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GDC: New tools and middleware coming to PS4 (Unity, GameMaker:Studio and MonoGame)
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Canis lupus
Member
Should put their names in the title (Unity, GameMaker:Studio and MonoGame).
Yep its really fantastic to see.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
I think my Vita just passed out from all of this awesome news.
Nightengale
Member
Hmm, so basically as of right now:
Unity : not free.
PhyreEngine : free for Playstation. License fees applicable to other consoles.
GameMaker Studio : free.
MonoGame : open-source, free.
ATF tools : open-source, free.
Unity : not free.
PhyreEngine : free for Playstation. License fees applicable to other consoles.
GameMaker Studio : free.
MonoGame : open-source, free.
ATF tools : open-source, free.
TheRealTalker
Banned
newer tools are always welcome
Yeah you are right silly me.
HassanJamal
Member
Shahid lives up to his tweet. This is very good news for indies and playstation fans everywhere.
Yup, games are games. I'll try anything that looks cool. I say keep em coming!
As someone who considers GameMaker to be a fine prototyping tool, but off-limits for serious work, announcements like this -- along with the constant stream of quality GameMaker games that demonstrate the viability of the tool for 'real' game development -- are changing my mind quickly.
(The coder in me still wants to do the work in a standard development language, but my big pile of unfinished projects attests to the futility of that. Maybe I should just give in and go with GameMaker in the understanding that if I ever make something that isn't pure crap that I'll be able to deploy it just about everywhere without having to rewrite it from scratch anyway...)
EDIT: The MonoGame announcement is interesting, too. I was quite the fan of XNA back in the day, and even went so far as to write a simple game using it. I tried building it in MonoGame a few months back, and everything worked out of the box with no tweaks. If anything, a port of MonoGame should allow easier ports of existing XNA stuff for those who want to go down that route. I'm not sure I'd start doing new development with it though...
(The coder in me still wants to do the work in a standard development language, but my big pile of unfinished projects attests to the futility of that. Maybe I should just give in and go with GameMaker in the understanding that if I ever make something that isn't pure crap that I'll be able to deploy it just about everywhere without having to rewrite it from scratch anyway...)
EDIT: The MonoGame announcement is interesting, too. I was quite the fan of XNA back in the day, and even went so far as to write a simple game using it. I tried building it in MonoGame a few months back, and everything worked out of the box with no tweaks. If anything, a port of MonoGame should allow easier ports of existing XNA stuff for those who want to go down that route. I'm not sure I'd start doing new development with it though...
I think he referring to free unity
Oh right that would be great to see as well.
Maybe he/she means in terms free Unity? They also have HTML5 development as well, which opens up several more game maker editors, like Construct 2, etc. My guess on what he/she meant anyways.
Edit: Beaten.
Actually Nintendo is pretty open about their system, provided you are not located in Japan, and talking with some Wii U devs, they still have the lowest barrier of entry with things like free Unity, free HTML 5 and even free loaner dev kits.
About the only way they could go more open is to do what Microsoft did with the 360 and let pretty much anyone (not just registered developers) deploy to the console. They've already open sourced a few of their tools, and they're bending over backwards to get support for every major game development framework on their platforms. Also, it sounds like if you have a decent idea (and some basic work to show Sony), they'll go out of their way to get you the hardware and software you need.
(Admittedly, Nintendo has made great strides here as well. At least you don't need an office to be considered a 'real developer' by Nintendo anymore.)
Lasthope106
Member
So glad to see Monogame gaining more ground. I hope it surpasses XNA in every respect once it's more widely adopted, and also that it allows the many, many developers who put in the time to learn and master XNA to use those skills.
Ohh that sounds nice.
Yep, in the U.S. getting into the program and getting a free loaner devkit was super easy. I'm a software developer but I'd never even sold a game before, and didn't have a dedicated office, but it wasn't an issue.
ditto for me as well.
Free Unity and the ability to port iOS and HTML5 games to the system. It kinda surprises me that PS4 doesn't do the same.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
You made love? Neat!Game Maker Studio on PS4? Looks like I'll have to port Love over.
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
George Claw M.D.
Member
So, I'm guessing this was Chubigan's megaton?
jackissocool
Member
The fact that we're averaging more than one indie game announcement a day is insane already, and it's only gonna increase more.
Crimson_Gold
Member
That was ice cold
Yeah I think we had only 1 today which is quite odd though!
EdReedFan20
Member
Geez, it seems that every day we hear about a new game coming to PS4/PS3/Vita. With this stuff, we might get multiple announcements per day!
hodayathink
Member
Technically, yes. His was specifically GameMaker (and the fact that his game running on a PS4 is at GDC)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=787364
Hmm I thought they were or was they working on something else?
Andrefpvs
Member
They're working on Cosmic Star Heroine, right now. The Cthulhu All-Stars idea was either postponed or cancelled (I still hope they do it ^^).