Monday, December 20, 2010

Impact JS - only for money?

Pubblicato da Marte a 3:54 PM Etichette: ,
Seems to be incredible that a great framework to do HTML5 games will be sell for 99$.. too much for a little market with no way (for now) to try something on coding site :(


"You couldn't consider releasing a free license for non-commercial development?"

A non commercial license with good opensource option (even with dual license system) could be a good point to build a big community of HTML videogame programmers, an occasion lost I think.. so: think twice!

10 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM

    Oh, come on! Its obvious the author put a lot of time and effort into the engine, especially the phone versions. Expecting everything on the internet to be free is completely unreasonable. The time I'd save using this engine instead of coding it myself is worth a lot lot more than $99. How much is your time worth?

    I do agree that some kind of non-commercial version would be great and hope the author does, eventually, go that route, if only to provide us with a means of trying before we buy, but even if he doesn't, I'm probably going to buy a license.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 7:17 PM

    I can't understand people like you. He spent a fucking lot of time in developing this engine and I guess he isn't the kind of guy who is doing this as a hobby... So since developing is his job, he needs some fucking money to live. So sad that so many people dont unerstand that.
    And $99 for an engine is really not much.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 7:35 PM

    The grand list of similar (free) projects:
    http://easeljs.com/
    https://github.com/biilly/doodle-js
    https://github.com/fairfieldt/xcjs
    https://github.com/batiste/sprite.js
    https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js
    https://github.com/ysimonson/canvas.js
    https://github.com/davebalmer/jo
    https://github.com/lostdecade/diggy
    http://gamejs.org/
    http://www.aframejs.com/
    http://gamequery.onaluf.org/
    http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

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  4. AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 7:38 PM

    Yes this guy must be a real arsehole expecting someone to pay for his time and effort. What a douche!

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  5. MarteDecember 20, 2010 at 9:01 PM

    I respect all point of view, so thanks for your comments in first place.

    As developer (with a real work in real world, not in game industry :D) I know how much work every line of code require, but with so great framework (even free! Like Flashpunk) around, why someone need to pay to make a game?
    For me make games is just a hobby, so my choice is not to pay money for something I can do :D

    Thanks for good link, I'll check for alternative :D

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  6. AnonymousDecember 21, 2010 at 2:45 AM

    "I can't understand people like you. He spent a fucking lot of time in developing this engine and I guess he isn't the kind of guy who is doing this as a hobby... So since developing is his job, he needs some fucking money to live. So sad that so many people dont unerstand that.
    And $99 for an engine is really not much."

    Yup. Totally agree. He clearly states in his post that he'd like to develop Impact full-time (and therefore needs money to pay the bills, etc.).

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  7. TommyDecember 21, 2010 at 12:09 PM

    I think it's funny how people take my comment ("You couldn't consider releasing a free license for non-commercial development?") and somehow twist it into: "LOLWTF!? WHY ISN'T IT FREE!?!?!?"

    Offering a free version for non-commercial work and a pay version for commercial work gives you the best of two worlds. You can get a large fan base while still making money from those that decide to create commercial games. A developer that only develops free games is not going to spend $99 on a tool (especially since there's no way to evaluate it before purchasing, other than reading the docs). Better to let those free developers use the engine and get comfortable with it. That way they'll buy it if they ever decide to make a commercial game.

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  8. ShaneDecember 21, 2010 at 12:36 PM

    Whoever linked to my library (aframejs.com) here, thanks!

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  9. RoguedjackDecember 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM

    He can sell his work for sure, but if he doesn't offer a free version for non-commercial use he is just shooting himself in the foot. It's common sense to offer a free and a commercial licence for middleware.

    Does a JS engine/framework has a commercial value anyway? I know nothing about HTML5 middleware market.

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  10. Matt AdamsJanuary 4, 2011 at 8:51 PM

    Unfortunately, for him, he's going to run into an issue where somebody or some group will reverse engineer his progress and build above him.

    If the market demands an HTML5/JS game framework, an Open Source solution will appear. It always does.

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