easy for even a non-programmer who wants to make games. If they can operate menus, buttons, etc and with a good game idea they should be able to use the Genesis wizards to create a completely new game in a very short amount of time.
dark wrote: > Hi tom. > > Sounds good, I especially like the idea of short cutting around the > programming and getting streight down to level design and game behaviour. > > My only concern is that lisensing fees for the engine might turn out to be > beyond the means of hobby developers who might have a more primary > career, --- eg, the sort of thing I see myself doing! > > I'm not saying I expect the engine to be free, but if it's is anything like > the same price as the gma engine for the program, then it's entirely > unlikely I'd be willing to spend money on it. Of course, I have no plans of > being a full time accessible games developer, and people who are thinking > about doing that might have different opinions. > > Beware the Grue! > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
