Thread: Lucid Dream Game Idea

I was kind of thinking that maybe we could do this as the protagonist learning to lucid dream in the beginning of the game
and @Rawracookie I was thinking we might be able to market this for XBox or PS2/PS3

Like on the XBOX/PS3 as downloadable distribution? I'm pretty sure we can still release it under a license we like. The GPL does not prevent us from charging for it. But anybody else who has it can distribute it for free if they so choose.

If you mean like manufacturing boxed discs and sending them to retail, I don't think that is feasible. First, I think you have to purchase rights to whatever SDK they have to develop it for the console (I think). Then we would have to get it manufactured. That's a big investment that I don't think we can make. If we want that, we would have to probably just sell the idea to a developer.

At any rate, I think our best bet would be to develop for Windows/Mac/Linux/etc. If nobody else knows anything about Linux, I do, and can help us program it in a way that would be portable to a Linux PC (which would also probably be portable to Mac).

One motto I have is: "Of course, there is the third path." Which means there is always one more path than the obvious.

Right now we have: Digital console distro, retail console distro, and digital PC (Macs are PC's too. PC does not equals Windows, no matter how much M$ wants you to think that way) distro.

So, this path is digital distro on your cell phone app market whatevers. Your iOS and Android and maybe whatever else there is.

So we have DL console, retail console, DL PC, and DL cell. We can also do a combination of those. Some work on porting might be required. Keep in mind that DL PC option is the easiest to test, and everybody here probably has a computer to test it on.

Originally Posted by Rawracookie

Like on the XBOX/PS3 as downloadable distribution? I'm pretty sure we can still release it under a license we like. The GPL does not prevent us from charging for it. But anybody else who has it can distribute it for free if they so choose.

If you mean like manufacturing boxed discs and sending them to retail, I don't think that is feasible. First, I think you have to purchase rights to whatever SDK they have to develop it for the console (I think). Then we would have to get it manufactured. That's a big investment that I don't think we can make. If we want that, we would have to probably just sell the idea to a developer.

At any rate, I think our best bet would be to develop for Windows/Mac/Linux/etc. If nobody else knows anything about Linux, I do, and can help us program it in a way that would be portable to a Linux PC (which would also probably be portable to Mac).

One motto I have is: "Of course, there is the third path." Which means there is always one more path than the obvious.

Right now we have: Digital console distro, retail console distro, and digital PC (Macs are PC's too. PC does not equals Windows, no matter how much M$ wants you to think that way) distro.

So, this path is digital distro on your cell phone app market whatevers. Your iOS and Android and maybe whatever else there is.

So we have DL console, retail console, DL PC, and DL cell. We can also do a combination of those. Some work on porting might be required. Keep in mind that DL PC option is the easiest to test, and everybody here probably has a computer to test it on.

I like the idea of marketing it Linux. I myself am a unix guy so and it wouldn't be too much of a burden for
me to add in a SunOS compilation as well. Not many people use it but it's not much work and provides another
platform the game will run for. Definitely Linux, Windows, and Mac though.

[edit] Yes, I agree it will be difficult for us at this point to do any sort of hard/physical distribution but perhaps
somewhere down the road when we are more capable it would be good. I feel like people still value the physical
disc much more and it would establish the game a bit better.