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Re: Where are Speccy games deveopers today?

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Well that is mainly because there are not the support programs to make it 
easy to do any more or in fact the ability for a loner to break into the 
market, unless its a niche product like we see as shareware or free or 
donation ware.
Blind games for example are often coded by a very small team, even one 
person sometimes. However you are not going to get rich quick by just 
writing for iche markets, its often a labour of love.

Brian

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<losborne74@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Friday, 24 March 2017 14:07:40 UTC, bit-n...@hotmail.com  wrote:
> ...so what happened to all those guys? Where are they today? What are they 
> upto? What do they do? Do any of them still code?
>
>
> ...and I'm also wondering very much.... Your Sinclair or Your Spectrum, I 
> forget which one it was, but the OLD one.....where is it's EDITOR today? 
> What does he do?

I think it's a bit like comparing apples with oranges. Coding 8-bit games 
tended to be quite a solitary effort - often a game would be designed, 
developed and programmed by just one person, graphics, gameplay, sound, the 
lot. Nowadays there tends to be a cast of thousands involved, but yeah, I 
think a lot of games developers cut their teeth in the old days. There's not 
really an equivalent of the "bedroom coder" these days, though. 

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Where are Speccy games deveopers today? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-03-24 07:07 -0700
  Re: Where are Speccy games deveopers today? Gerald Holdsworth <nospam@hollypops.co.uk> - 2017-03-24 16:04 +0000
  Re: Where are Speccy games deveopers today? losborne74@gmail.com - 2017-03-27 03:50 -0700
    Re: Where are Speccy games deveopers today? "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-03-30 17:45 +0100
  Re: Where are Speccy games deveopers today? Adam Ainsworth <adam.ainsworth@gmail.com> - 2017-03-28 14:41 -0700
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  Re: Where are Speccy games deveopers today? "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-03-30 17:41 +0100

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