Hi! this is really an interesting proposition but as you notice, we are not used to manage money in our free software project :-)
There are some problems to resolve if we want to go further : - what do you call an arcade version ? do you need special device handling ? what features are needed ? I suppose that Options menu will probably be hidden and so on, but this is easy... - what about the support ? - how can you legally remunerate "us" ? For the moment, we are thinking about creating an association for managing this money and try to organize some events. - what can we do with this money ? (this is only a Wormux team problem ;-)) Well, as you have probably noticed, the game also has some bugs, it need sounds and so on, so currently, I don't think it can be sold like this. The money can be a solution to pay a professional sound maker for doing some sounds. As game vendor, perhaps you know some that would agree to release their sounds in GPL licence ? Anyway, it will not solve the bugs problem which can be only resolved by developers. I'm quite opposed to pay someone to develop Wormux as there is so many work done by volunteers. But the problems of current developer is time, time to find the bug, and time to fix them :-/ We are waiting for your answers ;-) Regards, Matthieu Fertré (gentildemon) > Hello, guys! > > I'm Salvatore Carotenuto of Emthesis Development, an italian software > house and videogames company. We have created a new hardware platform > designed for the arcade market, and we are just selling it around the > world, in 18 countries. > The platform is called PlayON and (YES!!!) it's linux based. Due to > this, every software able to run on linux can run on our arcade platform > (the base system is a special reduced distro made by us, and derives > from a Slackware11). One of the topmost features of our arcade system is > that the games are easily replaceable because resides on normal usb > drives (the platform uses an usb drive also as main harddrive). The > other big feature is the low price, so we plan to sell from 3000 to 6000 > units only in 2008, worldwide. > > Have you ever thought to publish an arcade version of Wormux?? I've > played it and i found it very funny. And i was a fan of Worms still in > the old good days of the Amiga! ;) (Yes, I was an Amiga developer ;( ) > We have a special agreement form that gives to the developer the 50% of > the net income deriving from selling the games. Keep in mind that every > copy of a game for PlayON platform can be sold from 150 to 800 euros > (the difference is made by the 'level' of the game and by the > destination market). The 50% of this amount goes to the developer. > > Visit www.play-on.it for more informations. Feel free to contact me on > skype or via msn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for every information needed. > > I'm waiting for an answer! :) > > _______________________________________________ Wormux-dev mailing list Wormux-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wormux-dev
