I was introduced to Fruity Loops Studio recently by someone in the #xna IRC channel. I knew this software existed but only quickly glanced over it because I figured that I wouldn’t be able to do anything worthwhile. Although that is still true, I decided to actually give the demo a run for its money.
Although what I produced is pretty bad by any standard, I at least know that with some time invested into learning music theory, I could actually learn to use this program and start writing some music for my own games. Here is a little track I wrote for the intro screen in my games.
A couple of posts ago I wrote about how my expectations for the new release of Galactic Wars 3 were higher than ever. I also said that it continues to surprise me how many people download each version despite there being only a few functionality additions and enhancements. Well this release has not been any different. Since midday Monday until the writing of this post, Galactic Wars 3 v1.2 has been downloaded over 1520 times. In total, GW3 has been downloaded over 5 000 times since around May 10th. Not too bad for someone whose previous game was downloaded a mere 2600 times over the course of a few months.
Well all of this got me to thinking about the future and about how I want to distribute games. The current model just isn’t working. People have donated, but the numbers do not lie. More people rather download the game, mirror it without approval, change it, and god knows what else with it than donate to my cause and then do those things. And the reason is clear, why give a few bucks of your hard earned cash for something you can get for free from the same place? Well hopefully that will change in the future, but as of now, I can’t promise anything to anyone (not even myself). All I know is that if I had $1 (donation!) for each download of GW3, I would be a lot better off and could take time off to make more games.
At this time, I would like to thank those who did take the time and effort to donate, no matter the size:
- Joseph Torres
- Mark Campbell
- Michael Davis
- Jim Wong
- Leena Berkely
General | John Sedlak | 
October 15, 2008 6:45 pm | 
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