Gotta be someone around at least to look over their Smash Bros appearances.
But yeah, certainly might be part of why he felt done. Wonder what if this makes those franchises even deader now or a chance for someone else to pitch them.
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Anodyne 2 is coming to consoles on Feb 18.
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Game Maker Studio developer sold to Opera for $10 million. YoYo Games is now part of Opera | Blog | YoYo Games
A lot of indie dev types on Twitter expect this to be dismal, a handful are excited because Playtech didn’t do much with its stewardship of the company, and some are suspicious of what it means that the company sold for only $10 million. I have no idea what to make of it, though.
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right next to this in my RSS feed was, “PUBG developer setting IPO target at $27 billion”
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serious answer is,
- GameMaker doesn’t have a strong paying userbase like Unity nor believable plans to expand it. I think they’re much bigger in the amateur space and when developers professionalize they often move off of GameMaker.
- IPOs are nuts right now because profits are being generated but not many businesses are growing or need capital so tech stocks are just a potential endpoint. A more sensible valuation of KRAFTON based on user count and expected revenue would probably be closer to King Software (Candy Crush dev)'s acquisition by Activision for $6b. Still, it’s worth comparing that to numbers thrown around for traditional publishers: Codemasters for $1b, Warner Games for $4b. Traditional AAA publishing is stable but only a quarter of games revenue.
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That name had me worried they were releasing a plug-n-play system.
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Huh, no Super Turrican 2?
I guess since some people like the weird jank emulation handhelds I should mention that Raspberry Pi announced new microcontroller hardware this morning and one of the third-party products based on it that was announced appears to be a Game Boy Micro-inspired design:
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In surprising localizations: Arc System Works is translating the Switch re-release of the PS2 dungeon crawler(?)/VN Kowloon Highschool Chronicle (aka Kowloon Youma Gakuen Ki: Origin of Adventure and not to be confused with Kowloon’s Gate which is unrelated) and it’s coming out Feb 4 for 30 bucks.
I’ve come across the game in pieces here and there online and it always seemed like one of those interesting titles but so niche to the JP market (first person dungeon crawling with action elements intercut with long VN sections with branching dialogue trees) that probably would never even see a fan translation.
First 2 videos here are from the official marketing:
Dungeon part
High school part
Here’s a sort of digest video of the entire Japanese games so spoilers if you understand it but otherwise might give an idea how it looks
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Yeah, I’m confused, because I thought their plan was to split this up into two collections, with “Director’s Cut” and “Score Attack” versions of Mega/Super Turrican acting as filler, and Super Turrican 2 in one of them.
If they’re just silently backing down from that plan then I’m actually impressed (though slightly disappointed).
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the guy running this site has been doing this (supposedly non-profit) for a while now, and it is impressive to see he’s still doing it five years later (saw him being pitched on FM4 back then, and now again)
so tl;dr, if you like what you see, spread the word and if you should get in contact with him, tell him that came to be via some bloke mentioning the FM4 articles.
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this industry is trash
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it is nice of them to essentially announce “no need to bother buying future tony hawks games” though
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Looking forward to the grind rail course in Shattrath
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Switch version not coming then? 
Much better context on VV with a bit of Actiblizzard inside baseball:
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o7 their destiny 2 work was great
I hope skater xl on switch will be deec at least