#103286 - ForeverNoobie - Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:59 pm
Hi. I want to get a game published for the DS one day. Before I start devloping my game and asking technical questions I wanted to find out what all it takes to get published for the DS. Some questions I have are
-Should I make a whole game then present it to publishers or just present a demo
-How do I get my game to publishers
-About how much money should I expect
-Do publishers have extreemly high standards
Really I want to know about all the steps involved in getting a game published for the DS. I was hoping you guys know of a good website that can answer all of my questions.
#103287 - OOPMan - Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:10 pm
Erm, I don't think you can get a homebrew game published...
NDS games have to be developed under license of Nintendo...
What you can do is write some demos and try to get employed by a company that develops NDS games. Getting your own personal title published, however, is extremely unlikely to happen.
With the PC there is a developing indy game scene that relies on internet-based distribution models and the like.
DS games, however, have to be produced under license and a lone developer is unlikely to be able to afford one of these...
For hints on getting into the games industry I seem to recall that Gamasutra provides some useful info...
To be honest I'd recommend getting comfortable with developing for the DS before trying to get published. Given the current state of the games industry, publishers are often unwilling to take major risks and thus any demo you produce has to be very impressive or fall into a easily milkable market category (Sports games, anyone?) to have a hope.
Ones first steps in NDS development, however, are unlikely to be enough to woo a publisher...
I would recommend that you first develop the skills and then, once comfortable with the platform, attempt to follow-up on getting published...
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#103293 - MaHe - Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:38 pm
First, actually develop a game, then think about publishing. If you have enough money & knowledge, you could publish the game on NoPass based GameCards ...
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#103309 - OOPMan - Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:55 pm
Hmmm, if you start churning out your own games on NoPass based cards Nintedo might notice though...
I seem to recall they haven't been ultra-friendly to people doing that kind of thing in the past, since it is reverse engineering...
Still, could work...
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#103330 - tepples - Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:27 pm
| OOPMan wrote: |
Hmmm, if you start churning out your own games on NoPass based cards Nintedo might notice though...
I seem to recall they haven't been ultra-friendly to people doing that kind of thing in the past, since it is reverse engineering... |
But since then, Sega v. Accolade and Lexmark v. Static Control have affirmed defenses allowing third parties to make and sell interoperable products. (The Tengen case, Atari Games v. Nintendo, doesn't apply unless you defraud the US Copyright Office to get plans in an attempt to shortcut the reverse engineering process.) To find previous topics about homebrew legality, search the board for the word accolade .
Another thing: Do not develop anything exclusively for ds.gba if you ever want to get published. The official DS and PSP kits are much more like libfat on a GBA Movie Player than like GBFS in a ds.gba.
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#103359 - OOPMan - Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:19 am
Yeah, thanks for that Tepples. I had a vague memory of that from an old column in Dr. Dobbs' Source Journal, but that was from a 1996 issue or something and it's long disappeared now :-) Since I couldn't remember the details, though, I didn't want to go posting potential crap...
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#103436 - zzo38computer - Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:10 pm
You can publish on NoPass cards, and they probably won't do anything about it (I mean, they really CAN'T do anything about it), but if you tell them to publish it for you they will tell you it is illegal and attempt to sue you
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