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drebenk
#1 Posted : Monday, March 01, 2010 1:44:22 PM




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I've read in another board that EGM will be shareware. So I'm wondering have you came up with a price for a commercial license? One that will give us the right to make commercial games with EGM.

Also will there be an option for purchasing the source code of EGM so that we can make highly customized games - adding localization, multi resolution support etc?
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#2 Posted : Monday, March 01, 2010 10:49:23 PM




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drebenk wrote:
I've read in another board that EGM will be shareware. So I'm wondering have you came up with a price for a commercial license? One that will give us the right to make commercial games with EGM.

Also will there be an option for purchasing the source code of EGM so that we can make highly customized games - adding localization, multi resolution support etc?


At this time, EGM source code isn't planned to be released but the engine is open source.

As for the price, still haven't decided.
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drebenk
#3 Posted : Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:02:26 AM




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@MrMo IGM from Enterbrain costs around 120 USD so I'm thinking something around or less than 100 USD will be fair enough if EGM proves to be as good as it sounds on theory.

By "open source" you mean that we would be able to add functionality to it, right?
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:23:34 AM




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The engine yes but not the editor. The engine is the actual game, the editor is EGM.
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#5 Posted : Wednesday, March 03, 2010 10:45:43 AM




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@MrMo thanks for the answer.
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#6 Posted : Saturday, March 06, 2010 3:44:23 PM




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Look at how powerful game maker is and it's only $30, IGM from enterbrain is $120 which with that engine it's extremely limited and NOT worth the money at all as I bet you can't export it back in like EGM(Hopefully).

If anything this should be closer to Game Makers price as it's probably a good competitor.
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#7 Posted : Saturday, March 06, 2010 6:48:37 PM




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Rukiei wrote:
Look at how powerful game maker is and it's only $30, IGM from enterbrain is $120 which with that engine it's extremely limited and NOT worth the money at all as I bet you can't export it back in like EGM(Hopefully).


EGM doesn't export your game to any platform, its all in one engine because of the compaliblity already in place for XNA (Windows and XBOX) and Silverlight :).
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drebenk
#8 Posted : Saturday, March 06, 2010 7:13:04 PM




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If you sell the engine with just engine and tools (editor) then the price should be around $50. Then you can make the art and sound packs sold separately for $10 or something like that.

If you chose to sell the engine and tools with an art and sound pack included then a price of around $100 is really fair.

My personal position is that if the engine and editors do all what is described here in the site the way it is described and if the tools/editors are user friendly enough (Enterbrain's RMXP and RMVX are really user friendly) then the price mentioned above will be right.

It really boils down to what EGM can do and how well it does it. ^^
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#9 Posted : Sunday, March 07, 2010 12:43:22 AM




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Multimedia Fusion 2 can do pretty much anything described for this engine (though MMF2 has a much less user-friendly interface) and goes for $120 last I checked. IGM goes for $90, not $120. I think EGM itself should go for about $60 barebones, or $90 with custom resources included. However, I still think even a barebones version of EGM should have some basic resources for testing purposes (not high quality resources though), like what Game Maker does.
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#10 Posted : Sunday, December 12, 2010 1:12:02 PM




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120!!!!????

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