A few days ago I got a mail from Knitter asking if he could make a port of Me and My Shadow for iOS.
I've got permission to copy paste his mail so here it is:
- Hi,
I've been toying with the idea of porting the game to a mobile platform, I
already made some prototypes that I used to learn a bit about Android
development and some game development frameworks but they were just small
projects I used to learn, and having a familiar theme helped. I've attended
a fast paced iOS game development workshop/summer school this last week and
the idea came back so I would like to know what are you're thoughts on
having a port for iOS, or if not a straight port, a game based on Me & My
Shadow.
I would, naturally, abide by the existing licenses and provide all the
credits, I don't want to create a clone to ride on Me & My Shadow's name.
So the game would be open source, the code would be on a public
server/hosting and I would try to coordinate as much as possible with the
PC version. Still, since iOS development is a bit expensive (Apple Store
fees, iOS devices for testing, etc) I was thinking of providing both a free
(as in gratis) version and another version at around the usual 79 cents,
maybe 1 dollar, that users could buy if they wanted to support development.
I don't know what are the expenses Me & My Shadow currently has but I would
be more than happy to send all the profits to either Me & My Shadow or
other open source projects.
What I'm trying to find is if you would be OK with me doing this and even
offering a paid version of the game on Apple Store. My goals are to offer
the game to another target audience and another platform, to increase my
portfolio (naturally I'm not taking credit for the game but for the port),
and to see if I could use an open source game to finance other open source
projects (one project I would like to give some money to is WTactics so
that they can have more art that will then be returned to the open source
community through OGA).
I'm assuming there will be some sales (though I don't really know if there
will be any or if it will be enough to cover at least the developer fee),
but it may be that only the free version is downloaded.
Regards,
Sérgio Lopes, aka Knitter