Submitting GS games to Xbox and PS

charliehgreencharliehgreen ArizonaMember Posts: 233
in Working with GS (Mac)
Hello,

I noticed that we can make and submit apps to a lot of devices, is there any chance or rumors going around about being able to submit to actual console systems soon?

I know the xbox 360 has a huge indie section and if we could touch that section, that would be heaven on earth :)

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  • CaptFinnCaptFinn Member Posts: 1,828
    Fuzzy Dice? Replace Spark Plugs?
  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited December 2013
    @FINNBOGG
    Fuzzy Dice? Replace Spark Plugs?
    Lol. :)

    Missing steering wheel, currently steering with a spanner gripping the nut where the steering wheel used to be . . . . on the way to the car shop to pick up some white leather seat covers, going to look real sexy . . . .
  • mataruamatarua Auckland, New ZealandMember Posts: 854
    @charliehgreen do you have any idea what is involved and costs and hoops to jump through?

    http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/24/4553842/so-how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-for-playstation-4
  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    No, not going to happen.
  • charliehgreencharliehgreen ArizonaMember Posts: 233
    @matarua
    Yes, of course it won't be an easy/cheap process that's why I said "Is there any chance or rumors". And the xbox 360 already allow indie game devs to submit games, the PS4 will cater to indie game devs as well.
  • KevinCrossKevinCross London, UKMember Posts: 1,894
    Imagine finding a universal build template to work with all of the different size TV's >.<
  • mataruamatarua Auckland, New ZealandMember Posts: 854
    @charliehgreen Ouya which is Android, a platform we can already publish to is not even a rumor as far as I know - people want that and have talked about that a lot - even suggested UI for button mappings and everything.

    That would be the logical next step.

    @KevinCross - most TV sets are 16:9 which is the ok ratio for us - pixels for pixels tho? Yeah, not sure on that. But we sit so much further back from the screen and the pixel density on a big TV is 50ppi or lower. Compare that to over 300ppi for phones.

    It would be cool guys, for sure :)
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    @charliehgreen Ouya which is Android, a platform we can already publish to is not even a rumor as far as I know - people want that and have talked about that a lot - even suggested UI for button mappings and everything.

    That would be the logical next step.
    Don't rely on logic! I always thought that seeing as we had Game Center on iOS, we'd get it for Mac too.

    No dice though.

    I've felt for a while that all the new platforms added have been lacking features. It looks great to investors/shareholders/management to be able to say 'We're available on X number of platforms'.

    For us little guys actually using the software, it's less impressive when you can't add leaderboards/achievements on anything other than iOS for example.

    I'd love for us to be able to make PS4/Vita games, for example, as they have quite strict quality rules - but there'd be no point to it unless trophy achievements were in from day one.

    Additionally, getting on Steam would be pretty awesome too. But again, that would necessitate being able to use the Steam API for achievements and stuff.

    Instead we'd probably be able to eventually just make games for PC. There is a difference, and it'll be ignored.

    Them: You can make games for PC now! (happy shareholders)
    Us: But for it to be useful we need to be on Steam with all the trimmings (sad pandas)

    So while new platforms would be ace, I'm not holding my breath!

    Happy to be proved wrong though!

    QS =D
  • charliehgreencharliehgreen ArizonaMember Posts: 233
    Great/funny points made here, I didn't plan on it I just thought it would be cool to publish to consoles. Especially since indie game devs post almost anything on the xbox indie section.

    @matarua And yes, the OUYA was actually on my mind when posting this. If we could publish to the OUYA then I would purchase one, instantly.
  • mataruamatarua Auckland, New ZealandMember Posts: 854
    @quantumsheep - we work in logic all day and then have to turn it off? =))
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