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SoftWarewolf

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28th May, 2009 at 02:09:30 -

hey!
i have been.. around.. for many years here. i am probably one of the oldest.. i haven't really said much, but i would love to be more integrated in the create-games and general game making community.

i have sparked up one of my old projects, you can watch the trailer here!




the video can also be found on www.froggerbound.com, i just registered

in addition to making a own website for froggerbound i also want to make 2 more sites.

one is the main SoftWarewolf website (.com\.net) where i will have my own games, general stuff that i am have made.. a personal site if you will, it will be black, dark and flashy
in addition to that i registered www.gameyey.com ^^ i want to make this a more professional'ish site, white and clean with maybe some affiliates and ads etc and try to make a buck, i paid a lot for mmf2 dev and websites etc so i hope i can earn a bit back someday.. so far i made.. maybe 10$ for a single copy of Spacebar after hundreds of hours work and spending my own government given loans on multimedia fusion etc..

so i hope Frogger bound can be a success.. and that if i actually do make some money i won't get sued
its pretty solid with over 100 levels (soon) level editor, challenges, options, boss and everything (you don't see everything in the trailer)

i was thinking selling it for 19,95$ like all the other games out there, but also have the donation option where people who donate (even just 1cent) will get the game too.
i am not sure if i will have almost all the features open anyway, just donation\purchase to remove nag screen or if i should hide away most of the game and actually have it as a shareware game, what do you think?

 
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28th May, 2009 at 02:11:54 -

This looks pretty good! There seems to be many different kinds of traps so there'll probably be some good game play.

 
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28th May, 2009 at 02:18:27 -

This looks really cool!

 

  		
  		

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28th May, 2009 at 02:30:41 -

I loved the action in this! You should create a project page so we can keep following this

 
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28th May, 2009 at 03:36:43 -

What is this music from!!! It was stuck in my head the other day! I know it's from some recent movie trailer. . .

 
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28th May, 2009 at 03:58:27 -

The music is from Requiem of a dream- it's actually pretty popular in fan trailers, and it IS a good song...

Anyways, this looks REALLY cool, but I think the music was abit dramatic for the trailer. Nonetheless it looks mighty fine, and I can't wait to play it!

 
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28th May, 2009 at 06:35:04 -

woah, this game seems epic. Who knew that little frog could be such a star

 
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28th May, 2009 at 07:52:57 -

Frogger is a trademark. If you charge for a product - a videogame, no less - under that name it is very possible that you'll face legal action from Konami.

It looks a lot more varied and fun than Frogger's rather basic game mechanic. Are you not tempted to make your own IP with its own character?

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28th May, 2009 at 09:12:07 -

i'm pretty sure FROGGER is a very protected game. You may have problems if you try to sell this.

Did it really take 7 years to make? Or did you start it 7 years ago and then came back to it recently?

Anyway, the video is nicely edited and timed. Good job on that.

Good luck

 
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SoftWarewolf

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28th May, 2009 at 12:33:10 -

thanx for all the positive energy, i definitely want to work on this game even harder now
perhaps i should just have changed the name.. i already registered froggerbound.com though.. i'll change the name if it gets popular or Konami says something

i actually mixed the 4 most dramatic music tracks i could find, so its music from the davinci code, requiem of a dream, terminator 3 and titanic.

 
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28th May, 2009 at 12:59:35 -

You won't be able to sell it unless you change the character. I had a feeling you'd want to eventually though, since it's always better to have your own character on a cool idea.

 

  		
  		

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28th May, 2009 at 14:25:24 -

The easiest thing to do would be to change the name from Froggerbound to Frogbound or something.

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28th May, 2009 at 14:53:41 -

Bah, who wants to go the easy route?

 

  		
  		

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28th May, 2009 at 14:57:39 -

Looks pretty cool.

 
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28th May, 2009 at 19:05:57 -

Looks fun. You could rename it 'Toader' or something.

 
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28th May, 2009 at 19:10:36 -

I hate to be a downer, but there is no way Konami is going to let you do this if they find out about it. You would have to change the name, and even then, probably the character appearance. That said, this looks better than any of the Frogger games I've seen, but it's exactly the sort of thing that they'd put the screws on if they found out it was making money.

 
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28th May, 2009 at 21:22:48 -

Nice! this game looks cool!

 
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28th May, 2009 at 22:06:25 -

I remember the original two-game release of Frogger Bound, Temple and Dungeons... I don't remember if I downloaded both, but I thought it was cool. It inspired me to make my own Frogger engine, based on this game: http://www.mobygames.com/game/frogger_

I liked that game so much, but on OSs after ME, it didn't play any music.

 
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SoftWarewolf

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30th May, 2009 at 01:28:14 -

Well i changed the name to "Frog Bound" in my .mfa file now
lame, but its definitely the easiest way to go, should have thought about it before i registered the domain though, i just used that name for so many years now.. *sniff*

i also noticed on youtube some of the new frogger games have gameplay similar to mine now.. (different traps where you have to learn systems of movement)
most of my traps or more complex though, great fun
Even i made a little "yes!" scream when i finally finished my own last level yesterday and got to my credits

 
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30th May, 2009 at 01:38:05 -

I make "YES!" noises all the time when I finish a particularly big job.

I usually reward myself with good food. Like pizza. Domino's cheese pizza.

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30th May, 2009 at 13:30:54 -

It looks like a good game considering how difficult it looks. But, like the others, I suggest you should change the name.

 
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30th May, 2009 at 16:54:18 -

I dont think you will be in much trouble using a frogger in the game. I saw a kliker, a-coders I think who sold Pacman clones without getting in trouble for it. As long as you wont become a milionaire it will be fine.

 
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30th May, 2009 at 22:24:33 -

Wasn't this released back in 2003?

 
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SoftWarewolf

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1st June, 2009 at 12:54:25 -

yes this is a continuation of an old title
i have been working on this under the name "frogger bound 2" but i changed it around a bit, and frogger bound 1 had 2 releases, temple and dungeons.
so to avoid all confusion and issues its now just "frog bound" simple as that

i hope you wait for this game to release rather than looking up the old ones, the best levels from the old games are included here.
this game experience will be better

 
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13th June, 2009 at 08:01:04 -

Honestly I think it's more unique than Frogger, enough that it really would deserve it's own original character/name. Its already changed the setting, it's not crossing a road and a river etc.

 
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13th June, 2009 at 14:38:24 -


Originally Posted by Carlguy (HTL)
I dont think you will be in much trouble using a frogger in the game. I saw a kliker, a-coders I think who sold Pacman clones without getting in trouble for it. As long as you wont become a milionaire it will be fine.



I really wouldn't recommend it. I know a girl who sold games she downloads off the Internet at a shopping mall and still hasn't been arrested. And game companies are very trigger happy when they're finding an excuse to why they're losing money.

You could always try and change it from being a frog to something else. Game concepts get sold all the time, just look different. If it was a chicken and called Bound Chicken, I'm certain nobody would touch it

 
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13th June, 2009 at 15:08:16 -

You'd really be suprised, people making homebrew games for consoles or ROM hacks have been issued with "cease and desist" from game publishing/developing company's lawyers over fan games or games that use anything from a game company's intellectual property, name or graphics. And they weren't even commercial projects. I think those are predominantly because of graphics and overall being the same game but a sequel or a port for the system, but it's also happened with names/game concepts.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/12/square-enix-pulls-the-trigger-on-chrono-trigger-fan-projects/
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2005/04/story-of-ribbit.html
http://forum.freeadvice.com/copyrights-trademarks-39/cease-desist-letters-tetris-company-386711.html

Just some quick research I did.

I think in these cases you are most elligible for a cease and desist if you plan to make money off another company's intellectual property, but even then sometimes they don't like freeware/fan projects.

 
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15th June, 2009 at 03:00:00 -

Looks like Frogger took some steroids and is ready for a challenge harder than dodging traffic! Looks good, keep it up!

 
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