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Underground DC Developers Strike Back: Feet of Fury
frohike writes "After reading the recent article
about game non-originality, I'm pleased to say that there's another
entry to the Dreamcast's innovative game lineup, and this time it isn't
coming from one of the Big Publishers but the underground:
Feet of Fury! This independent music beat game includes player vs player gameplay and a Typing of Fury mode. It was developed by
us on a $0 budget using Linux, Gimp, and various other
free tools over the past few years, and it uses the BSD-licensed
KallistiOS toolkit as its base. (This
is the same toolkit which most homebrew developers have written the emulators
and such with.) We've used a number of neat free software technologies such
as Ogg Vorbis in the game itself,
and we contribute a large chunk of our code back to the community in
the hopes that others can follow in our footsteps. There is even a
publisher ready to help you
get your ideas to fruition and sell them for you, so what are you waiting
for? Now's your chance to be a console developer too. Let's make some great new innovative Dreamcast games!"
As the official Dan Potter stalker, I am obligated to respond. Congratualtions on getting /.ed finally, they kept rejecting my posts.
And everyone else, if you don't like it, don't fucking buy it. Feel free to make your own damn Dreamcast games. In fact, I encourage it. Hell, I'd buy whatever you make.
Dreamcast is a dead console
:)
i dunno, a $50 web server that you could damn near mount on your wall sounds pretty cool to me
well, it's nothing one behind the ear wouldn't cure
Dreamcast is a dead console, if I'm going to put work into developing for a console at all would I be better served to work on one that has a future?
1) Dreamcast is very easy to develop for. And the fact that there are many tools to aid in development help this.
2) Dreamcast can boot a CD-R without a modchip or some kind of circumvention device. This means anyone who owns a Dreamcast can play your game. You can reach a much greater audience with DC homebrew than you could with PS2/XBox/Gamecube homebrew. DC consoles are cheap these days. It may be a dead console, but for homebrew, it makes much more sense than any of the other current-generation consoles.
And there's just something wrong about open-source games.
What might that be? Other than they are generally not all that great.
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It appears that they're trying to sell this game. It seems like they could run into some major legal problems if Sega wants them to- doesn't Sega have to license you in order for you to create and sell games for its system?
Now that its discontinued, Sega could at least get some mindshare and a few more fans if they opened up some of their libs for it so it can truely become a legal open ended developement platform for all aspiring console coders to geek on. In this day and age its hard to earn respect in the console biz, this might help. A little.