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Doesn't the Zeemote pair up? I know I've personally gotten a Wiimote to work over bluetooth.

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Good to see more people devoting resources to maemo.

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Hey, thanks a lot for your supporting on this new OS, i hope that OVI Store will be ok when you have your games ready to publish, and plz be fair with prices, we (community) wanna try and buy any kind of software but price can be a trouble; im from sudamerica but i can pay for a game if it really enjoys (Zen Bound really looks great) :D

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Thanks!

Please consider to make short but free demos of your games like Angry Birds, that will probably increase the interest of your games.

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Wow!! Zen Bound... played it in my old iPhone. It's an awesome game... really looking forward to it. Thanks for the good work.

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SPiN Teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tebfa2ARtk4

Zen Bound Teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7obli6Vx-A

In case anyone doesn't want to waste time on searching. ;)

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While searching for a video of app u making for N900 i came acros the game called "Stair Dismount" are u gonna make that one too??
I used to like it on PC ages ago :)

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welcome to maemo community and we can't wait to get hands on your games!!

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Looks great !! I want some cool new games on N900 so they can use full potential of 600 ARM Cortex... I was messing around with Zelda and other fun stuff on SNES emulator but it is time for some real games so my friends will go ''woow, gemme that brick over here so I can try that'' :D :D

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What happened to the pictures in the original posting? I haven't had the chance to see them yet.

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They still show fine here.

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awesome, thank you.

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Wow - sounds great - can't wait!

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Port the Dismount series over as well :)

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Atleast we got space invaders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VczbbiRmDik

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i've played them on the iphone. i'm glad it is coming to the n900 as well. i can't wait for more developers to create more ports or new games for the n900

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Regarding Stair Dismount (and potentially other Dismounts), demos and other stuff:

These two games (SPiN, Zen Bound) are our first step in testing the Maemo market. If the sales are reasonably better than the cost of porting, then it's obvious that bringing more games over is worth it. But currently we have no clue if a sufficient number of N900 owners is willing to pay for games. I guess we'll learn :)

Zen Bound will have a demo version.

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Any idea when these games will be available?

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Not yet. This is learning experience for us in many ways, both in understanding the hardware and the distribution channel :)

The demo version of Zen Bound is most likely to be the first thing out the oven.

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I'll buy these games immediately without any hesitation...

We need more developers like you. :)

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And an even better video of zenbound. Awesome! Can't wait to see these being available.

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this awesome news and I can't wait to give you money :-)

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2nd that. finally some professional effort. hopefully the developers forward the price-savings to us, which they get by not distributing over itunes

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they dont get nothing extra they still lose 30% by publishing via Nokia/Ovi store. so no savings to pass on to customers

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Actually, that's 30-50%, depending on the price.

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i read it was 30%/70% split after network operator took there cut if operator billing was used, networks used to have extortionate fees in UK dont know if its same now but if i was a publisher i would accept credit card payments only

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AFAIK No. 30%/70% is for credit cards. With operator billing you get between 50%/50% and 40%/60% depending on item value (see 4.4 of Ovi Publisher Terms & Conditions).

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Spin was a great game, had it on symbian as well but under another name:)

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yeah bec, it was called sil on s60. nice game

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one word : awesome ! i didn't thought that it would be so fast to have iphone or even good games be ported on maemo !!!

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Very nice. Great news. If you need some beta testers, i'm in.

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This looks really awesome!

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For those who recognize SiL, I was the game designer and producer for it during my previous employment at the company called Fathammer.

Secret Exit negotiated the rights to SiL from the now defunct Fathammer, but the name "SiL" had been trademarked by another company that shall not be named here.

So, we changed the name of SiL to SPiN, and re-designed parts of its UI and controls, added a new game mode and significantly adjusted the difficulty ramp. It's a better game now :)

SPiN was originally released on the iPhone, but a version for most S60 devices except 5800 and N97 (which were too slow to run it) is currently available in the Symbian Ovi store, released on December 30th, 2009.

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First, welcome to Maemo. It's a great platform.

And I am sure your efforts will be well accepted and rewarded :)

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Awesome :-)

I've still got Zen Bondage on the PC from your Moppi days, it'd be great to play it on the phone too.

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looking good. i look forward to them

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A Fathammer guy... Unbelieveable!
Do you still have the Tapwave Zodiac games?
I have 4 Tapwave Zodiacs² lying around here...

Would it be possible to port the Zodiac games to maemo??
I'm thinking about Tomb Raider and so on...

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Yeah, the founders of Secret Exit are both from Fathammer :)

We've got the source assets and commercial rights for Firehammer, Angelfish, Geopod, SPiN, Stuntcar Extreme and probably a few other games I can't remember right now.

I don't recall what Tomb Raider there was for Zodiac, but the problem with that (and Spy Hunter etc.) is that licensed content would be more of a hassle to negotiate, and the license holders are unlikely to be interested in such a business case.

And frankly, our time is all spent on our new games. Digging into the old Fathammer svn to wonder how to update both the X-Forge engine and the user interfaces to new devices would unfortunately be almost as much work as developing the same game from scratch.

SPiN was a really nice exception because it was designed to be scalable all the way, but the older games are quite resolution-fixed and even the 3D content is designed for a software renderer.

I'm not saying to abandon all hope, but many of those games haven't really aged so well, and the effort to bring them to new devices would be huge. And before anyone asks, no, we can't open source the games, because the commercial rights of the X-Forge engine are owned by a Japanese company these days :)

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Thanks for your answer!
I remember the day, when it was offical, that Tapwave won't continue. I was very sad. Then the day when Fathammer said, they won't continue developing for the Zodiac.. I was even more sad...
And then the day where most of the games where leaked..
xD

I'm sorry, I was young and needed the games ;)

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games on your website look very nice. hope to see allot from you guys in the near future! the n900 can sure use some great games like you guys are making. Its terrible at the moment.