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Sunday, April 24. 2011

Unity, Epic and soon Crytek

What do these three names have in common?

CrySDK announced

Well, a free-mium game engine and set of tools. The rules are simple: get the engine for free, make whatever game(s) you want, sell it and fork over some of the money to the engine makers. That easy.
There are several reasons why this new way of reaching small developers is fortunate: Continue reading "Unity, Epic and soon Crytek" »
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Herr_Alien
in Epic, UDK, Unity, toolkits at 07:28 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Saturday, March 26. 2011

Activision's "Indie Contest" - did it fizzle?

It sure looks like it. According to the submission form, the contest period ends on August 31, 2010, and according to the rules, the winner would be contacted on (or around) 15th of October 2010.
We're now on March 2011. Any news on the winner? Any news on the contest itself? I am asking because for some reason, a google search only returns results from the April 2010 to June 2010 time frame. Nothing after that.
Posted by
Herr_Alien
in Activision at 07:46 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Friday, November 26. 2010

My bet regarding OnLive

I'm not going to lay it out flat on you. Instead, let's do a SWOT analysis on it. If you're not familiar with this (and haven't clicked on this link), SWOT is short for:
  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • Opportunities
  • Threats

So, on with the analysis: Continue reading "My bet regarding OnLive" »
Posted by
Herr_Alien
in DRM at 15:11 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, July 20. 2010

Alien Swarm's SDK - a weak response to UDK

Oh my, first this article, and now this new one. One could say that I am holding a grudge against Valve.

In the article I mentioned before, I was complaining that Valve had no reaction to both Unity and UDK taking by storm the indie development market. Then, I was thrilled to read the following article:

Alien Swarm SDK article on moddb

Apparently, Valve is finally giving an answer to Epic's UDK.

Unfortunately, the answer is weak. Read ahead to find out why. Continue reading "Alien Swarm's SDK - a weak response to UDK" »
Posted by
Herr_Alien
in Epic, Source at 21:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, June 22. 2010

What's a "Pro" feature?

We've all been exposed to market segmentation. You own, by any chance, a PC? Then you probably know that there are two kinds of Windows XP, a Home Edition one and a Professional Edition. Or that there are several kinds of Vista's, or several kinds of Windows 7.

That's market segmentation.

I can hear the Apple fan boys chuckle. Don't worry, Apple has something similar in its stores: several kinds of iPods, and each of this kind coming in various storage space flavors. To a good extent, that's market segmentation as well.

"So what is it to you?", you might wonder. Well, Unity does market segmentation, but in a not-so-fortunate way, looking more and more like a "bait-and-switch" move instead. Let me explain some more:

Continue reading "What's a "Pro" feature?" »
Posted by
Herr_Alien
in Unity at 16:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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