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loves2splooge on 23 May 2011
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kitler53 said:
Ail said:
Damnyouall said:

http://humblehomebrew.com/

About "The Humble Homebrew Collection":

...

Let Sony know that, as a customer, you want homebrew games, you want to see the real purpose of the Copyright Law used properly: To encourage creativity and innovation. Let them know that, as a customer, you are willing to pay for quality homebrew and that if they wanted to, they can get a share of that money. After all, all they care about is money!

Thank you


There's this thing called Playstation store.

If you want to go publish a game for the PS3 that is the way to go.....

but that would require purchasing a development kit from sony and those are expensive.  didn't you know that we are entitled to free access to all of sony's development tools?  i mean, if EPIC can give out Unreal for free certain sony should have to as well ...

But even if they could afford the development kit is that any guarantee that Sony would accept the games onto Playstation Store? If you are an upstart indie development studio, you're not going to get on PSN. If an indie studio makes it onto PSN, it's usually because they made their name before with computer or smartphone games. Right now the only real option for an unspart indie developer is the home computer or Android. Even the Critter Crunch guys started with mobile games.

The PC and Android are the wild, wild west. Even if your stuff isn't accepted by Android Market, you can still set up your own website and sell your apps there and you don't have to mod a PC or root an Android to play these homebrew games. You might get in Apple App Store or Xbox Live Indie Games but Apple are notorious app rejection nazis (and you'll have to jailbreak an iOS device to play "unauthorized content") and you need to pass a community-led peer-review to get on Xbox Live Indie Games.

This is why the PC and Android (so as long as Google keeps it open) will always be awesome. It's a truly democratic process. Anyone with a computer and some pirated software and e-books that is willing to learn can call themselves a videogame designer (not necessarily a good one though. lol).