Beware the Digital Sticky Wicket: Free Computer Cricket Game
Submitted by Taran on Tue, 11/21/2006 - 02:47
This just in: game software released in Trinidad and Tobago - a free computer version of a boardgame of cricket for all you batsmen and bowlers out there. The announcement:
When last did you receive anything that was truly FREE?
Just in time for Christmas, and whatever else may be carded for next year,
Parodice Games is happy to present you with a FREE copy of the computer
version of the board game: QUICKIT.http://www.cricket.tt/download/Quickit.jar
QUICKIT requires that you have Java's Virtual Machine software installed,
which you may download freely at http://java.com/en/download/manual.jspThe game is still under development, so in order to ensure that you always
have the latest version, this one is scheduled to expire on 30 Nov. 2006.We regret causing you this inconvenience, but we are sure that you will
enjoy the improvements we would have made by then.Updates will be posted on http://www.cricket.tt without notice as they
become available, so you need not wait for the copy you have to expire.Enjoy!
Raul Bermudez
toymaker_AT_parodicegames.com
So have at it - and let Raul know what you think. I know he's been pushing on this baby for at least 4 years.
Thanks!
Thanks Taran. There is a much improved version that is about to go up. You will be the first to know. I know that it is not fair to the product and the people to come out in this half baked way, but 2007, and all the Cricket things it brings, is rapidly approaching and I needed to start building some momentum.
When we figure out how it is done, we will replace the date limit with a notification when there is an update available and give the user the option to update or not. I suspect that that won't happen until, at least, the rules and score board are in.
http://www.parodicegames.com/parodice/games/quickit/demo/index.html
I wrote the original version of the game in Microsoft QuickBasic for the Macintosh more than eleven years ago (which would account for the quirky graphics and eight colours), 'Quickit 80511-01' being the last version I put out, and Quickit.jar is becoming a true translation of that into Java.
Stay tuned, things are about to get much better.
Raul is gonna become a very
Raul is gonna become a very rich man next year...quicket is very addictive..
Perhaps not...
Perhaps not, or certainly not at the rate we are now going.
We have decided that the computer version of Quicket will ALWAYS be FREE, and while we may earn something at some stage by using the game to promote other peoples products and services, a lot more work and money will have to go into it for that to work.
http://www.parodicegames.com/parodice/games/quickit/hoardings/
It is a good plan, I think, but I have found it very difficult to attract the talent/skills.
I spent a good bit of money and a lot of time trying to do the FLOS thing, but that was not as simple as some make it out to be. At the end we were got no further than the "F" for FREE. I am too embarrassed to show you what that exercise looked like.
Backing Raul up...
I'm a FLOS advocate, and I can honestly say that Raul was in the thick of things trying to get things working. I think that the business model being used - if it doesn't change - actually supports a proprietary license.
I'd rather he GPL it, but - he deserves a return on investment, and no one can guarantee that for him. Of course, someone with a thick wallet might be able to do something...
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