[Coco] Game Developers Wanted

[Jorge Renato Machin Ibarra]

When I was a child, I always wished to do a multiplayer soccer game and a multiplayer chess game for my two color computers and I did some attempts. Those early programs are not so very different in concept from those I used in my current games. This is a screenshot of a multiplayer soccer I developed for Kellogg's:
 
http://www.machin.com.mx/iGallery/zukcity/cancha3.jpg
 
And this is a current attempt using Roger Taylor's Wireless RS-232:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-NiaxW4siw
 
 
Jorge Machin
 
 
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:47:18 -0400
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Game Developers Wanted
> 
> I know what you mean, of course nobody is doing CoCo stuff for profit
> these days.
> Was just thinking that someone who had already written a CoCo game
> years back might be able to cash in on the design/ideas from the
> original by putting something in the new gadget market... sort of a
> round about way to make money on an old CoCo game.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> I wonder if today's smartphones could provide a second life to some of
> >> the old coco games as "apps" that sold for a couple bucks. I'd
> >> imagine it would take more of a rewrite than a port, but with some
> >> updated graphics some might be hits. A "good" game from the coco era
> >> should still be a good game in concept today. Not sure if it would
> >> make money, but there's always the chance :)
> >
> > Yes, it could... if you wrote it  for a modern platform like iphone or
> > android.
> >
> > But your missing what I'm saying.
> >
> > I'm talking about the *CoCo community*. Does anyone make any money on CoCo
> > games programming nowadays?
> >
> > I sold 2 copies of my Pacman last year but $20 in a year does not constitute
> > "making money".
> >
> > Nick
> >
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