Mighty no. 9
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The creator of megaman, Keiji Inafune, launched this project on kickstarter just about a day ago and they're already about to hit their mark.
He can explain it better than I, check out the pitch: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9
Looks fantastic.
He can explain it better than I, check out the pitch: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9
Looks fantastic.
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And It's weird, there should be to many people excited here. I suppose they don't like the project.
they reached their goal
Regardless, though, I'm looking forward to this game like crazy! I can't wait to see what he comes up with now that he's revisiting the formula, both hands on the reins!
Yes, but they do own Mega Man. They are a lot of similarities when you read about the game that come pretty close. Look what happened when Shouzou Kaga, the creator of Fire Emblem series, created his own game, Tear Ring Saga. From the wiki:
"The game was designed by Shouzou Kaga, a former game designer for Intelligent Systems and creator of the Fire Emblem series. Resulting from this the game bears many similarities to the Fire Emblem series. This caused Intelligent Systems and Fire Emblem series publisher Nintendo to file a lawsuit against Enterbrain and Tirnanog in July, 2001, claiming that the company was guilty of copyright infringement. The first trial ended in November, 2002, where the Tokyo District Court turned down Nintendo's claims. Nintendo filed a second lawsuit on appeal, and the second trial began three months after the first, this time under the Tokyo High Court. The second trial ended in November, 2004, and Enterbrain was ordered to pay a fine of 76 million yen to Nintendo. However, the game was not ruled as a breach of copyright, and copies remained in stores. Nintendo and Intelligent Systems made another appeal to the Japanese Supreme Court, where the second ruling was upheld. The final court proceedings ended in April, 2005. Tear Ring Saga had originally been announced in 2000 as Emblem Saga, but the game system and layout were changed around considerably by the time of the game's actual release after Nintendo threatened to take legal action."
Hey, I'm not saying Capcom would be be able to stop it, nor do I think they should, but I do think it's something that Inafune would need to consider.
I still don't think the game infringes on anything, but lord knows the courts are far less reasonable than I am most of the time :poly131:
Wait and see I guess !
Mighty no 9 does seem to have the spirit of the original series, but it does seem to take quite a bunch from zero, which was basically an improved megaman-x.
How long is a string?
Hate to say it but some of those cancelled megaman projects looked like they deserved to be cancelled, that series has too many cobwebs from the 90s hanging around it.
Yup, it's expensive to make games. Doublefine actually went over budget on their point & click adventure game, they raised over $3 million for their kickstarter. The 2d fighting game Skullgirls had a budget of $1.2 million and they needed at least $150,000 to add add another character to the game. Check out their Indiegogo page to see the cost breakdown of adding a new character.
here's another: Jonathan Blow talking about The Witness - Its all the money I made off Braid. $2.5 million. Maybe $3 million, I dont know. It depends on how long it takes.
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You serious?
It costs $150,000 to add a single character to Skullgirls:
http://kotaku.com/5986592/it-will-blow-your-mind-to-see-how-much-it-costs-to-add-one-new-character-to-a-fighting-game
None of that takes into account things like:
- Rental of office space
- Software licences
- Computers/Hardware
- HR/Administration/Accounting/Finance
- Marketing/Advertising/PR/Community Support
$1 million really isn't much to make a game.
Considering how congested and inefficient their hitboxes are, i don't take it as a definitive example. Also, that's a fighting game - most of the time would go into balancing and debugging for competitive play.
Well if you have a team of 10 people and you paying them 50,000 a year, that is half the money gone right there. That doesn't even factor in stuff like rent, equipment, ect. It adds up quick.
you ever worked on a modern sophisticated side scroller?
1 Million is nothing in terms of a budget
you will need a studio infrastructure, just the usual rent can add up to tens of thousands a year, power, water, whatever supplies, software licenses, hardware, salaries, taxes - it makes *poof* and all the money is gone.
They just released some placeholder test footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXDiQrgI6M
Looks awesome for just one week.
edit: how the hell do you embed video?
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