Before I wrote my first program, I built pysical things. Lego helecopters with improvised rotors driven by the motor of a broken RC car and a 9v battery. I collected circuit boards, opened anything I could (with no concern for my own safety) and ‘repaired’ things that had obvious issues with it, like dodgy contacts/wiring/soldering. I think I was about 9 or 10 years old at this point. I also had various electronics kits, the ones that had little spring contacts for wiring things up, and came with big thick 200-page manuals full of schematics.
Then we got a computer at home, and it all, kinda, stopped.…
So… all previous posts have really been about me making some games in my spare time. There have been no real updates in a very long time, and thats because basically: the game failed massively.
I’d have hoped there would be enough sales to pay for the web hosting for leaderboards, replays, and the SSL certificate. Over a year I couldn’t even pay for the SSL certificate! So yeah, it really didn’t work. So instead, i’m simply going to use this to post things that interest me, current projects, etc. It’s quite a change, as I’m not going to start with software, which is what I’ve been doing for a very long time.…
There has been much discussion over the past view days about the game modes planned for Gears of Glory: Apex Ace, especially given the ‘never seen before‘ time-shifted multiplayer of a racing game featured during this weeks Apple iPhone 5 keynote.
I’m not going to go into detail of what I think about the feature, or what past games had interactive ghosts/replays and how the affected gameplay. This post is about what Gears of Glory: Apex Ace offers.
The open beta releasing super-soon comes with several race modes:
Season Tier time-trial
In this mode, players race all of the season circuits.…
It’s time to discuss pricing for Gears of Glory: Apex Ace.
Originally, I wanted to price the game around the cost of an espresso; about £1.50. The game is small, but there is a certain replayability aspect if you enjoy racing, so I think £1.50 is perfectly reasonable, albeit cheap for a PC release.
I’ve had to increase this to £2.40, for various reasons.
Reason 1) VAT. Before I state the following, please remember I Am Not An Accountant.
UPDATE
Well, I did say I was not an accountant. The next point on VAT is completely false. For digital goods, you only need to register + charge VAT in your own state if you go above the national threshold, which I don’t think I’ll be doing.…
I recently had Gears of Glory: Apex Ace playable on the floor of the Dare Indie Fest, which is the UKs largest indie games showcase. It was a great experience for me as the developer, both personally and from a development of the game standpoint. I made mistakes, but also did many things right, and it didn’t cost me an arm and a leg.
Right – Lighting Considerations
This is something many on the day did not prepare for. I have a poster and a large game logo board I wanted on the back ‘poster panel’ (viewable from the pics), but wanted to make sure visitors to the booth could actually see and read it, from a fair distance.…
Hi folks, Colin / @domipheus here.
It’s been quite a hectic couple of months. As you will have seen, Gears of Glory: Apex Ace is not available – even though it’s July, and the releases all said coming May 2012.
Well, to put it bluntly, I screwed up on the timing. I’ve certainly learned something from this experience, in that it seems journalists don’t seem too bothered by launch dates. This is the opposite of what I expected – I thought having a launch date would give some credibility to Domipheus Labs as an unknown entity for journalists to draw on when trying to get some press coverage.…
