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Underground DC Developers Strike Back: Feet of Fury

Posted by timothy on from the rance-rance-revolution-shraggy dept.

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!"

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  1. Original? by Quarters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The game mechanic is from, "Dance Dance Revolution". How is this an original product?

  2. Anyone else flinch by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you saw 'goat' on the link to the publisher?

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  3. ummm.... by sinergy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There have been games like this since the days of the NES games console.
    How is this in any way original? Just because it uses OGG and was developed by "Open Source" people does not mean it is revolutionary.

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  4. Re:There's no way. by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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?"

    No, there are priorities ahead of it:

    - Dreamcasts are cheap, like in the $50 range
    - DC's don't require modding to play CDrs. Just download the ISO image, burn, and go.
    - DC has a good simple architecture, plus BSD to develop on.

    To put it another way, the DC has a much better audience than any of the other consoles out there for a game like this. People aren't going to flock to the game if you have to have + mod an XBOX or PS2.

  5. It is original! by Swiss_Cheeseman · · Score: 5, Informative

    All you slashdot flamers probably havnt even played the damn game. The focus of this game is far different to DDR. This game is based around combat, you have to beat the other player by shooting special moves their way. You have a health meter, whoever loses their health loses. Although, there are different rules you can choose from. Its obvious that pretty much NONE OF YOU HAVE PLAYED THE GAME.