Techno - inside the base?
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| http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=73063#826527 So this game was released six months ago - just did a google for it and found nothing. I know a few blitzers bought it, but was wondering if the author figured it wasn't worth marketing and has moved on? Haven't heard from Paolo in six months! (actually scrub that - I see he's posted about a katamari prototype ;-) http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=75777#847015 |
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| Google "tecno the base" and you'll find it. I bought it, not got very far in it. But will probably re-visit it as I'm stuck using a low specced laptop right now, so it'll probably just about handle tecno but nothing else. |
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| Yep, yer spelling will be whats stopping you getting results :o) |
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| Duh, sure enough, I googled with an 'h'. Anyway, I was just interested in how it's been received (outside of the blitz community) and what sort of marketing Paolo did - I see it's on download.com for example. |
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| Hi there guys!, I have just found this topic :) I haven't got the time to do some marketing lately, mainly because, finally, a publisher from Rusia is willing to publish the game for the russian market (as long as we can successfully finish the translation ...) ... and , during the last few months I have been working with the publisher to complete the translation ( using the MixailV's FastText.dll for unicode chars ), ... we have also fixed some few issues concerning gameplay and such, ... now it is almost done, and I hope no new problems to come up ... the publisher is AKELLA ( http://www.akella.com ), and although the game is considered a low-budget game, I think it is a very good thing for the Blitz community to have a game published in the retail market ... ... at the moment, the publisher is testing what would be the final russian-version, and if everything is ok, then it will be ready by the next week, .... ... finally, now I'm having some time to start doing some "marketing" and such, ... I will be uploading the version 1.3 ( I hope it is the last one), ... shortly, the ones who bought the game will receive an e-mail with the update ... thanks! Paolo. |
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| and although the game is considered a low-budget game Come again? The gameplay looks a hell of a lot more fun than that hundred million dollar budget game, Halo. It looks amazing. May I ask how many people are on your team? |
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| Paolo Congratulations on getting picked up by Akella! They're quite a well-known publisher with some great titles in their library - and now tecno. Are they going to produce a boxed copy or is it on-line sales only? |
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| @Retimer hmmm, well , ... the team is the guys who kindly donated the music + tokamak-wrapper (listed in the credits), ... and me :) @MadJack Till now, the intention is selling a boxed version in stores from Rusia (actually the territory involves all the countries from the ex-USSR, such as Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldavia Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia , ... but I guess Moscow might be their main market place). By the way, ... I'm getting this deal with Akella thanks to Andrei Birukov who is a game intermediary from Rusia, ... maybe you would like to contact him to see if he could get a deal for "Tank Universal". ... write me if you want to know his e-mail ... Paolo. |
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| the intention is selling a boxed version in stores from Rusia As far as I know (and I lived in Russia for 17 years) after 1998 games in ex-USSR are mostly sold in jewel cases. |
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| are mostly sold in jewel cases Very thin boxes then ;-) Paolo I might do that - I'll send you an email shortly. Thanks. I have two other publishers interested, but one wants to publish on-line only (portals) and the other seems to have had some shady dealings in its past. |
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| Anatoly, yes that's ok, I was talking about selling a >CD or DVD< and not on-line version, but I didn't know if it was a box, or jewel case, or whatever ... thanks for the info. MadJack, good to know it, ... maybe we can exchange publishers or something ;) Paolo. |
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| maybe we can exchange publishers or something ;) The on-line publishers I've been dealing with are Meridian4. They do publish box copies and on-line titles such as Bus Driver, but apparently TU was rejected by their retail distributor (they didn't say who that was or why). They seem to be reputable - extensive googling hasn't turned up any devs griping and at first glance, their contract looks ok. http://meridian4.com/ |
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| I bought this when it first came out. didn't play it much do to a lot of weird control issues and the bots where way too hard. But this new version is amazing!! Very fun and good controls now. Great game!! |
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