http://snarfed.org Ryan Barrett's blog Fri, 18 May 2012 05:50:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://snarfed.org/gdc_2007#comment-486 ryan Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:15:18 +0000 http://snarfed.org/wordpress/gdc_2007#comment-486 <p>nintendo recently announced their plan for indie, user-generated games with <a href="http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/archive/2007/06/26/level-up-exclusive-on-nintendo-wiiware.aspx" rel="nofollow">WiiWare</a>. indie developers will be able to make full-fledged downloadable Wii games and sell them for points, similar to XBLA and PlayStation Network. <br /> <br /> the development side is unclear. will developers still need a dev kit? will a PC and a retail Wii be enough? regardless, it sounds like the certification process will be way less painful than XBLA's or PSN's.<br /> <br /> overall, this is great news. sony, wake up! you can say whatever you want, but everyone knows that WiiWare and XBLA community arcade are light years ahead of your little PS3 linux distro.</p> nintendo recently announced their plan for indie, user-generated games with WiiWare. indie developers will be able to make full-fledged downloadable Wii games and sell them for points, similar to XBLA and PlayStation Network.

the development side is unclear. will developers still need a dev kit? will a PC and a retail Wii be enough? regardless, it sounds like the certification process will be way less painful than XBLA’s or PSN’s.

overall, this is great news. sony, wake up! you can say whatever you want, but everyone knows that WiiWare and XBLA community arcade are light years ahead of your little PS3 linux distro.

]]> http://snarfed.org/gdc_2007#comment-485 Maulik Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://snarfed.org/wordpress/gdc_2007#comment-485 <p>i mean ... i <b>still</b> can't download heehee ... you could be an actual game developer if you packaged that. here's to the double hee</p> i mean … i still can’t download heehee … you could be an actual game developer if you packaged that. here’s to the double hee

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