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Free Friday: $50,000 Social Game Engine For Free…
Posted on June 25th, 2010 11 commentsHey folks,
Many new indie/experimental game developers are succeeding with Social Games. We’ve convinced a group to help out indies and give out their Social Game Engine for any indie to use. They normally charge $50,000 to license the engine, but all indies can have it for free.
You can use it to make your own Flash Social MMO on Facebook or any other place on the web. Use it with the Free Social Game Development book released a while back to make your own successful game and live the game developer dream…
In the next few days, there will be a series of articles on how to use the engine…in the meantime, feel free to post any questions about the technical details here…we’ll see if we can find an answer to them 🙂
The Social Game Engine uses Flash for the front end and Google App Engine for the backend.
You can download the Social Game Engine here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/social-game-engine.zipKeep in mind that this is an exclusive to the listeners/followers of the show…thanks again for your support and hope you find it useful…enjoy 🙂
7 responses to “Free Friday: $50,000 Social Game Engine For Free…”
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It’d be nice of you to mention the name of the company and link to their website! Also, no license doc in the zip? Kinda weird.
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(But, despite the slightly negative tone of my last comment, it was extremely kind of you to dig this up and post it. Thanks!)
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Hey,
Thanks for the feedback. This was suppose to be released 3 months ago…and there were always reasons why the release was not “perfect”…so the best thing I think is to release it…and then respond to the most pressing concerns.
The company/website that did this is the same as the one that wrote the Social Games book. You can check them out here…
http://www.chromacoders.orgTheir goal is to help students make their own games…this was released for the sake of helping students make their own MMO during the summer. But I convinced them to open it up to other devs. I help out with the organization so I have some pull when it comes to suggestions 🙂
As for license, I don’t think they were clear about it. It is a good idea to put it in the .zip file. Any suggestions on the best license for this…I’ll run it by them. Let me know. Thanks 🙂
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You write “They normally charge $50,000 to license the engine, but all indies can have it for free.”
This isn’t for indies, it says it’s for students. They say “we’ve now made the social game engine FREE for all students to use”
http://www.chromacoders.org/blog/?p=702
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I checked back and they modified things…it says that it is free for all students AND indie game developers to use 🙂
So you can use it 🙂
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Good times. As for license, if the goal is to get as many indies using it as possible, I’d suggest the MIT license. It’s short, sweet, and pretty much says “do whatever the hell you want with this, and you don’t have to release your source code”. Just including its couple of paragraphs is well worth it to avoid any potential legal issues IMO.
If you have enough sway with Chroma Coders to make suggestions for their website, I’d definitely suggest adding a simple About page that says who they are and what they do (unless it’s a private group who only has a website for their own use, obviously). It potentially looks like a good resource for indies but I can’t really tell what they’re about.
Love the podcast, by the way. Learning from (and being inspired by) indie game devs while jogging in the morning is an awesome way to start my day.
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I have tried to use this game engine but there is no documentation for me to make reference to. Please help.
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Gabe June 25th, 2010 at 21:14