by AlienKinetics » Nov 14, 2003 @ 5:49am
Hi Guys, Thanks for the PocketPC!
RE: Price. Yea, $3000 sounds like a lot, but considering major phone companies can release the same game across multiple platforms, its worth it. Personally, I think its too cheap. Communication companies pay million dollar saleries to CEO's. Trust me, if I wanted to make money, I wouldn't be spending this much time earning less than I would in the local fish'n'chip store. I'd probable be writing chonky SEO tools to people that think ranking comes by spamming FFA's and search engines.
You can make money from the GPL version, you just have to release your source. Simple! Data files arn't GPL'ed, so yes, it is possible to write a game, and sell the textures/worlds. a-la Quake II. You dont see the Quake II GPL source stopping IdSoftware from selling Quake II.
Note, the latest version is somewhat better than the GPL version, and trust me, getting MD2 models rendering at a high speed on ARM processors is somewhat harder than OpenGL PC development.
Anyway, have fun with the GPL code. Write some free games, and look out for new code.
Kind Regards
Derek Evans