As the robots attempt to bring the ruby back to Doctor Robotnik, Sonic, Tails, and their pal Knuckles give chase. By the time the pair reach Angel Island, the robots have already discovered the source of the energy, a crystal of immense power known as the Phantom Ruby. On the way, their trip is delayed by Doctor Robotnik's evil horde of robots, who attempt to stop their arrival. One day, Sonic and Tails hop on their plane to investigate a curious energy reading from the nearby Angel Island. Debunking reasons not to open source indie freewar.Like in the early Genesis games, the story in Sonic Mania is straightforward and appropriately retro in nature.A simple, well executed idea will get you enough visitors to make a decent steady income from a game - and if you keep churning out good games, you'll be able to make a lot of money without ever charging your players.
For example, the Desktop Tower Defense game is very simple and free to play but the guy pulls in a high 9-figure revenue (after costs, I believe) from Google adsense and merchandising alone (up to 20 million hits a month). I don't think it's necessary if you are creating quality of innovative content.
I really don't like the notion of premium content or asking for donations. Then you have adverts and merchanising and you have a steady income stream without imposing much on your players or contributors.
It's a good article with some interesting ideas, but to me I think the way to make money from Free Software games is simple produce your own games (don't be too reliant on giant community efforts), produce good quality games (original, innovative, not too complex), and you will get good steady web traffic.
Perhaps now Java is open source that might change? Who knows.įinally for today, I don't think I've yet mentioned an article on Liberty Gaming about making money from Free Software games. I don't know how Sun messed that one up so bad but I don't think it's worked more than 1 in 5 times for me on any machine I tried it on. Why is it that Java Web Start never f***ing works? Even on Windows. Well there's a bunch of prototypes to toy with, most of which come with the source code. I rambled a bit about the CuteGod challenge on LostGarden the other day. Ok, maybe dosbox doesn't work on it, but I bet it could if the developers tried - dosbox runs on everything! -) Y'know, one of those blue and grey plastic monstrosities. Dosbox required but that's ok since Dosbox works on pretty much every platform going including my mate's 11 year old waterproof Casio digital watch. It's an old school platformer and, from my youngers years, pretty good fun.
Download link plus random blurb here, announcement with other download link here. One of 3D Realms' older titles, Alien Carnage, is now available as freeware. Perhaps you - yes, YOU, you good looking son of a gun - could inspire them with a better alternative. I can't say I'm enthralled by the 4 names they are choosing from but to be honest I couldn't think of much better. However it is only available for Windows :-( but thanks to FG forum member NoMorePros for pointing it out nonetheless.īack to more definitively Free Software matters, and the PlanetPenguin Racer revival effort is ongoing - they are trying to decide on a new name for the project to disambiguate their efforts from the now-defunct PPR project.
I also couldn't establish, at a glance, whether it is open source but I'd be surprised if it wasn't. the characters, like Sonic, are owned by Sega) is on a dubious legal footing but the game has been in development for nearly 10 years now and is essentially complete and still not been shut down.
Of course any game which uses commercial IP for it's content (i.e.
There's even a full mod for the game called The Mystic Realm, among other addons. Sonic Robo Blast 2! A 3D-with-2D-sprites Sonic-inspired game, it seems fairly complete and, whilst not earth shatteringly good, the graphics look fun. Now here's an interesting 'new' (read: new to me) open source game.